We have officially reached the All-Star break/bye week.The Seattle Kraken are sitting fifth in the Pacific Division and two points behind the St. Louis Blues for the last playoff spot. We figured now would be a fine time for a good, old fashioned Sound Of Hockey...
We’re honestly not sure if it was great timing or terrible timing for Elmo to ask us how we were doing. https://twitter.com/sound_hockey/status/1752573223055843636?s=20 Tuesday was a tough night for Kraken fans, who watched their team mostly dominate the first 40...
This is Part II of What the Kraken can do with their pending unrestricted free agents. Part I can be found here. In Part I, we reviewed the Seattle's pending UFA's that are over 30 years old and outlined what can be done with each of the four players. For Part II, we...
Most of my "Musings" do not come to me until the final Kraken game has been played for the week, so with a Sunday-night game against Toronto this week, I'm required to push the Monday Musings to Tuesday. For all of you who were refreshing your browser on Monday...
The Kraken are inching closer to a major inflection point in their season, when their front office will need to decide which players with expiring (or soon to expire) contracts should be kept and which ones should be moved on to new teams. As Seattle has floundered...
As the first period of the 2024 Winter Classic wound down, Kraken fans everywhere were content–basking in rays of sunshine on a beautiful day for outdoor hockey and awash in the afterglow of Eeli Tolvanen’s go-ahead deflection goal that made it 1-0. With two minutes...
Welcome to the halfway mark for the Seattle Kraken's 2023-24 season. The Kraken have now played 41 games, so we thought it would be a good idea to give an overview of what has transpired so far, what the team is doing well, and what it can improve. Season overview...
One late-November afternoon, I was perusing HockeyViz–as I am wont to do. I almost always come away having learned something new about a player, a team, or how NHL hockey is played, and that is what happened on that day. Parsing through Joey Daccord’s data, I found...
Sunday marks a team travel day for the Seattle Kraken, as they wing their way to upstate New York for the start of a two-week, six-game expedition that will zig zag them through Buffalo, Washington, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and New York (Rangers), before a strange...
Jump to the Monthly scorecard that will be updated monthly until the end of the season. The Seattle Kraken are on a team-record 10-game streak with at least a point in the standings. They've gone 8-0-2 in that stretch, good for 18 out of a possible 20 points,...
Before turning their season around and rattling off a nine-game point streak (7-0-2) and five-game winning streak, the Seattle Kraken temporarily sunk far out of the playoff picture with a miserable eight-game stretch from Nov. 24 through Dec. 10. During that time,...
Here we go! The 2024 Discover NHL Winter Classic festivities officially start Sunday, so we thought it was a good time to throw together a rundown of things you should know for this massive tentpole event being hosted on the West Coast for the first time ever. ...
