The Need to Knows<\/p>\n
The Time: 7pm PST<\/p>\n
The Place: Rogers [spins wheel] \u2026Arena, Vancouver, BC<\/p>\n
Place to Watch: KING 5, KONG, KHN Channels, Amazon Prime, CBC, City, SportsNet<\/p>\n
Place to Listen: KJR 93.3-FM<\/p>\n
Game Preview<\/p>\n
Life has been bad for the Kraken lately. They\u2019ve lost 4 straight, they\u2019ve tumbled out of a playoff spot, their offense is failing alongside a truly bizarre amount of defensive gaffes that make them look sizeably worse than their record suggests, and their best, most engaged players are playing both on the fourth line or are one guy in a sea of dudes playing like plugs.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah, and they haven\u2019t had Bobby McMann, the guy they traded for this trade deadline, the centerpiece of what they apparently want the team to be, this whole time thanks to visa bulls#!t.<\/p>\n
Mercifully, there are two positives; they might get to play him tonight, and that they play the Canucks; the only team having a worse time than Seattle is.<\/p>\n
Waxing poetic about their issues at this point is pointless; you know they\u2019re bad, I know they\u2019re bad, and they\u2019re probably gonna be trying to move Elias Pettersson and agonize how he somehow finds a way to be a good player again while they begin rebuilding. They\u2019ve won recently, so we cannot rule out the idea that they could ride the momentum to beat the Kraken, but it\u2019s becoming abundantly clear that they should be more concerned about a top 5 pick than any points in the standings.<\/p>\n
The Kraken meanwhile\u2026are lurching dangerously towards that conversation presumably by what they would consider accident. In dropping out of the playoff picture they could end up with a top 10 pick; something the organization is probably not super happy is now in the cards for them.<\/p>\n
Mercifully, the Canucks are still very much themselves; they can be taken out by attacking the middle of the ice and forcing their goaltending, which has not been very good, to try and be the hero.<\/p>\n
Really, I just don\u2019t want to get to a five game losing streak, otherwise I gotta start sprucing up a little thought exercise I\u2019ve been working on regarding The Team\u2122 and it\u2019s philosophy, because this is for the birds.<\/p>\n
It should be about the Squids, man.<\/p>\n
LET\u2019S GO KRAKEN, LET\u2019S GO SQUIDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Need to Knows The Time: 7pm PST The Place: Rogers [spins wheel] \u2026Arena, Vancouver, BC Place to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-536183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}