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).

[Bear of Bad News]

Happy Grubauer day for all who celebrate.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

Happy Grubauer day for all who celebrate.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

As a Colorado resident, the day the Kraken started taking sweater orders I immediately put in a GRUBAUER 31 purchase, which I still wear proudly around Denver.

(My other Kraken sweater is a DRIEDGER in case you're wondering my effect on the team. I suppose I have a no-name Winter Classic sweater).

Anyhow, I still love Gru.

 

[The Marquis]

Game 70..

A few things of note.

• We've already had 5 more points this season than season 1. So the chatter about this team being worse than Season 1 is off-base.
• We're sitting tied (Pts%) for the 6th/7th pick with PITTSBURGH. Let that sink in for a second. We're tied with the team that has Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang and Erik Karlsson.
• It's looking like (again, Pts%) that we can realistically fall anywhere from 3rd to 9th in the draft order, though 3rd is highly unlikely.
• We need only 4 more wins to match the wins we had last season. That seemed like a pipe "dream" a couple weeks ago. I'm sure we won't (and hope we don't) match the 81 points, because I'd bet that would mean we pick 9th, possibly even 10th, but the accomplishment of having the same number of wins as last season could be motivating to some of the team. Like "we didn't actually get worse, which means we can get better".

 

[Fuhrious]

As a Colorado resident, the day the Kraken started taking sweater orders I immediately put in a GRUBAUER 31 purchase, which I still wear proudly around Denver.

(My other Kraken sweater is a DRIEDGER in case you're wondering my effect on the team. I suppose I have a no-name Winter Classic sweater).

Anyhow, I still love Gru.

I also went no-name on all of my jerseys, because I don't want to be walking around with GIORDANO or DONSKOI on my back for the rest of my life.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

I don’t mind nondescript players on mine - one of my favorites is my Ron Hextall Nordiques sweater.

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

As a Colorado resident, the day the Kraken started taking sweater orders I immediately put in a GRUBAUER 31 purchase, which I still wear proudly around Denver.

(My other Kraken sweater is a DRIEDGER in case you're wondering my effect on the team. I suppose I have a no-name Winter Classic sweater).

Anyhow, I still love Gru.

Well .. maybe it's just a mod thing. That is my one and only Kraken jersey as well. Though, I am waiting for a Wright jersey to arrive.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

I’m afraid to get a Wright because I don’t want to jinx.

 

[kihei]

I don’t mind nondescript players on mine - one of my favorites is my Ron Hextall Nordiques sweater.

Just out of curiosity, how many jerseys do you have?

 

[CLW]

What on earth was that did zone coverage? Gongshow.

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

This is going well. Good thing I started watching the game on time.

 

[kihei]

Well, this is going south quickly.

 

[CLW]

Clownshoes and red noses.

 

[Kevinsane]

I have a Winter Classic Beniers. Home, away, RR, and Metropolitans are all no name, as are my Firebirds away and third.
An upside of cheering for the Kraken and and for CV is that they both have produced nice sweaters. When I supported Vancouver no matter what your favourite colour was, somehow they ruined it.

 

[sigma six]

Oof, getting SMOKED early.

 

[kihei]

Grubauer with a sparkling .547 save percentage, three goals all before the five minute mark.

 

[Kevinsane]

Just tuned in. Three goals on EIGHT shots?!

 

[CLW]

Do these guys hate Gru or what serious question?

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

I mean it's a back to back but they are playing like they got on the flight right after last game and came to play right after the flight landed.

So ugly.

 

[CLW]

If I was Bylsma I'd call a time out and chew the team out. Zero backchecking or coverage. Nobody's skating. We look like Chicago in the d zone.

 

[kihei]

This is about as much fun as watching an anaconda swallowing a hamster.

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

Do these guys hate Gru or what serious question?

Is there a stat that could show that? I understand advanced stats a bit but not enough to evaluate this.

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

This is about as much fun as watching an anaconda swallowing a hamster.

You kidding? That would have no tv timeouts, would not need 3 periods of 20 minutes with 2 breaks in the middle.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Just out of curiosity, how many jerseys do you have?

Maybe ten?

 

[CLW]

This is about as much fun as watching an anaconda swallowing a hamster.

Yeah. The better teams exploit all that juicy space offered to them by the Kraken with ease.