Post-Game Talk: Game 37: Seattle Kraken (15-19-2, 7-11-0 Away) at Vancouver Canucks (17-10-7, 7-7-5 Home) - 1:00 p.m. PT

[Fuhrious]

“Wake up babes”…

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[The Marquis]

Game starts at 1pm? That puts a wrinkle into my plans, but I’m already prepared in my jersey (reverse retro).

 

[Fuhrious]

I never got a Reverse Retro. Honestly with how little I get out my Winter Classic (maybe my favorite jersey I’ve ever owned) I’m kind of glad I didn’t. I think I’m just too old.

 

[Cisse]

We had a shot.

 

[The Marquis]

Siiiiiiiiigh. Gru does a good thing, then…. Still a goal. Unluckiest dude alive. Gambles too much.

 

[Cisse]

Is it too late? DEAR SANTA BRING US A GUY WHO WILL WIN FACE OFFS.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Sigh.

 

[The Marquis]

I never got a Reverse Retro. Honestly with how little I get out my Winter Classic (maybe my favorite jersey I’ve ever owned) I’m kind of glad I didn’t. I think I’m just too old.

Honestly, my least favorite Kraken sweater… the reverse retro. I get it, but it doesn’t make it good. It’s not. It’s the worst Kraken sweater I own.

I own a sweater from every NHL club, some multiple, except Dallas (was a North Stars fan in my youth, still bitter) and my favorite is also the Winter Classic Kraken. So nice.

I’d take the Kraken Reverse Retro above maybe 10% of my jerseys. It’s bad. But I gotta wear it. It’s better than at least 25% of the same set of reverse retros.

 

[The Marquis]

Is it too late? DEAR SANTA BRING US A GUY WHO WILL WIN FACE OFFS.

We have that guy but he’s dogshit in every other aspect of the game except “passing”. In short, worth 1/4 his 7 year contract.

 

[Fuhrious]

I haven't been watching it yet. Looks like they're playing okay according to the metrics sites like Moneypuck and NST? Saw the Boeser goal, just...unbelievably incredibly bad luck?

 

[Baszie]

We have that guy but he’s dogshit in every other aspect of the game except “passing”. In short, worth 1/4 his 7 year contract.

This season he isn't good at passing either. 1% WAR according to JFresh.

 

[The Marquis]

Yeahhhhhhh!!!!!! Mattttyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Finally! Look at his face! Dude is so happy!

 

[Fuhrious]

I'll take it

 

[The Marquis]

This season he isn't good at passing either. 1% WAR according to JFresh.

No metrics make this season look good. It’s all emotional attachment.

 

[Fuhrious]

This season he isn't good at passing either. 1% WAR according to JFresh.

He's objectively terrible and it was eminently foreseeable given his play in Vegas last season. In almost any other market in the league it'd be all the team media would be talking about and Francis would be getting skewered. Alas, the marketing experiment that is the Seattle Kraken.

 

[Fuhrious]

Man this powerplay STILL just sucks...

 

[Fuhrious]

Most Kraken'y powerplay ever...cycling the puck behind their own net a half dozen times because nobody has any ideas, until someone randomly dumps it and no Kraken players are there. Canucks get a shorthanded shot which is blocked, leading to their only legitimate PP chance in the last two games coming on the break.

ffs Grubauer...

 

[Fuhrious]

Oleksiak and Larsson can't even coordinate a simple breakout, turn the puck over, leading to Oleksiak taking a dumb penalty...

This team is just really hard to watch sometimes.

 

[The Marquis]

Anybody else f***ing depressed and hopeful?

 

[Fuhrious]

It's frustrating watching other teams play fundamental connected hockey in all three zones when it feels like the Kraken are just flinging passes to nowhere 99% of the time.

 

[Fuhrious]

Hey its nice to see Soucy playing well, I guess?

 

[The Marquis]

We collectively are fukt

 

[Cisse]

Our defense is Swiss cheese.

 

[Fuhrious]

 

[The Marquis]

Maybe we get a high pick in a shitty draft class