SEATTLE – After being selected by the Seattle Kraken in the Expansion Draft, forward Kole Lind began preparing for the season as he usually would. Little did he know that he would soon go viral. Lind, 22, had posted a video of him working out by jumping onto a giant tire and people took notice.
Box jumps, or in this case tire jumps, are commonplace among athletes, but Lind added a flair to his. He did it wearing skates.
“It’s something that my trainer came up with this summer,” Lind said after Thursday’s practice at the Kraken Community Iceplex. “I decided to just get freaky with it, I guess. We were doing box jumps and stuff like that. We usually do tire jumps in our shoes, so I just wanted to try it and I landed it, so I was pretty happy.”
The video made the rounds on the internet and spread outside the hockey world.
Reactions to it were a mix of awe and some questioning how safe that workout was. Self-proclaimed internet experts were sure it would result in injury.
“It was a lot of mixed emotions from what I heard,” Lind said. “But I did it like five times. I landed every single time. So, you know, 100% ratio of getting it done so the safety’s there.”
On the ice, Lind is in camp with the Kraken trying to earn a spot on Seattle’s roster.
Kole Lind had a frustrating season last year
He’s coming off a frustrating season with Vancouver. He began the year in the AHL with the Utica Comments and got off to a blistering start, scoring five goals and eight points over his first eight games of the season.
Then he suffered what he described as a “freak” injury.
“I got a high stick and broke my nose in a place where I wasn’t able to play,” Lind said. “Vancouver called me up and I did my recovery through there and as soon as I was skating for maybe three or four days, we got shut down again for the big COVID outbreak. It’s really tough to stay in a rhythm through all that.”
Lind was in the NHL, on the taxi squad, but wasn’t playing.
Skating with the team is one thing but not being able to play hurts. The games are where young players like Lind benefit the most.
“You cannot replicate it at all,” Lind added. “I think you ask anyone in professional hockey, there’s nothing replicated, even in summer training. You try to do whatever you can, but there’s nothing like playing an actual hockey game for sure.”
Lind played seven games with the Canucks down the stretch and ended the season with a total of 15 games between the AHL and the NHL.
All year long he was talked about as a player that for sure would be protected by the Canucks. He was one of Vancouver’s top prospects, he’s young, and he has talent. That all changed the day before NHL teams had to submit their protected lists. Vancouver made a few moves, most notably acquiring a forward in Jason Dickinson from Dallas, and suddenly Lind was on the block.
Once exposed, the Kraken jumped and selected Lind, something that he says is an “honor”.
“It was bittersweet because at the same time (Vancouver) brings you up and you’ve been with them the whole time,” Lind said. “There’s a lot of connections that way but it is nice to get the newest of starts you can get. It’s so fresh here, you know, new team, new organization. Everything about it is awesome.”
Lind looking to stick with Kraken
Lind is still young, and his best hockey may still be in front of him.
He’s in a fight to crack a Seattle roster that is deep with forwards, many of which have more NHL experience under their belts. Like all players, making the NHL roster is goal number one but at the end of the day, Lind wants to play a full season.
“Obviously I want to be here, but you know there’s a lot of different things that go into it,” Lind adds. “I’m just gonna do whatever I can, day to day to stay positive and try to do whatever I can to be an NHLer every day in my future.”
When he does play for the Kraken in Seattle, Lind knows what to expect from the locals.
Prior to being drafted by the Canucks in the second round of the 2017 NHL Draft he played in the Western Hockey League for the Kelowna Rockets. During his tenure with the Rockets, he played big playoff games in Seattle against the Thunderbirds.
He’s heard the roar and will be working to hear it again, this time in the NHL.
“I’ve had a couple tough encounters with the crowds out here in Seattle, that’s for sure. So maybe I’ll be on the other side.”
Apparently having your top players in the lineup is helpful after all. On Tuesday, Seattle head coach Dave Hakstol held Jared McCann, Jordan Eberle, Jaden Schwartz, Mark Giordano, and Philipp Grubauer out of the lineup—standard practice for any team in preseason—and the result was unsurprisingly a 6-0 drubbing at the hands of Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers. On Wednesday, the Kraken dressed those top players, and the result was a good, even battle with the Calgary Flames that ended in a 4-3 shootout win for Seattle.
