{"id":882202,"date":"2026-10-14T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882202\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:54:09","slug":"surprises-two-weeks-into-2026-27-season-according-to-nhl-coms-dan-rosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882202\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprises two weeks into 2026-27 season, according to NHL.com’s Dan Rosen"},"content":{"rendered":"

2. The Seattle Kraken are one of the highest scoring teams in the League.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Kraken have won five of seven (5-2-0), averaging 4.00 goals per game. They have scored at least six goals in three of their seven games; they did that twice in 82 games last season.<\/p>\n

There will be the Kraken critic, or realist, however you want to look at it, that will say the team got fat on a pair of 6-1 wins against the struggling Calgary Flames and a 6-3 victory against the Detroit Red Wings, and really they’re not as good as their record and goals would indicate now.<\/p>\n

Fair. The Flames and Red Wings certainly have had their struggles at the start of the season but then explain to me the Kraken’s 5-3 win against the Washington Capitals on Oct. 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Capitals are considered one of the top Stanley Cup Playoff contenders in the Eastern Conference and the Kraken went into their building, Capital One Arena, and put a five spot up on goalie Logan Thompson<\/a>, a\u00a0Vezina Trophy favorite.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a plus-9 goal differential in all situations (28-19), including plus-11 at 5-on-5 (23-12).<\/p>\n

Sustainability is a real question.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Kraken are getting outshot 214-188 in total, about minus-4 per game. They’re near the bottom of the NHL in shot attempts percentage at 5-on-5 (43.7 percent) while being near the top in 5-on-5 shooting percentage (15.3 percent, third) and save percentage (.931, fifth).<\/p>\n

But they’re rolling now, and for a team that last season finished 28th in goals per game (2.73), seeing the puck go in the net this early in the season is a great thing for confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. The Seattle Kraken are one of the highest scoring teams in the League.\u00a0 The Kraken have won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-882202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882202","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=882202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}