The Need to Knows
- The Time: 5pm PST
- The Place: Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, Washington
- Place to Watch: KHN-affiliated stations, KONG
- Place to Listen: KJR 93.3-FM
- An Opposing Viewpoint: Nucks Misconduct
Game Preview!
Hello! If this is your first time at DJLR, or if this is your first-thousandth time at DJLR, welcome!
This season, we’re implementing a couple of changes. First of all, previews? They are now Preview and Gamethread. There really wasn’t much reason to have those two things be separate once we left our old stomping ground, and frankly it feels like extra work that doesn’t need to exist. Still! We hope you join us and enjoy the game alongside us, and of course…Post Zoidberg When We Win.
With that bit of business out of the way, Preseason is FINALLY HERE, and hockey season itself is just around the corner! Finally, our long nightmare is almost over!
And what we’re set with? Two teams with a lot to prove.
Seattle itself is very light on invites this training camp; taking stock of a prospect pool that is now much deeper than it was a mere few years ago, and the Canucks are trying to ensure just about everyone who’s watching that they are in fact Okay and Normal and Can Be Trusted again. Both sides have had short but eventful offseasons; the Kraken bringing in a new coach (again) and bringing in players like Mason Marchment and Frederick Gaudreau to inject some new perspectives into the team and hopefully bring success, and the Canucks…have done much the same. If Seattle’s 24-25 season was a massive disappointment, Vancouver’s 24-25 was an abject disaster; full of needless drama and injury, as well as the lingering concern of what exactly has been eating their best player; Elias Pettersson. We’re probably not going to get a hard answer on that tonight, as this early in pre-season, it’s almost a third game of the Prospect showcase; with a lineup full of players that will be getting very used to one another not just here in the preseason, but with Abbotsford and Coachella Valley as well. From those dramatic opening two games from the youths, it’s clear that unfinished business could still be very much on the menu.
Even if it isn’t necessarily a game worth 2 points in the standings, it’s still a great chance for the youths to find their footing, and maybe stick it to the Canucks early on. That’s always fun.
LET’S GO KRAKEN, LET’S GO SQUIDS!