The Athletic 2024-25 team grades: Kraken get a C-

7 comments

1. That’s a lazy way of looking at it, laying it all on the goaltenders. I don’t agree with this NYT writer.

   There were too many times where the goalie would be in a 1:1 faceoff without other players defending him or defensemen would leave gaps open for the opposing team.

2. I feel like this rating is fair.

   I’ve stayed out of the Gru posts because they tend to get a little toxic and repetitive…but here I go anyway. I love Gru as a person. He was one of the reasons we made the playoffs in Season 2 and a big reason we got as far as we did. He has not been the right goaltender for this team since. If he gets a chance with another team, I’ll be happy for him, especially if he does well. But it cannot be here.

3. C- is a fair grade for the team and grade for Ron Francis too. Just above failing.

4. Huh. No mention of fairly poor performances from Mccann, Bjorky (before the trade), or Burky? We need to score to win; putting all the blame on the GKs is a cop out.

5. In addition to better goalie play we also need guys like Vince Dunn to get back to their normal points production. Too many guys had big dropoffs this season for us to have a real shot at anything.

6. Well so what? I give the boys an A+ and a pizza scratch-n-sniff sticker for being cute

7. It’s always funny seeing Drance show how little he actually pays attention to this team. Really wish we had a beat writer but sadly we have a guy who opens a stat sheet once every couple weeks and poops out a paragraph