{"id":541924,"date":"2026-04-05T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:36:02","slug":"seattle-kraken-buried-in-unacceptable-loss-to-chicago-blackhawks-emerald-city-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541924\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken Buried in &#8216;Unacceptable&#8217; Loss to Chicago Blackhawks \u2014 Emerald City Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The Seattle Kraken\u2019s odds to make the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs were slim entering Saturday night\u2019s matchup against the Chicago Blackhawks at Climate Pledge Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">However, facing the team with the second-worst record in the league provided Seattle an opportunity to at least extend its hopes. The Kraken can\u2019t control the other bubble team\u2019s results, but they can control the effort and urgency required to put themselves in the best position possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">Even then, there wasn\u2019t enough on Saturday night. With a 4-2 loss to a bottom-feeding Blackhawks, the Kraken all but solidified their place among them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">\u201cI would just use one word,\u201d Seattle coach Lane Lambert said. \u201cI\u2019m disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Kraken\u2019s odds to make the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs were slim entering Saturday night\u2019s matchup against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-541924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116351897461502425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}