Here are our takeaways from the Kraken’s third preseason game.
Takeaway #1: Seattle might have something cooking with its top line
So about that Eberle-McCann-Schwartz line…
There’s some obvious chemistry forming here, which bodes well for the Kraken. When the top-scoring trio was on the ice Wednesday, the pace and the passing seemed to ratchet up a notch and went up even higher when they got out there at the same time as the top defensive pairing of Giordano and Adam Larsson.
On the first goal, just three minutes into the game, Cale Fleury made a nice stretch pass from the defensive zone to Schwartz near the far blue line. Schwartz, while falling, found McCann who carried it into the zone, then dished to Giordano who was streaking into the slot. Giordano slipped one through the wickets of Dan Vladar, and the home Calgary faithful went giddy for their beloved Gio.
It was a pretty tic-tac-toe passing play that allowed Seattle to go from regrouping in its own zone to scoring at the other end in about five seconds.
In the third period, with the game level at two goals apiece and the teams playing at four-on-four, Eberle picked off an errant Michael Stone pass behind Calgary’s goal line and immediately found an open Schwartz in the slot, who buried his second of the game. That sequence took two seconds.
There was almost a third goal by Schwartz, which also would have been assisted by Eberle, but Vladar robbed Schwartz of the hat trick with a desperation toe save.
There’s bound to be some line shuffling throughout the course of the season, but Hakstol has to like what he has seen in two games from McCann, Eberle, and Schwartz. It will be interesting to watch if he continues to play them together for these last three preseason games—when they’re all in the lineup, that is—or if he moves any of them around to see how the chemistry might look with other mixes.
Takeaway #2: Seattle could use some work on three-on-three
The game in general looked a bit sloppy Wednesday, as is often the case in contests that feature just 43 combined shots on goal between the two teams. When we got to three-on-three overtime, we were expecting to see the high-octane, flowing brand of hockey that we’ve become accustomed to in past regular seasons.
That isn’t what we got, and it was a reminder that although we are a full week into training camp, the Kraken have really only had a few days of practice. And with the squad split into two groups, Hakstol and his staff have spent very little time on the finer details like special teams and three-on-three.
It’s also a stark reminder that Seattle has a unique challenge in that it has never done any of this before. Hakstol has maintained that every year poses similar challenges, because every team is—in a way—starting over and building something from scratch. But other teams have the luxury of familiarity between most of the players and usually between the players and the coaches. The Kraken have no such luxuries, so they will need to continue to ramp up quickly as we approach opening night just 12 days from now.
Takeaway #3: Don’t cross check guys
In yesterday’s NHL, cross checking was easily the most frequently committed offense that got penalized with the least frequency. Did that make sense? What I’m trying to say is that players got away with cross checking all the time as recently as last season.
The NHL has decided to crack down on cross checking this season, and we’ve already seen it called a handful of times in the Kraken’s three preseason games, including once for each team in Wednesday’s game.
The change evokes memories of the period after the NHL returned from the 2004-05 lockout and decided that the clutch-and-grab era was officially over. Suddenly every stick infraction made through the neutral zone—remember, in the clutch-and-grab era, there was a stick infraction made on every trip through the neutral zone—was penalized.
History has proven that players will eventually adjust and stop cross checking guys in the lower back when they’re already down on the ice or hitting them so hard with the shaft of the stick that they topple over. But that will take time, so for now, expect a lot more of these calls to be made.
Darren Brown is the Chief Content Officer at Sound Of Hockey and the host, producer, and editor of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast. He is an inconsistent beer league goalie who believes that five players have to make a mistake before the puck gets to him. Follow him on Twitter @DarrenFunBrown or email darren@soundofhockey.com.
After things got ugly for the Seattle Kraken last night in Edmonton, they will look to have a preseason version of a bounceback tonight against the Flames in Calgary. The whole team went on this trip to Alberta, so if they didn’t dress for last night’s game, they are dressed tonight, except for Alex Wennberg, whose fiancée just had a baby, and Yanni Gourde and Colin Blackwell who are injured.
Jaden Schwartz, Jared McCann, and Jordan Eberle all slide back in tonight after sitting in Edmonton. That trio made up Seattle’s top line on Sunday in Spokane, and all three were important pieces of the win, with McCann looking dominant at times.
