GDT: Game 14: Seattle Kraken(5-7-1) @ Colorado Avalanche(5-7-0) - 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET

[RayMartyniukTotems]

I have not dug too deep but it's top-5 seems pretty legit to me. Hagens, Martone, Misa could all be legit superstars in the league.

And they(scouts) are saying Matthew Schaefer is a top D-man and Russian Ilya Ryabkin top European and there are some Interesting Players from the WHL McQueen,Cootes,Reschny,Schmidt and QMJHL has some good ones in Desnoyers,Guite and Carbonneau while the Sawedes who seem to Develop very good players have Frondell,Eklund,Klingsell and Gastrin and Nothing has been said much of USNTDP D-man Logan Hensler and some Czechs are interesting too...all in all it has the potential to be a decent if not great draft at the Top 3-5 at least

Colorado needed a ref assist to seal this game

For f*** sakes

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

I think there will be some more wins if Dunn comes back.
Still, the team just isn't that good and unless they somehow find a way to score some goals the Kraken will be out of the playoff picture aaround the TDL.



That would mean Francis having to admit he was wrong and potentially selling below value.

Anyways the Kraken now have a six game home stand including games against Chicago, Columbus and Nashville.

Totally expect us to win more with Dunn. Said so myself, but that is what I want to avoid. This team needs to improve significantly. Game #23 is right before Thanksgiving. Game #36 is right before Xmas. We expect Dunn back by Game #19. If things are not trending in the right direction by Game #30, I think Francis needs to seriously start thinking about selling.

I was looking at Puckpedia and had a whole wall of text written up with ideas on how to buy/trade some vets out, but I trashed all that because I am struggling to see how we are better even next season. I know it's not all doom and gloom, and there already have been bright spots this season with Beniers, Daccord, Montour, and Evans. I expect Dunn to continue where he left off when he returns. McCann is our best forward and I don't think its even close. But having 1 good goalie, 3 good D-men will not get much done when our only legit top-6 forwards are McCann and Beniers. If it were up to me, I would seriously looking at trading or buying out as many from the list below.

Oleksiak
Grubauer
Burakovsky
Schwartz

Unfortunately multiple problems with that. We have limited buyout spots plus all of those players except maybe Schwartz (based on this season) likely have negative value. Retaining on every trade is not a legit option either because we need to find replacements and still are likely fairly close to the cap.

 

[Toomany7pins]

Two three game losing streaks already this season, and they start Grubauer over the only guy who’s kept games close?!

Bold strategy, Cotton.

They need to start throwing wrenches at Gru. If he can stop a wrench he can stop a puck.