Can we go home yet?
Here is what passes for highlights
Game Notes
- Your TOI Leader was Vince Dunn, who played 25:47
- The Kraken showed up to this game and, if you ignore that they basically spent the first five minutes in a delirium that doomed the game, actually played this game very well against the Boston Bruins! The problem is that they needed their power play to bail them out tonight against disastrous breakdowns of their structure that happened early and often, and there’s only so much you can do when you effectively start the game in a 2-0 hole. Valiantly they pressed forward, it just wasn’t enough.
- Special teams were what they were. They did get two goals on the power play!…they just let up one on the man-advantage as well. Just another bizarre part of this game.
- Ryan Winterton tuned up Alex Steeves but good, and it was a welcome reprieve from dragging one’s hand down their face. Turns out the big boy can really throw down when prompted! A surprising but welcome development to his skillset!
- Maybe the Kraken genuinely are better when they let the game come to them. This was a game in which all but three Seattle players finished their night in the black when it came to analytics, and three horrible gaffes ended up sinking them in the long run. Maybe they do need to play the game against conventional wisdom to win. What a weird thought.
- Matty’s year has been a series of steady positives so it really does come as like a genuine shock when he has a play that bad like the one that sprung Mark Kastelic for a goal. Hopefully that kind of careless turnover is once every 82 games for him.
- An .870 SV% only tells a part of the tale for poor Joey Daccord, who was victim to the kind of hideously unlucky bounce that only Philipp Grubauer used to get thrown his way. I don’t think he played the 1st and 3rd goal very well, but he was not having any better a night as any of the Skaters in front of him.
- Oh yeah, and congrats to Zdeno Chara on getting his number retired. Soviet super science experiments the world over are truly blessed to have you as their representative in sports.
Was there anything good about this game?
Sure!
- Chandler Stephenson and Eeli Tolvanen made up for early gaffes by scoring on the power play!
- Ryan Winterton put Alex Steeves in the Hurt Dimension! Good show from him!
- The Kraken draw penalties very well! 4 drawn calls tonight….now actually scoring on their man-advantages? They got about half of those…and then the other thing happened.
The Chartz, via NaturalStatTrick.com
This road trip finally reaches it’s end on Saturday, when the Kraken make their way to Utah to face the Mammoth.
That game begins at 2pm PST.
We’ll see you there, and as always
Keep Calm, and Post Zoidberg When We Win.