Also back in the lineup are starting goalie Philipp Grubauer and top defenseman Mark Giordano, who will play his first “game” back in Calgary after his 15-year run there came to an end at the Expansion Draft. There should be some conversation happening on the ice between Giordano and his former mates.
Former Flames captain Mark Giordano ahead of the Kraken’s preseason game in Calgary tonight on how he hopes Flames fans remember him. pic.twitter.com/NZwTYMo9aM
We also will see the preseason debuts of Cale Fleury and rookie Jacob Melanson.
The Flames have a decent lineup going, with Matthew Tkachuk, Johnny Gaudreau, and Mikael Backlund all expected to play, among others.
How to watch
This game will again be aired on KONG. We heard that some folks successfully watched Tuesday’s game on the Edmonton Oilers’ website, and the Flames have indicated that they will be streaming tonight’s game on their site. That link does not indicate any restrictions or blackouts, so it’s worth a try if you don’t have a way to get the game locally on TV.
Projected lineup
Here is our projected Kraken lineup. Being that morning skate was in Calgary (and we are not in Calgary), the lines are a bit of a guess, but the players included are correct.
Well, the Kraken can’t win ’em all. The Kraken especially can’t win ’em all when they take their entire top scoring line out, two of their top-four defensemen, and their top goalie, and send out whatever’s left to try to stop Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and essentially the entire regular NHL lineup of the Edmonton Oilers.
On Sunday, the Kraken dressed most of their veterans to take on an undermanned and very youthful group of Canucks. Seattle took advantage, looked good, and skated to a 5-3 win. As we said after that game, the result probably should have been taken with a grain of salt, based on which players had participated.
When we saw who was playing for Edmonton on Tuesday compared with who was playing for Seattle, we knew it had the makings of a bloodbath. We were right, but again, the result should be taken with a grain of salt.
Here’s what we took away from Seattle’s shellacking at the hands of McDavid and the Oilers.
Takeaway #1: Connor McDavid is good
Don’t worry, we’ll talk more about the Kraken, but the overarching story of Tuesday’s game was the otherworldly play of McDavid, who predictably drove the bus for the Oilers.
Have you seen this guy? Have you heard about this guy? Watching McDavid on Tuesday was both awe inspiring and terrifying at the same time. The way he was able to navigate the offensive zone doing essentially whatever he wanted was a bit concerning to watch from a Seattle perspective.
16 minutes into the first period, he slipped the puck around Nathan Bastian in a way that made the Kraken forward look a bit like a pylon. He didn’t convert on that play, but seconds later McDavid got the puck back and found new teammate Zach Hyman standing wide open on the doorstep. All Hyman had to do was put his stick on the ice, and McDavid found it for one of the easiest goals of Hyman’s career.
McDavid ended the night with a goal, two assists, three shots on goal, and several jaw-dropping moments.
Takeaway #2: Ryker Evans shows promise
It can be hard to find bright spots in a 6-0 loss, but there were a few for the Kraken. One sliver of silver lining (wow, “sliver” and “silver” are very similar-looking words, aren’t they?) was the play of 19-year-old defenseman Ryker Evans.
Evans, the second-round pick of the Kraken in this summer’s NHL Entry Draft, turned some heads in Saturday’s intra-squad scrimmage. That day, he had a few impressive offensive plays, including one where he toe-dragged around a defender off the rush and nearly scored.
We asked Hakstol if any young players made an impression in today’s scrimmage. He called out Ryker Evans, saying he looked like he “belonged” out there.
Couldn’t agree more. The youngster looked very smooth, showed his impressive offensive skill a couple times. pic.twitter.com/BGYQ2oyxnL
On Tuesday in Edmonton, Evans was back at it, looking smooth and poised on an NHL stage facing some of the best players in the world. He was officially credited with a shot on goal, two blocked shots, and two hits in 20:39 of ice time, significantly more time than we expected him to get.
At this stage, we still fully anticipate that Evans will be returned to the Regina Pats of the WHL, and as does he. But he has shown very well in this training camp and will almost certainly be knocking on the NHL door next season.
