GDT: Kraken @ Blues

[The Marquis]

Gotta get one up. I’m half packing for a 2 week long trip but trying to watch.

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[kihei]

Good period for us. Dominated shots on goal, scored one goal that was disallowed and knocked another puck off the pipes. Still looking for that first goal, though.

 

[The Marquis]

They look better for sure, but damn they need to finish

 

[The Marquis]

A goal that actually counted is nice!

 

[kihei]

Tie game.

 

[kihei]

1-1 at the end of the second period. A defensive battle with both goalies playing very well. Not many super dangerous scoring chances for either team.

 

[The Marquis]

Quiet night. I blame xfinity

 

[kihei]

Kind of boring, actually.

 

[kihei]

Kraken are 11 for 11 on penalty so far this season. So that's good news.

 

[The Marquis]

Kraken are 11 for 11 on penalty so far this season. So that's good news.

If only they could score at a decent clip

 

[The Marquis]

Hey, point number 1!

 

[kihei]

To overtime it goes, thanks to Daccord.

 

[kihei]

We can't even score three-on-three, and St Louis only touched the puck for about 15 seconds. On to the shootout.

 

[The Marquis]

Well, they didn’t get better at shootouts. The finishing is seriously bad. Daccord did well tonight though. The D was also pretty solid, but damn. No finishing.

 

[kihei]

Thomas scores the winner for the Blues with a perfect shot on the third round of the shoot out.

The good news is Daccord looked like a major league goalie all night. With just a tiny bit more support he would have won the game for us, but that support is not forthcoming so far this season--two goals in three games.

As a game, people didn't miss much. It only really got interesting around the 12 minute mark of the third period when St Louis finally found some urgency playing in their own building and the Kraken quickly followed suit.

 

[Kevinsane]

I missed the game, but the lack of offense is indeed concerning, considering last year’s success was predicated on balanced scoring.

 

[The Marquis]

This is more than missing Sprong. They just can’t finish. Dunn’s called off goal I believe still goes in, so that’s good, but 2 still isn’t enough. They need to score goals to win games and that isn’t happening

 

[RainyCityHockey]

This is more than missing Sprong. They just can’t finish. Dunn’s called off goal I believe still goes in, so that’s good, but 2 still isn’t enough. They need to score goals to win games and that isn’t happening

Well, a decline in team shooting percentage was inevitable but that right now is really bad.

A big part is the team still being way too easy to be pushed to the outside and taking shots from bad angles with a low chance of actually scoring.
They're also not great net front and if they are(Schwartz and Yamamoto) they're way too small to actually hurt other teams.

Also, that 2nd line of Wennberg, Borakovsky and Schwartz looks pretty bad and can't get anything done while the other lines don't really score either.

The next three games are at home against Colorado, Carolina and the Rangers.
Unless someone really gets it going offensively this might be a really tough stretch with a potential get even worse on that four game road trip tot he east coast after that.

Though, at least goaltending and the pk have been solid so far.
If we can keep that up we should be abel to win a couple of games at some point.

 

[GrungeHockey]

It's true, they have a number of players slumping or whatever you want to call it at the same time vs. last year where a number of guys had good runs, perhaps career years, at the same time. It's still early but it does not bode well for just staying the course. This is where coaches earn their money. Have to figure out ways to change lines and shake some people out of their funk.

If they don't, it'll be a long year and step back (before a leap forward hopefully).