The Seattle Kraken can learn some major lessons from the Carolina Hurricanes, who completed a historic run through the playoffs and lifted Lord Stanley’s Cup as the NHL’s best team on Sunday. Led by a forward-thinking scientist/blogger/stathlete-turned-general...
Welcome to "Down on the Farm," your weekly Seattle Kraken prospects update. We are at the finish line, folks. No drafted or signed Kraken player remains active in this 2025-26 hockey season. That means it's almost time for the "Down on the Farm" offseason hiatus. I...
While there hasn't been much news on the Seattle Kraken front, that doesn't stop the guys from having a robust conversation about the team and where they might look to improve this offseason. Plus, lots of talk about the Seattle Torrent and who they chose to...
Yesterday, we got official confirmation that in "Phase 1" of the PWHL offseason, the Seattle Torrent protected three players from the unfolding expansion process: center Alex Carpenter, defenseman Anna Wilgren, and goaltender Hannah Murphy. (For an overview on how the...
The Kraken enter the offseason with cap space, draft capital and a strong prospect pool. But instead of chasing a quick fix, Seattle should focus on building a clearer path toward late-2020s contention.
News has been trickling out for weeks about the upcoming PWHL expansion draft, which will stock the four new teams joining the league this offseason. Rather than walk through every rule and sub‑rule of the process, I’m focusing on how this could realistically play out...
Welcome to "Down on the Farm," your weekly Seattle Kraken prospects update. In this quick holiday weekend edition, we'll get you up to date on a couple of Seattle Kraken prospects playing in the Memorial Cup, one signing his entry-level contract with the Seattle...
After much hemming and hawing and retrospection, both from the Kraken and from our team here at Sound Of Hockey, we’re ready to put the 2025-26 team’s late-season downfall behind us and begin looking ahead at how Seattle can avoid such a collapse in the future. The...
Welcome to "Down on the Farm," your weekly Seattle Kraken prospects update. In this week’s column, we’ll bring you on the ice in Coachella Valley, where Jake O'Brien made his professional debut this week. We'll also get you up to date on Julius Miettinen's dominant...
Welcome to our annual data-driven analysis of the top prospects in the 2026 NHL Draft. We're digging deep, giving you a watchlist of 200 first-time eligible and 100 re-entry skaters to follow as the draft approaches. What is the data-only watchlist? The watchlist is...
The Seattle Kraken’s season had three distinct phases: a promising start, a pre-Olympic surge and a post-break collapse. Here is what the data shows.