Takeaway #3: Joey Daccord impresses in small sample size
The other positive for the Kraken on Tuesday was netminder Joey Daccord, who took over for Chris Driedger in the third period when the score was already 5-0. There were a couple odd plays with the puck by Daccord, but aside from that, he looked rock solid in his Kraken preseason debut, turning away nine of 10 shots and allowing just one goal in five rounds of the just-for-laughs shootout that followed the game.
There were two stops that stuck out. The first was when Kyle Turris received a pass just a few feet outside the crease to Daccord’s left. For a moment, it looked like a sure goal for Turris, but Daccord slid across in plenty of time and gloved the shot, quickly taking away every inch of the open net that Turris had just been seeing.
The second was when McDavid flew into the zone, swooping low to cut around a defender and trying to take the puck across the goalmouth to tuck it around Daccord on the stickside. Daccord read it perfectly and threw a pokecheck that took the puck right off the stick of the best player in the world. It was a gutsy and perfectly executed play by Daccord.
Like Evans, we do not expect Daccord, a friend of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast, to be on the Kraken roster when they break camp. Assuming no injuries to Philipp Grubauer or Driedger, Daccord is Charlotte bound. Still, it’s great to see that the third goalie appears to be NHL ready in case something comes up that presses him into action.
Darren Brown is the Chief Content Officer at Sound Of Hockey and the host, producer, and editor of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast. He is an inconsistent beer league goalie who believes that five players have to make a mistake before the puck gets to him. Follow him on Twitter @DarrenFunBrown or email darren@soundofhockey.com.
The Kraken are north of the border for the first time tonight for the first of back-to-back games against the Oilers and Flames. Edmonton’s lineup will be a cut above what Seattle saw from Vancouver on Sunday, as Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl will be playing, among many other regular NHLers.
Seattle will have quite a few of their regulars back in the lineup as well, with some youngsters like Ryker Evans and Luke Henman mixing in. Chris Driedger will get at least two periods, according to Dave Hakstol, and Joey Daccord will finish things out. The entire team (except Colin Blackwell, who is day-to-day with a lower-body injury) is on the trip, since many who are not dressed tonight will play tomorrow.
Coach Dave Hakstol on matching up (or not) against McDavid and Draisaitl tonight.
The game is airing on KONG, which is not available on a lot of streaming services. However, it is over the airwaves, so if you don’t have cable but you have an antenna, you should be able to get it.
By the way, we fixed the comment section so it won’t make us approve your comments anymore. So chat away about the game below, but be please be nice to each other!
Hello from downtown Spokane, where the Kraken defeated a bunch of guys in Canucks sweaters (there’s a reason I’m not simply calling them “the Canucks”) 5-3 in Seattle’s first-ever preseason game at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. Although the outcome was moot, it was a night that will live on in the hearts and minds of Kraken fans everywhere, especially for those in the sellout crowd of 10,208.
I’ll speak from personal experience here. I did not expect to get choked up as the puck dropped and fans started chanting, “Let’s go, Kraken!” But get choked up I did. There were a lot of emotions that came rushing in at that very moment, as the gravity of it all suddenly hit home.
The Expansion Draft was neat. Training camp has been great. But this was different. This was real hockey being played by Seattle’s shiny new NHL team, and thankfully, the rest of the night did not disappoint.
Whoa. Actual chills. We are playing hockey. The fans are chanting, "Let's go Kraken!" Holy guacamole.
Though it’s right to feel optimistic after the victory, expectations should be managed a bit. The Kraken looked like a much better team on Sunday, but the caveat is that they also dressed the majority of what will certainly be their regular lineup when the season gets underway. Vancouver, on the other hand, trotted out quite a few young players and prospects, including two goalies who are unlikely to crack an NHL roster any time soon.
Here are our takeaways from Seattle’s preseason-opening win Sunday night in Spokane.
Takeaway #1: The depth players mean business
At the onset of training camp, I delved into which Kraken players I thought should be carefully monitored by fans. I had Ryan Donato and Riley Sheahan as probables for making the roster but perhaps challenging one another for playing time. Meanwhile, I surmised Morgan Geekie would really have to prove himself in camp just to make the big club on opening night.
Lo and behold, all three found themselves on the scoresheet Sunday, with Geekie notching two goals (his first was a strange and lucky gift, courtesy of Vancouver), and Sheahan and Donato getting one apiece.
