The Need to Knows
The Time: 5pm PT
The Place: Climate Pledge Arena in beautiful Seattle, Washington
Place to Watch: ROOT Northwest
Place to Listen: KJR 93.3FM
An Opposing Viewpoint: Arctic Ice Hockey
Know your Enemy
Game Preview
The Jets are a real interesting team. They’re not exactly a robust defensive team, but they’re still in the top 3 of Central Division squads thanks to a dynamite offense led by Blake Wheeler, Pierre-Luc Dubois, and Mark Scheifele, backed up by Connor Hellebuyck; once again playing like a finalist for the Vezina trophy.
But here’s the thing: if you can slice through that defense and solve Hellebuyck (or David Rittich, who is an infinitely easier solve), you can stall the Jets out something fierce. It’s only happened a few times so far this season, but they were not exactly close loses; by three or more each time. The key appears to be either scoring a bunch early, or keeping them from scoring any more than once in the first 40.
Will the Kraken knock the Jets out of the air? Or will the deep feel the bitter cold wrath of Winnipeg?
We’ll find out at 5!