Game 50: Pittsburgh Penguins(20-22-8) @ Seattle Kraken(21-25-3) 1:00 p.m. PST/4:00 p.m. ET

[RainyCityHockey]

Ladies and Gentleman, it's time, time for the battle of craptastics betweend the, formerly good, Pittsburgh Penguins and your Seattle "we'd love to be mid" Kraken.
We have two exciting teams trying to win a game of hockey doing hockey things and stuff.

In order to win the Kraken need to:

1) Score more goals
Not sure how, not sure how that's going to happen but they've got to do it in order to win a game.

2) Allow less goals
Well, that other team is awful too and might help. Still, you never know with the fantastic defensive efforts of the foward group or those old dudes Crosby and Malkin maybe going off.

3) No idea
Tell me what else they might need to do.


Stats:
Those are available too and can be found on different pages on the internet.
I just was a bit too lazy to look them up...

Ok, there you go.
Let's have fun, however this game plays out, and let's try not looking like this...

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[Kevinsane]

Mid game. Mid afternoon, two middling (on a good day) teams. My level of interest? In the middle.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Still in San Diego but listening on the radio - LGK

 

[Kevinsane]

Halfway through the game. At home. Nine shots.

 

[Fuhrious]

Watched the last 10 minutes or so, two teams that do nothing to shut down the neutral zone and whiff on clearing their own zone over and over again, it honestly kinda feels like a mirror match of badness.

 

[Fuhrious]

5 on 3 PP coming after a baby diaper soft call on Glass and a legit call on Letang. Let’s see this finely tuned PP go to work…

 

[Fuhrious]

Dunn with a nice shot pots a rare PP score

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

Just got home from SUV shopping...They want a $45,266 in Canada for Hyundai Tucson base model(perferred)...That's fkcing crazy...

Nice to see the Kraken up 2-1

 

[Fuhrious]

Comically bad defense by the Penguins let’s Wright throw a puck to Tolvanen for a goal

 

[Fuhrious]

Both Tolvanen and Oleksiak standing unmarked in front of Blomqvist for Wrights pass. Just awful defending.

Nieto hit in the ear by a deflected shot stops play

Kraken penalty coming, apparently Malkin was hurt earlier in the game?

 

[The Marquis]

See, they needed to lose to the best team in the league. They look like a bubble playoff team tonight.

 

[The Marquis]

Errrrr, this early afternoon

 

[Fuhrious]

Daccord looks locked in

 

[Fuhrious]

This Pens team is just brutal

Karlsson with an absolutely braindead backhand pass through the neutral zone creates a Kakko - Beniers 2 on 1 and Beniers buries it

 

[Fuhrious]

Man I am glad Francis didn’t get duped into chasing Karlsson a couple offseasons ago. Hard not to think the Penguins have been objectively worse since he joined them.

 

[Fuhrious]

Daccord with the .966 sv% in this one.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

A win by a 4-1 margin must feel good for the "troops"

 

[Kevinsane]

I don’t understand how Mike Sullivan still has a job.

 

[Fuhrious]

Both teams were pretty poor defensively in the 2nd (didn’t see the 1st) so I’m not super surprised to see such poor showings in the defensive bars.

I don’t understand how Mike Sullivan still has a job.

Yeah multiple times I found myself thinking “I’m not sure what exactly is wrong with them, they just appear disorganized” which to me seems like coaching.

 

[The Marquis]

Larsson has been kind of shit for a while

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Love that win!

 

[kihei]

It's gotten to the point this season where part of me goes I don't want the two points, but a bigger part goes, hey, a win is a win and winning feels better than tanking...so take the points, doofus. Anyway, it must have been refreshing for the Kraken to play a team with more troubles than they have.

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

That was one of the few games I had a chance to watch over the last few weeks. They looked good. Daccord is our MVP for this season, for sure.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

Larsson has been kind of shit for a while

That extension doesn't look all that great right now.

Looks like it would've been better not to extend hm and use him as trade bait this TDL