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Second Periods, man.

But First, the Highlights

Game Notes

Your TOI Leader was Brandon Montour, who logged 24:51 tonight.

The Kraken did a pretty good job of controlling the pace of play through the first period, but the Wings throughout seemed to notice that they could use their skating speed to flummox Seattle more than once, and turned that into their entire offensive output for the night. The Kraken defense struggled mightily to return to something considered form after Lucas Raymond got Detroit’s opening tally, only really gaining their composure after a successful video review…but not enough to save the game. Playing scared with a young, hungry and very competitive team is just not how Lane Lambert probably sees this team playing, and I can imagine it’ll be a major point of pain at practice; especially given who they face on Thursday night.

The Kraken Power Play has been pretty good through the last 19 games…but that’s only doing modest cover for the five alarm fire that the penalty kill has become, and it was very much the difference for Detroit in this one. It’s easy to blame it in general for much of the Kraken’s overdramatic nature this season, but it does bear mentioning given how routinely it fails them and forces them into positions where they have to go find a goal or survive a major push from the other team. If it was even a little bit better then maybe we’re talking about another OT game? It’s gotta be another point of pain for practice as well.

Gotta hand it to the Kraken video review team; I’m pretty sure in real time that I looked away for a second and turned my attention back just in time to see Adam Larsson had just given up a backbreaker of a turnover while completely in his own world, but they were completely right on the video review and from a really tough angle, too. Kudos to those hawk-eyes.

Joey is definitely back, and he’s definitely no worse for wear, but I dunno if he’s at 100% quite yet; That Raymond goal was just beneath him and his caliber of play…and then a shot nobody except a psychic could’ve had a prayer on in short order. He rebounded back to where he was in the 1st period pretty quickly however, and even if the .885 SV% doesn’t look ideal on him, I think we can chalk this up to a very ugly couple of minutes being all the difference in the fastest game on earth. He’ll rebound.

Was there anything good about this game?

Sure!

Jordan Eberle finished an honestly exceptional power play early on in the game with a back door tap-in, but special praise should go to Matty Beniers and Eeli Tolvanen as well for their heads up play during that particular man-advantage, who had the Red Wings spinning in circles. Top class stuff!

Ryker Evans put an absolute bullet past Cam Talbot and staunched the bleeding that the Kraken were undergoing at the best possible time. Garth, ya done good, and I think it bears repeating that we did miss you.

Speaking of Eeli Tolvanen, he walked away from this one with 2 assists and both helped keeping scoring plays alive. His initial shot that Beniers was able to keep alive got the puck in the most dangerous area of the ice, and his direct assist in the 2nd period was critical puck support for Shane Wright after all his hard work mucking the puck out against the Wings. Good night!

Shane Wright only got a secondary assist, but man having two Red Wings hovering over you hacking at the puck in the corners and still coming away with the puck is some real good stuff, and exactly what we need Wright to be doing with most of his shifts. Quality assist for him.

The Chartz, via NaturalStatTrick.com

HELP YOUR GOALIE.

The Kraken continue this little road jaunt to the Second City to take on the resurgent Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night, that game is at 5pm PST.

We’ll see you there! And as always…

Keep Calm, and Post Zoidberg When We Win.