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GDT: GAME 70: YOUR SEATTLE KRAKEN (30-34-5 and in danger of falling out of a top five selection) at the Minnesota Mild (38-25-5).

I very much want Campbell to succeed - I coached college women's hockey for almost a decade while I was in grad school and I'm a huge advocate for women's ice hockey (also see my Sarah Tueting sweater above)..

She's a good coach but for assistant coaches, your longevity is typically tied to who the head coach is when you get there.
 
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Fistfullofbeer said:
Can't argue with the numbers, right. I mean we are dismal on the PP. PK isn't great either but better than the PP.

I want to see Campbell succeed and truth be told, if she was a man I would be less upset to see her go. Her making it big is something I would take a lot of joy in. Also, if they fired/replaced Campbell and only Campbell, it would not be a good PR look. Neither would be sending her back to the AHL or make her a NHL skating/conditional coach. I am not sure if I am being overly paranoid of firing Campbell but to me it seems to have a lot of repercussions. Maybe her fate is directly tied to Bylsma.
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It sucks in particular because she's widely considered THE expert "skating specialist" across the entire league, and having her on the team's staff in that capacity is a huge asset...but I dont know how you square that circle with the team's performance in other areas she is purportedly directly responsible for?
 
Man looking at Puckpedia is just depressing. This team is gonna look exactly the same next season. "Lets run it back" on a bubble team who popped about a month ago and have been going through the motions against any team with a .500 or better record.
 
Bear of Bad News said:
I very much want Campbell to succeed - I coached college women's hockey for almost a decade while I was in grad school and I'm a huge advocate for women's ice hockey (also see my Sarah Tueting sweater above)..

She's a good coach but for assistant coaches, your longevity is typically tied to who the head coach is when you get there.
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The pp isn't great, but I'm looking more at the D constantly leaking and isn't Woods responsible for that? The PPs biggest problem is that they don't move the puck fast enough so the box have an easy time, they dont "wrongfoot" the box and the net front is too passive and don't get enough pucks to work with either.
 
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Fuhrious said:
Man looking at Puckpedia is just depressing. This team is gonna look exactly the same next season. "Lets run it back" on a bubble team who popped about a month ago and have been going through the motions against any team with a .500 or better record.
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Yeah, the future (well, immediate future) doesn’t look promising. Wright, Beniers, Nyman, and Evans will hopefully improve, but there are too many players on the roster who will simply be older and may decline.
What to do? We certainly don’t want to see shiny new toys signed in free agency to albatross contracts, but the only other alternative is continued patience with a pipeline of very young prospects.
 
Kevinsane said:
Yeah, the future (well, immediate future) doesn’t look promising. Wright, Beniers, Nyman, and Evans will hopefully improve, but there are too many players on the roster who will simply be older and may decline.
What to do? We certainly don’t want to see shiny new toys signed in free agency to albatross contracts, but the only other alternative is continued patience with a pipeline of very young prospects.
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Next season was always going to look this way. If off-season moves are not made, nothing changes really. And even if they are made, we all seem to not trust that they are going to be impactful so nothing changes still. The only thing I am hoping for is that they don't expend good assets while doing so.
 
CLW said:
The pp isn't great, but I'm looking more at the D constantly leaking and isn't Woods responsible for that? The PPs biggest problem is that they don't move the puck fast enough so the box have an easy time, they dont "wrongfoot" the box and the net front is too passive and don't get enough pucks to work with either.
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There is precious little about the PP that works. It's definitely not just "moving the puck fast enough". Their entries are terrible, they cant consistently win o-zone faceoffs, they dont have triggermen for one-timers and nobody with a nose for creating seam looks, but then they also dont have anyone going to the net trying to create deflections or screens.

Supposedly the staff has been preaching traffic in front of the net all season. Well, we're 70 games in and this lollipop still tastes poopy.
 
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Wild feed declares Trenin biffing that breakaway "doesnt get much on it"...uhhh sure.

Then a few minutes later, on the way to commercial, show it in slow motion where you clearly see him biff it off his stick trying to stickhandle and repeats "doesnt get much on it"

Man, just call it like it went down. He duffed it you homers.
 
This is "current day" hockey culture that I dislike...

Eyssimont and Hinostrosza start wrestling around, it is what it is...then Hartman and Bogosian turn around and all 3 start giving Eyssimont the business. What happened to 3rd man in?

Then the icing on top, they cut to Hartman sitting in the box bitching about getting called. Man you know what you did. STFU.
 
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Wild feed made a point to mention that Grubauer didnt bother doing the "penalty expiration" stick taps which almost led to Hartman coming out of the box for a breakaway behind Larsson.

Send him to CV and buy him out at the end of the year.
 
It never stops surprising me how a team with maybe one or two forwards with any skill at zone entries is so averse to just dumping the puck in deep. Like really Larsson, you're going to try to skate it in there? You think that'll work? Really?
 
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Fistfullofbeer said:
This has been a really good defensive showing by the Wild. Something our team can aspire for.
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They've been riding their 3rd and 4th lines pretty hard since the halfway point, it feels like. I havent looked at TOI but it feels like Hartman/Trenin/Hinostrosza are out there all the time.
 
McCann gets the puck at the dot but rather than snapping off a quick shot, stickhandles first touch and then makes a quick pass to the covered Kraken player in the high slot and the puck is turned over.

Think I'm ready to move on from McCann. He has all the tools but just doesnt have that "sniper" mindset, almost too timid with the puck on his stick far far too often.
 
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