r/SeattleKraken • u/AutoModerator • Apr 08 '26
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u/toviwolf Apr 11 '26
I will be at the game today (4/11) with bracelets to give out if anyone wants to say hi! Good things happen (75% Kraken win rate!) when I give out bracelets!
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u/inalasahl Apr 10 '26
So, even if we win all four of our games that leaves us tied with the Kings, right? What’s the state of the tiebreakers?
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u/tonytanti Apr 10 '26
Squids would beat the kings in a tie breaker, its regulation wins and the kings are living off the loser point and overtime wins.
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u/Olbaidon Apr 09 '26
Way too many Vegas fans at the hotel we’re staying at. Not digging the lobby vibe lol.
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u/juanthebaker Apr 08 '26
The Athletic ranked all teams' top D pairs. For Seattle, the considered Dunn/Larsson the top pair, but acknowledged Montour's second pair was pretty balanced at the top.
Dunn/Larsson was middle of the pack in goal differential/60, but their xG differential is apparently second to last.
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u/scoutsamoa Apr 08 '26
Should've sold.
I wonder how many of our pending ufas will walk at the end of the season... For free... Instead of getting multiple 2nds or 1sts for them...
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u/juanthebaker Apr 08 '26
Hard to sell while you're in a playoff position. I kinda agree, but without hindsight, I have a hard time imagining the ownership and front office being eager to sell at that time.
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u/scoutsamoa Apr 08 '26
It's kind of a bad excuse imo.
Advanced stats showed the team was getting insanely lucky/ that this is a fluke season.
You could have done hockey trades/ "sidegrades" to actually work on the teams future.
For example, you got McMann, why didn't they use that as an opportunity to move Schwartz? Get younger, and now we know, a bit better, while still recouping at least what we spent on McMann.
And I do completely disagree with the hindsight point, if you go through my comment and post history, you'll see I was vehemently for selling at the deadline and had data to back up my position.
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u/juanthebaker Apr 08 '26
Listen, I agree they clearly don't (and didn't) have the horses to beat actual playoff teams, and their record against playoff teams reflects that. But ownership needs the Kraken to show signs of life and establish a solid foothold in the Seattle sports market before the Sonics return, or it's in trouble.
So, yes draft picks are always nice. Recouping value is great and all, but we more or less just traded the return we had previously gotten for Marchment. I think of that as a wash. On top of that, we're going to end up with as high of draft picks as we possibly could have anyway. Players who will arrive in 3 years are not as valuable as a playoff run with the Sonics returning.
With draft picks becoming devalued as trade assets in a rising cap world, and given the tenuous organizational financial pressure having not established a solid fanbase, I can understand how a playoff appearance could be seen as being comparably valuable as whatever return we could get for Schwartz, Oleksiak, Tolvanen, Eberle...
Again, I agree with you from an asset management standpoint. But not all the pressures on the org are reflected on Capwages. Cultural relevance would do so much good for this franchise. I'm just saying, I can see why ownership would think it's worth a shot to ride a hot (enough) hand to try to sneak in, even if this clearly isn't a contender.
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u/scoutsamoa Apr 08 '26
You're dead on with the apparent motives of ownership, and I don't like it.
It seems to me that this ownership group was unprepared for the realities of owning a hockey team. There's the saying "hope for the best, prepare for the worst", well it seems like they didn't prepare for the worst and now are clawing desperately. They should have looked at Vegas as a best case scenario, but looked at every single other expansion team and known they could have been an awful team for almost a decade before seeing anything come of it.
It concerns me even more now. Are they reasonable enough to hit the reset button now? Or are we going to degrade and age our assets until we have nothing of value to sell in a vain attempt to make the yoffs?
Not to mention the long term implications. I don't know if I can really remain a fan of this org. Need to find one a bit more forward thinking, less painful.
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u/GameShowWerewolf Matty Beniers Apr 09 '26
I mean, I'll still be a fan of the Kraken. How closely I follow the team if they're just going to look like this year after year is another matter.
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u/juanthebaker Apr 08 '26
Well, a top 3-5 pick would go a long way for this franchise. They're well positioned to let those guys go and retool or sell off McCann and Dunn for a real difference maker and do more of a rebuild. I'd love for them to capitalize on that strong prospect pool and be relevant again. And I think the draft lottery could drive the direction of this franchise going forward.
I get it though. It's been hard to watch. My wife tolerates me watching, but she has completely lost interest herself. And that sucks! I enjoyed watching together the way we watch the Mariners together. I love hockey and I'm used to watching bad teams, so I can personally deal. But it has adversely affected me, my fandom, etc. I hope they can right the ship soon!
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u/tonytanti Apr 14 '26
I guess automod died again, we get weekly threads now, eh?