GDT: Game 29: Seattle Kraken(10-15-3) @ Anaheim Ducks(16-9-5) - 7:00 p.m. PT / 10:00 p.m. ET

[CascadiaPenguin]

Gru is a big problem. A new team with $11MM invested in G (based on memory) deserves better. Caps (and Avs) were right about him. He is Bobrovsky II.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

Gru is a big problem. A new team with $11MM invested in G (based on memory) deserves better. Caps (and Avs) were right about him. He is Bobrovsky II.

So he should be fantastic in year three of his contract?

Anyways, like I've said he needs a break and maybe even a mental coach(the Avs did that as well) in order to work his way back.

And we need him to do that because we don't need a backup with a $5.9 mil cap hit for the next five seasons.

 

[The Marquis]

At least it’s 5.9m, not 10m.

 

[Toomany7pins]

What has Grub done to earn this playing time.?
I get CD been hurt a lot of the year but that can no longer be an excuse to keep putting an underachieving player out there on most nights.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

What has Grub done to earn this playing time.?
I get CD been hurt a lot of the year but that can no longer be an excuse to keep putting an underachieving player out there on most nights.

We're playing a back-to-back and Driedger played the first game.

Also, even though he's been off today, the first and the third goal are something he can't do anything about.

BTW: Now we can't even keep the puck on the pp and are playing defense most of the time....

 

[RainyCityHockey]

Good pass by Eberle and it's 1-3

 

[kihei]

Donato of a beauty feed from Eberle.

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

So he should be fantastic in year three of his contract?

Anyways, like I've said he needs a break and maybe even a mental coach(the Avs did that as well) in order to work his way back.

And we need him to do that because we don't need a backup with a $5.9 mil cap hit for the next five seasons.

. He will be so good in year 3. As long as Kraken doesn't make playoffs.

Seriously though, I agree with you. Gru is not awful, but he is right now. A break may help. Ron had a good idea that super strong G's may make the Kraken relevant. Given how no one was going to make Vegas-esque trades prior to the expansion draft, I get it. It didn't work. So what, nice try, I'd say. At the end of this season we will still have the exact same number of Stanley Cups as the Vegas Golden Knights.

 

[Cisse]

Boy we have a long way to become a play off team.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

I don't like that Giordano - Larsson pairing on defense, especially against faster teams.
Larsson isn't all that fast but Giordano seems to be completely out of his depth skating wise against those kind of players.

 

[kihei]

Hank points out the obvious. The Kraken have a lot of good players but no great players.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

Grubauer's out and Driedger plays now.
Seems like he got injured during that collision.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

What a sh*** play by Silferberg.

 

[Stammertime91]

Hey guys where is Gourde???

 

[RainyCityHockey]

I know he had some good starts but Driedger looks slow going side to side.

@Stammertime91
Gourde's on Covid protocol since Saturday.

 

[kihei]

That's the ball game, another ugly goal.

 

[Stammertime91]

I know he had some good starts but Driedger looks slow going side to side.

@Stammertime91
Gourde's on Covid protocol since Saturday.

Thanks!

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

We're playing a back-to-back and Driedger played the first game.

Also, even though he's been off today, the first and the third goal are something he can't do anything about.

BTW: Now we can't even keep the puck on the pp and are playing defense most of the time....

Drie hasn't done shit this year. If he can't manage several back to backs in a row, given how rested he is, that is unfortunate.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

Drie hasn't done shit this year. If he can't manage several back to backs in a row, given how rested he is, that is unfortunate.

Driedger has been on IRL twice already and unless you're Vasilevsky you don't play on back-to-backs, especially with Driedgers injury problems.

BTW: Now Deslaurier's allowed to smash Wennberg into the boards and that's OK.

 

[The Marquis]

That hit on Wennberg should have been a penalty. NHL refs.

Anaheim is a good team. Second of a back to back. Kraken goaltending has been insanely poor per the actual stats. We get to watch an NHL team in Washington State!

 

[kihei]

Anaheim has a bunch of promising young players and really look like they are headed in the right direction.

Not a stellar effort from us, though.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

That hit on Wennberg should have been a penalty. NHL refs.

Anaheim is a good team. Second of a back to back. Kraken goaltending has been insanely poor per the actual stats. We get to watch an NHL team in Washington State!

After that he did something similar to Appleton as well.
At some point you gotta make it clear to him that this isn't acceptable, if the refs don't do anything about it.

Still, no surprise we lost this one.

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

After that he did something similar to Appleton as well.
At some point you gotta make it clear to him that this isn't acceptable, if the refs don't do anything about it.

Still, no surprise we lost this one.

That's kind of the problem though. I don't know who on our team will step up in that scenario.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

That's kind of the problem though. I don't know who on our team will step up in that scenario.

Usually Lauzon, but he was out.
Though, Oleksiak could do it as well.

 

[CascadiaPenguin]

Driedger has been on IRL twice already and unless you're Vasilevsky you don't play on back-to-backs, especially with Driedgers injury problems.

Yeah, not so much, at least in terms of real world stats of goalies playing back-to-backs. Why NHL coaches need to revisit the idea that goalies shouldn’t start on back-to-back nights