Ep. 252 – Cocktail Hour (And We’re Launching a Patreon)
Interested in joining our new Patreon to support the Sound Of Hockey? Click here! -- The boys recorded this one on Friday night, which meant cracking open a couple cold ones and chopping it up before Kraken training camp kicks off this week. Lots of giggles are to be...
Prospects to watch in the Seattle Kraken system
With a new crop of prospects from the 2023 NHL Draft, the Seattle Kraken’s farm system is starting to take shape. The third draft class for Seattle was quite the haul, with 10 picks, four of which were selected in the top 60. Especially with some prospects from...
Preliminary analysis: Kraken playoff potential
Last offseason I did a series of articles that analyzed - at a high level - just how much the Kraken would need to improve to be contending for a playoff spot in their second season. At the time, the analysis was met with a bit of cynicism after such an abysmal...
Ranking every NHL-affiliated prospect
You’ve heard of a top-100 prospects list. But who needs those? At Sound Of Hockey we set out on a much more reckless endeavor: Let’s rank every skater prospect (both drafted and signed players) that meet two criteria entering the 2023-24 season: (1) younger than...
Ep. 251 – Robust End-of-Summer Mailbag
We're down to one or two more episodes before Seattle Kraken training camp opens, and the guys thought it was a great time to do one more offseason Mailbag. That makes up the bulk of this episode, as John, Darren, and Curtis dig into your many great questions. Other...
What the Kraken did/didn’t do this offseason, depth chart predictions
This Seattle Kraken offseason has been interestingly… UNinteresting. Fresh off a 100-point regular season, a first-round series win over the defending champion Colorado Avalanche, and a Game 7 loss to the Dallas Stars in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs,...
Ep. 250 – A Lot or Quite a Few?
Finally, some Kraken news has started trickling in again, now that August is in the rearview mirror. Joonas Donskoi announced his retirement, and Seattle signed Devin Shore to add depth and competition in training camp. John and Darren break those stories down and...
Digging into Seattle Kraken faceoff data
On last week's episode of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast, I forecasted that the biggest need for the Seattle Kraken early in the 2023-24 NHL season will be a right-handed center. This was not the first time I mentioned the need after the Kraken chose to not qualify the...
Joonas Donskoi retires, lingering questions before Kraken training camp
Before we get to the meat of this story, a bit of Kraken news, as Joonas Donskoi announced his retirement from professional hockey Sunday via his Instagram account. Donskoi, 31, cited multiple concussions in the post as the reason for his early departure from the...
Ep. 249 – A Puppy Decides
After another brief hiatus, Sound Of Hockey is back and battling to find hockey content in the month of August. Despite the lack of hockey news, John, Darren, and Curtis somehow manage to fill another episode. On this one, they use some old tricks like HYPE-o-thetical...
Ep. 248 – Spilling the Beans
The doldrums of summer are very much upon us, as very little has happened in the hockey world over the past couple weeks, especially for the Seattle Kraken. BUT, John and Darren are joined by Curtis once again, and together, the trio manage to stitch together a pretty...
Seattle Kraken takeaways from the World Junior Summer Showcase
From July 29 through Aug. 4, some of the best under-20 players from the United States, Finland, and Sweden met at the home of the U.S. National Team Development Program in Plymouth, Mich. Each team has the same goal: Winning the 2024 World Junior Championship starting...