[Long exasperated sigh.] At the official halfway point of the season, the Seattle Kraken are unofficially cooked. They showed some promise coming out of the holiday break with a shocking comeback win against the Vancouver Canucks, followed by a solid 60-minute victory...
The Seattle Kraken captured three points out of a possible six over the past week. However, after securing two points in their first game of the week against Utah, it feels like a missed opportunity to gain more. Following Tuesday's win over Utah, they came from...
Getting called up to the NHL is supposed to be a thrilling moment for a player who has worked his way through various levels of Czech pro leagues and then spent just over a season in the American Hockey League. With Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer temporarily out of...
“The Seattle Kraken won 2-1 against the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday” … is what I would be writing if we could erase the first six minutes of the game (and also pretend Leon Draisaitl’s empty-net goal didn’t happen, though it wouldn’t have in this revisionist version...
Welcome back to "Down on the Farm," your almost-weekly Sound Of Hockey Podcast segment in written form. We took last week off for the holidays, but we're back this week to talk about an event that reminds us of this joyful season—the World Junior Championship. We'll...
The Komeback Kraken almost did it again to the Vancouver Canucks on Friday, this time rallying from two goals down to send the game to overtime before falling in a shootout for a 4-3 final. The loss came two games after Seattle overcame a three-goal deficit in...
Here’s an idea for a new buddy movie script: two Finnish wingers who crossed paths in their teenage years land on the same NHL team thanks to separate shrewd acquisitions by a veteran general manager. They quickly strike up a friendship, and the player who has been...
Much is made of the NHL season being a long, arduous grind for players, who battle on the ice 82 times in a regular season (assuming they stay healthy) and sometimes play even longer if their team qualifies for the playoffs. And while they’ll almost universally tell...
Mel Brooks tried to warn the Utah Hockey Club with his portrayal of the great Yogurt in the 1987 spoof masterpiece, Spaceballs, about underestimating the power of the Schwartz. But his warnings went unheeded Monday, as the Seattle Kraken used Jaden Schwartz’s red-hot...
