Data Dump Saturday: 500 NHL Points
In his 369th career NHL game, Connor McDavid registered his 500th point to tie Sidney Crosby as the eighth-fastest player to reach that milestone. This week on Data Dump Saturday I plan to visualize McDavid’s scoring pace. I grabbed the game logs from a sample of...
Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft Projections from the Discover Central
This is the Sound Of Hockey's fourth and final installment of our updated projections for the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft. Here are links to the prior articles: Scotia North Division, Honda West Division, MassMutual East Division. Carolina Hurricanes Protected List...
Sound Of Hockey Podcast Ep. 125 – Goalie Gear Argument Corner
Things get quite feisty in Goalie Gear Corner this week's Sound Of Hockey Podcast, as John goes on thin ice after making asinine claims about the legitimacy of Darren's selections for the segment. That segment alone is worth the price of admission this week. It's a...
Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft projections for the MassMutual East
We are continuing the updates to our projections for the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft. Up next, the MassMutal East Division teams. If you missed the first two updates, the Scotia North Division can be found here and Honda West Division can be found here. Boston...
Games on the Radar for the Seattle Kraken fan – Volume 2
Despite a number of Covid-related postponements and delays caused by the run-of-the-mill, everyday blizzard in Texas, there are still a ton of NHL games on the radar this week and weekend that will be of interest to Seattle Kraken fans. Most notably are the outdoor...
Expansion Draft Protected Lists and Watchlist updates for the Honda West
We are updating our Expansion Draft protected lists and Seattle Kraken watchlists all week. Monday we went through the Scotia North Division, and today we step through the Honda West Division. Anaheim Ducks Ducks Protected List Watchlist Max Jones was a player who had...
Sound off on music selections for Seattle Kraken games at Climate Pledge Arena
Sound of Hockey’s writers make their selections for the best music to get Climate Pledge Arena rocking at Seattle Kraken games. What songs would you pick?
Protected Lists and Kraken Watchlist for the Scotia North
Loyal Sound Of Hockey readers will know that we have been publishing a synopsis on every NHL team participating in the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft this summer. We identified open issues facing the clubs, potential protected lists, and who the Kraken might keep an...
Data Dump Saturday: Nationalities and US-born players in the NHL
Every Saturday I plan on doing a data dump on something I find interesting around the hockey world. I will approach it with some knowledge, a theory, or based on something I heard in the media that I find worth exploring. Some things may be interesting to you, and...
Weekly One-Timers: Kraken partner news, hockey weather in Seattle
Finally, some hockey weather in Seattle! Man, imagine if it got cold enough here to freeze the ponds and lakes and create outdoor rinks in parks with just a simple flooding of an open field. Some of us would never come inside during the winter. Then again, even more...
