Watching this before the Buffalo game and actually getting excited about these shaken up lines. The future is what it’s all about now. Time to do everything possible to maximize your playoff chances next season
And.... It will be all okay. Third season in, and with last season being so stellar and unexpected, it certainly isn't the worst case scenario - that being dead last in the standings. Let's hope they play good in the remaining games, have fun, and hopefully build some good momentum for next season.
Sometimes this season, I've found myself almost wishing they hadn't done as well last season as they did. It seems to have warped a whole lot of people's perceptions of how this season should have gone.
Hakstol just isn’t going to take the Kraken to the next level. Three years of the same problems and inconsistency is a coaching problem. He will get fired…it’s just a matter of how long Ron Francis waits to move on from him.
RJ, you may be a more advanced form of fan than I am, but I can't root for losses, ever. It's a good thing I'm not really impacting the result on the ice, I guess!
If we think the emphasis on defense (to the detriment of offense) could be a coaching decision, should we be concerned that Hakstol might undo whatever progress has been made with Wright's offense this year? You discussed how Matty and Tolvanen are playing better defensively but their offense has vanished, and something similar seems to be happening with Ryker at least on the offensive side. Part of the reason to have Wright spend the whole year in the AHL was supposed to be to develop his offense and his confidence, and your discussion has me afraid that the current coaching staff is going to slam a lid on the upside of all the young players we've been hoping will make up the core. I wouldn't be too worried about disrupting the Firebirds by rotating a few of them up to the Kraken for a bit. They seem to shuffle their lines and D pairs pretty frequently and it mostly doesn't appear to hurt them too much. They have some wiggle room in the standings and they'll have a few regular games after the Kraken's season ends to get everyone reintegrated before the playoffs start. Plus that could clear space for some of the European or CHL prospects to get into a game or two after their playoffs end, since unlike last year the Firebirds won't (we hope) be down four forwards. *furiously knocks wood*
If Hak can’t handle the kids he’s got to go. This team could (and probably should if the alternatives are Bellemare and Yamamoto) have half a dozen guys on ELCs next season as well as a regressed Matty who needs to be straightened out Also, if the team is contemplating starting next year with Yanni & MB as their top 2 centers then this season’s issues with season ticket renewals is the calm before the storm.
I don't necessarily agree that they should have 6+ guys on ELCs next year. I can see three, maaaybe four. And I don't know quite what to make of Hakstol because it seems like he's gone through periods of handling the young guys reasonably well (or at least giving them decent opportunities, I don't know enough to say beyond that). I never want to hear the season ticket argument again as it relates to performance.
@@vaiharennekarts Evans wright winterton, maybe Morrison and ville. This team needs to get younger and stop bringing in “seasoned” scrubs. Hak doesn’t give them a full run unless he’s forced to by injury. Just who he is, to the team’s detriment.
@@rickyaz8640 he doesn’t usually play them minimal minutes when someone is injured, though. When Evans replaced Schultz in December he got more ice time than Schultz was. Matty gets real minutes. Kartye didn’t get nothing ice time either.
Beniers has been a disappointment in my eyes and he won the calder last year… look at the wyatt Johnston kid in Dallas has 26 goals already. Starting to think he should have won the calder last year…
Watching this before the Buffalo game and actually getting excited about these shaken up lines. The future is what it’s all about now. Time to do everything possible to maximize your playoff chances next season
And.... It will be all okay. Third season in, and with last season being so stellar and unexpected, it certainly isn't the worst case scenario - that being dead last in the standings. Let's hope they play good in the remaining games, have fun, and hopefully build some good momentum for next season.
Sometimes this season, I've found myself almost wishing they hadn't done as well last season as they did. It seems to have warped a whole lot of people's perceptions of how this season should have gone.
Hakstol just isn’t going to take the Kraken to the next level. Three years of the same problems and inconsistency is a coaching problem. He will get fired…it’s just a matter of how long Ron Francis waits to move on from him.
I've been in tank mode since before the trade deadline but you know me. Bring on Tij Iginla
RJ, you may be a more advanced form of fan than I am, but I can't root for losses, ever. It's a good thing I'm not really impacting the result on the ice, I guess!
If we think the emphasis on defense (to the detriment of offense) could be a coaching decision, should we be concerned that Hakstol might undo whatever progress has been made with Wright's offense this year? You discussed how Matty and Tolvanen are playing better defensively but their offense has vanished, and something similar seems to be happening with Ryker at least on the offensive side. Part of the reason to have Wright spend the whole year in the AHL was supposed to be to develop his offense and his confidence, and your discussion has me afraid that the current coaching staff is going to slam a lid on the upside of all the young players we've been hoping will make up the core.
I wouldn't be too worried about disrupting the Firebirds by rotating a few of them up to the Kraken for a bit. They seem to shuffle their lines and D pairs pretty frequently and it mostly doesn't appear to hurt them too much. They have some wiggle room in the standings and they'll have a few regular games after the Kraken's season ends to get everyone reintegrated before the playoffs start. Plus that could clear space for some of the European or CHL prospects to get into a game or two after their playoffs end, since unlike last year the Firebirds won't (we hope) be down four forwards. *furiously knocks wood*
If Hak can’t handle the kids he’s got to go. This team could (and probably should if the alternatives are Bellemare and Yamamoto) have half a dozen guys on ELCs next season as well as a regressed Matty who needs to be straightened out
Also, if the team is contemplating starting next year with Yanni & MB as their top 2 centers then this season’s issues with season ticket renewals is the calm before the storm.
I don't necessarily agree that they should have 6+ guys on ELCs next year. I can see three, maaaybe four. And I don't know quite what to make of Hakstol because it seems like he's gone through periods of handling the young guys reasonably well (or at least giving them decent opportunities, I don't know enough to say beyond that).
I never want to hear the season ticket argument again as it relates to performance.
I was supposed to stop overreacting to development things. This was apparently a failure.
@@vaiharennekarts Evans wright winterton, maybe Morrison and ville. This team needs to get younger and stop bringing in “seasoned” scrubs. Hak doesn’t give them a full run unless he’s forced to by injury. Just who he is, to the team’s detriment.
@@rickyaz8640 he doesn’t usually play them minimal minutes when someone is injured, though. When Evans replaced Schultz in December he got more ice time than Schultz was. Matty gets real minutes. Kartye didn’t get nothing ice time either.
Beniers has been a disappointment in my eyes and he won the calder last year… look at the wyatt Johnston kid in Dallas has 26 goals already. Starting to think he should have won the calder last year…
Wyatt wasn't the better rookie, matty was, you can't win an award for being a better rookie because the next season you got better