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...
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...
The Seattle Kraken have been on an incredible run since my last Monday musings on Dec. 18. They went 6-0-1 in that span and looked very similar to the 100-point team we saw last season. This group is confident and appears to be having a bit of fun out there. But what...
The Utah Jazz surprised us all with their unexpected reveal of the Seattle Kraken’s Winter Classic Jersey on Nov. 17. This got me thinking about an NBA team inevitably returning to Seattle and what it might mean for the Kraken. More specifically, I've been pondering...
The Seattle Kraken just played their best hockey of the season over the second half of this last homestand. Since the last Monday Musings, the team ended its eight-game losing streak and captured five of the possible six points available. This does not eliminate the...
Just when we thought it could not get any worse, it did. The Kraken are now 0-6-2 in their last eight games and have the second-longest losing streak in their brief history. They currently have 23 points on the season, which is the exact same number of points they had...
What a difference a week makes. Last Monday, it felt like the Seattle Kraken were on the brink of theoretical elimination from contending for a playoff spot, and now I am convinced they are a playoff team. Remember what I said about recency bias a few weeks ago? It...
Another Monday Musings and another sinking feeling about this team. The Kraken are now 0-4-1 on Saturday nights this season... We all knew the Saturday egg was coming against the Oilers, right? Edmonton was coming off a humiliating loss to the San Jose Sharks, and the...
Last week, I mentioned that if the Kraken were to get four out of a possible six points from the three games between then and now, it would resemble a playoff team. They got four out of six points by beating Tampa Bay and Nashville and losing to Calgary. So why do I...
I do my best to be objective and avoid being swayed too much by the emotional roller coaster that is the NHL season. When I evaluate the question of whether it is time to panic about the Seattle Kraken season to date, the logical part of me says it is not time to...
In the middle of last offseason, I went through a forecasting exercise to analyze the Seattle Kraken roster and evaluate the team's playoff chances after its offseason acquisitions. Historical data says that NHL teams with positive adjusted goal differential on the...