But it wasn’t just about the goals. Those guys were involved offensively seemingly all night. Geekie easily could have had a couple more, as could Donato. It’s still very early, but if training camp were to end this week, it would be nearly impossible to leave any of those three in the press box or off the initial roster. If things continue this way, head coach Dave Hakstol is going to have some extremely tough decisions on his hands over the next couple weeks.
Dave Hakstol on the sentiment in the room, performances of some individuals tonight: pic.twitter.com/O97YXksGcL
At the Expansion Draft in July, Brandon Tanev — who had previously played with McCann in Pittsburgh — confidently stated that not only was Seattle getting a great guy, it was getting a great player as well.
McCann was slotted on the top line with Jordan Eberle and Jaden Schwartz and came out with guns ablaze on Sunday, driving offensive zone time and creating scoring chance after scoring chance.
In the first period, he hit the post on Seattle’s first power play and later had two consecutive open looks from right on the doorstep but was robbed twice by Latvian man of mystery Arturs Silevs.
Jared McCann was outstanding in the Kraken’s win over the Canucks. (Photo Brian Liesse)
In the second, McCann rifled a shot from the left halfwall that caught Silevs up high and caused the Canucks netminder to delay the game while he recovered. Seconds later, with Seattle on the power play, McCann took a similar shot from the left face-off dot that found it’s way just under the bar and leveled the score at 2-2.
After the game, McCann said he recognizes general manager Ron Francis is giving the players a great opportunity here, and he plans to “take full advantage of it.” Sunday was a great start toward proving that to the Kraken brass.
By the way, since I mentioned Brandon Tanev in this takeaway, we do need to point out that he did one of the funniest things in the history of post-game media scrums on Sunday:
half-naked brandon tanev sneaking past jack rathbone's post-game interview is the highlight of the day pic.twitter.com/L2KZBZPdEg
Honestly, that’s some pretty quick thinking to use the curtain in that way to slide past. He’s like the world’s worst magician doing the world’s worst disappearing act.
Takeaway #3: Hints at what Kraken Game Ops department has up its sleeve
Though this game was played in a Western Hockey League building — the Spokane Chiefs’ home building, there was definitely an NHL feel to the overall presentation. The videos played throughout were funny, thoughtful, and well produced. My own personal favorite piece of content was when the voice of Freddie Mercury rang through Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, getting the crowd to sing back with several variations of “Day-o!”
Though the voice heard was that of the legendary Queen frontman performing at Live Aid from Wembley in 1985, the image on the video board was that of an animated blowfish. It reminded us once again that we are in the world of the Kraken, which exists solely at the bottom of the sea. There, the inhabitants are fish that sound exactly like Freddie Mercury.
We also saw the likes of SpongeBob and Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory requesting additional noise from the fans, and we heard several options for goal songs during the course of the night. I also loved hearing a little riff from Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Posse on Broadway,” which played under and just after the announcement of the first goal.
Without the bells and whistles of the state-of-the-art Climate Pledge Arena, the Kraken put on a really good show in Spokane. I, for one, cannot wait to see how the finished product will look.
Darren Brown is the Chief Content Officer at Sound Of Hockey and the host, producer, and editor of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast. He is an inconsistent beer league goalie who believes that five players have to make a mistake before the puck gets to him. Follow him on Twitter @DarrenFunBrown or email darren@soundofhockey.com.
SPOKANE – The game didn’t count in the standings, and to drive that point home the NHL didn’t send a statistician to tally who scored the goals. But to the Seattle Kraken franchise, its players, and fans, the game meant everything. It meant that NHL hockey was here.
Over 10,000 fans packed into the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Sunday and cheered every move the Kraken made during a 5-3 preseason win over their would-be rivals, the Vancouver Canucks. Winning felt like icing on the cake.
Playing the game meant the Kraken had won no matter the final score.
“It was unbelievable to be honest,” Kraken forward Ryan Donato said. “I’m from the East Coast, so I’ve never been out here, and it just goes to show how exciting hockey is and how much it’s growing. Coming in here and seeing all the Kraken jerseys and how everything’s grown so fast, it’s truly awesome to be a part of it.”
Donato scored a power-play goal Sunday – Seattle would score three power-play goals despite little to no work on special teams during training camp – and his line with center Morgan Geekie and winger Joonas Donskoi continued to play well.
