By scoring at least five goals in their victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday, the Seattle Kraken unlocked a special deal for their fans.<\/p>\n
Not everybody in the Emerald City, however, was enthused by the prospect of a 32 percent discount on flights to California, as TV play-by-play man John Forslund took issue with the lengthy ad read that the promotion prompted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means that all fans get 32 percent off Alaska Airlines flights to anywhere in California that Alaska flies,\u201d Forslund said shortly after Kaapo Kakko\u2019s goal midway through the third period. \u201cCheck out all the destinations you can \u2014 as Daccord comes up big \u2014 by visiting AlaskaAir.com\/GetAwayGoals.\u201d<\/p>\n
As he returned to calling the action on the ice, Forslund added his own commentary.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I\u2019m done with \u2018War and Peace,’\u201d the play-by-play man said in reference to the 1,200-plus page novel. \u201cLet\u2019s make that one longer next time\u2026 the powers that be that control these things have never read something and watched a hockey game at the same time. That\u2019s all I\u2019ve got to say. It\u2019s almost goodnight, folks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe powers that be that control these things have never read something and watched a hockey game at the same time\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-01-07T05:35:55.625Z<\/a><\/p>\n For what it\u2019s worth, Forslund\u2019s ad read lasted approximately 20 seconds of game action \u2014 a not insignificant amount of time in a fast-paced sport like hockey. Sure, the Kraken<\/a> already held a 5-2 lead in what was ultimately a 7-4 victory<\/a>. But it\u2019s also understandable why a professional such as Forslund would prefer to be calling the action over hawking airline discounts.<\/p>\n But while his bosses may not have been happy with his on-air shots, give Forslund this much: his breaking of the fourth wall brought more attention to the ad read than it otherwise would have received. And if one more person takes Alaska Airlines up on its 32 percent discount on flights from Seattle to California, then his additional commentary will have been well worth it for all involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By scoring at least five goals in their victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday, the Seattle Kraken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[191302,385,4831,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-395507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-john-forslund","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-seattle-kraken","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}