The Need to Knows
- The Time: 1pm PT
- The Place: Rogers [spins wheel] …Arena, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Place to Watch: KHN, KING-5, KONG
- Place to Listen: KJR 93.3-FM via Kraken Audio Network
- An Opposing Viewpoint: Nucks Misconduct
Know Your Enemy
- The Canucks are 17-10-7, which is good for 4th in the Pacific Division and 41 points. That also means they’re in the 2nd Wildcard spot.
- The Canucks’ leader in points is Quinn Hughes;
- The Canucks are dead even in goals-for and goals-against with 107. They play some high event hockey a few hours north.
- Their starting goalie is supposed to be the eternal rise of Thatcher Demko, were it not for Kevin Lankinen. Demko will be starting today, he has an .889 SV%.
Game Notes
Merry holidays! I think we all needed a minute to chill after a rough stretch to finish things out before the break.
The Kraken once again face their local foe in the Canucks, who have been enormously inconsistent over their last 10 games; thanks to the consistent problem of locker room fracas between the Vancouver players (or at least, that’s the vicious rumor going around) that is bleeding out onto the ice, or more accurately, their stars aren’t quite performing to the level expected of them, and that’s caused some real consternation in Canuckland; they only just recently broke a three game losing skid, but only just, against the San Jose Sharks.
Seattle meanwhile, needs to take ample advantage of their dysfunction because they’re still in the throes of an ugly losing streak. How do they do it? The Kraken will need to beat their inconsistent defense first, then hope that Lankinen, their goaltender, will not be willing to put his team on his back once again. They need to test him and test him hard.
After that? Just keep things clean, and for God’s sake treat puck possession in your own end as something to be carefully and quickly exited. They might be struggling recently but Vancouver has the necessary talent to make you pay for turnovers.
LETS GO KRAKEN. LETS GO SQUIDS!
We will be using this as a gamethread, by the by. Sorry!