GDT: Game 35: Seattle Kraken (15-17-2, 7-9-0 Away) vs Vegas Golden Knights (21-8-3, 12-3-0 Home) - 7:00 p.m. PT

[Cisse]

Four years in it is a time to get a quality guy for the face offs.

 

[kihei]

Depressing.

 

[Cisse]

Shit Defense and Seymour Goals watching pucks go by him.

You are not interested much in winning if that guy is starting in net.

Joey might be struggling at times of late but he is still better than #31.

Not a fan of Gru but both of those goals were gifted by our defense. Those two shots should have never even happened.

 

[Kat Predator]

Not a fan of Gru but both of those goals were gifted by our defense. Those two shots should have never even happened.

It takes a total team effort to fall apart that badly.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Brutal.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

shite

 

[Kat Predator]

Did Montour forget something behind the net?

 

[Toomany7pins]

Pull Gru already.

 

[Fuhrious]

That "power play" seems to have taken all the air out of their tires. They're just running around now.

 

[kihei]

It looks like it is going to be another long night. C'mon on guys, show some gumption.

 

[Kat Predator]

It's a turnover explosion.

And I don't mean apple.

 

[Fuhrious]

Gourde is going hard but that's about it.

And if I grit my teeth and inhale sharply every time they get an even remotely dangerous chance on Grubauer, I can't imagine how the players feel.

 

[Toomany7pins]

Not a fan of Gru but both of those goals were gifted by our defense. Those two shots should have never even happened.

Sometimes the goalie needs to bail out the defense as Gru rarely does that anymore. Guy is below average, and it’s not barely.

 

[Cisse]

No one seems to know which guy there is theirs to defend. All the time there is three of our guys circling around doing nothing useful.

 

[Fuhrious]

Just out of idle curiosity, I checked face-off win % rankings by team, all situations...

The Kraken are 24th in the league, VGK is 6th.

 

[Kat Predator]

No one seems to know which guy there is theirs to defend. All the time there is three of our guys circling around doing nothing useful.

You have to hold down the ice to keep it from floating away...

 

[Cisse]

You have to hold down the ice to keep it from floating away...

Well our guys are at least good at floating there.

 

[Fuhrious]

Expected goals .82

 

[Fuhrious]

Don't know that Kartye is who I would have pegged as the problem to earn a second healthy scratch

 

[The Marquis]

I never expected a win tonight, but I didn’t expect 2021 level garbage.

 

[The Marquis]

Don't know that Kartye is who I would have pegged as the problem to earn a second healthy scratch

I can think of at least 5 other players I’d have scratched before Tye.

 

[Fuhrious]

Man watching the dots for the Vegas goals on NHL.com is just...rough

They dump the puck in on the first goal and Cups sorta durdles around on the far side of the ice in the o-zone, only to belatedly decide to book it all the way across to the Kraken bench for a change as VGK is breaking out behind him, springing Kolesar who passes him on the way to the bench.

Why is Dunn in the corner chasing that puck instead of Larsson, who just stands there on the dasher and barely moves off the face-off?

Everyone is just running around willy nilly on the 3rd, it's hard to even single something out. Complete chaos.

 

[Cisse]

I wish someone would put Kakko to a skating courses. If he would work with his skating he would be a totally different player.

 

[kihei]

No one seems to know which guy there is theirs to defend. All the time there is three of our guys circling around doing nothing useful.

This is so spot on and I don't understand how it could happen to this degree. It's like our collective basic hockey intelligence is all shot to hell.

 

[Kat Predator]

I wish someone would put Kakko to a skating courses. If he would work with his skating he would be a totally different player.

Hopefully he'll get some coaching from Jessica at some point.