They were in the Canucks zone throughout the night and helped the Kraken earn nine of the game’s first 10 shots. As efficient as they were, they weren’t the only line to produce.
Jared McCann scored a goal and once again was put together with Jordan Eberle and Jaden Schwartz.
“We have the day off tomorrow, we’ll go back and re-evaluate that and look at the changes that we want to make and some of the new combinations that we want to look at,” Hakstol said. “There are things there that we liked. If we do go away from them to look at something different, we can always come back to that combination. But that’s something we have to really look at closely and we’ll discuss and talk about tonight and tomorrow through the day off.”
Lots of promise
The Kraken showed off what could be possible in the coming season.
While the Canucks iced a younger roster, they still stole their way to a 2-0 lead in the first period. The scores came against the flow of play and were of the odd variety.
The first goal came just after a Seattle power play had expired when Jack Rathbone came out of the box to pick up a loose puck and beat goalie Philipp Grubauer. Shortly after, Vancouver’s Brock Boeser flung the puck into traffic, and it struck a Seattle defender and deflected in.
Just like that, Seattle’s early work had been erased.
Seattle came out in the second period and stuck to the game plan. Riley Sheahan would convert a crafty pass from behind the net by Nathan Bastian to cut into the Vancouver lead. He also solidified himself as the answer to a future niche and borderline minutiae trivia question.
Seattle’s Jared McCann tries to score during the Kraken’s 5-3 preaseason win Sunday. (Brian Liesse photo)
McCann would get the game square when he somehow found an opening on the short side of Vancouver goalie Arturs Silovs’ position in the net.
“(You have to) just move the puck quicker,” McCann said. “I feel like we had to get them running around a little bit. They’re a hard forechecking team, they like to get on the puck a lot. Just make them skate and get tired and open up lanes for you.”
The Canucks would tie the game in the second period, but Geekie would score twice in the third to put the game away.
A moment in Seattle hockey history
It was a successful night for the Kraken on the ice and off.
Winning is nice, but the launch of the Kraken experience felt bigger. The wait was over and instead of debating about arena sites and parking, we can now talk about the Kraken forecheck that pinned Vancouver in its own zone for most of the night.
A full building four hours away from the Kraken’s home was impressive and proved this Kraken squad is in fact Washington’s team.
“To come here to Spokane and play in front of this kind of a crowd on night number one of the exhibition season was awesome,” Hakstol said. “You know, the Spokane Chiefs hosting us and taking care of both teams in this building was a great way to start the exhibition season.”
After a day off Monday the Kraken will next travel to Edmonton to play preseason game two against the Oilers on Tuesday.
The time has come! Here is a quick pre-game video from our own Andy Eide and Darren Brown, as well as the projected Seattle Kraken lineup as they get set to take on the Vancouver Canucks.
We’re hoping you’ll use the comments section on this page as your landing page to communicate with your fellow Kraken community members during the game.
Ok, so the thing about this latest episode of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast is that it was recorded after 10PM on the first day of the first-ever Seattle Kraken training camp. Andy and Darren had been plugging away at content pretty much all day long, so by the time they got to record this show with John, things were bound to go off the rails.
And off the rails they went.
The result is multiple moments that should make you audibly giggle, as the guys bring you up to speed on what has been happening at the Kraken Community Iceplex and beyond in the Kraken hockeysphere.
Here are some of the topics covered this week:
Yanni Gourde is ahead of schedule for returning to play
We aren’t promising that this will happen every week, but for Slapsh0t11, here are the three tweets referenced: Andy’s tweet, John’s tweet, Darren’s tweet.
Ok, so here’s the thing about this latest episode of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast… It was recorded after 10PM on the first day of the first-ever Seattle Kraken training camp. Andy and Darren had been plugging away at content pretty much all day long, so by the time they got to record this show, things were bound to go off the rails.
And off the rails they went.
The result is multiple moments that should make you audibly giggle, as the guys bring you up to speed on what has been happening at the Kraken Community Iceplex and beyond in the Kraken hockeysphere.
Here are some of the topics covered this week:
Yanni Gourde is ahead of schedule for returning to play
We aren’t promising that this will happen every week, but for Slapsh0t11, here are the three tweets referenced: Andy’s tweet, John’s tweet, Darren’s tweet.
