{"id":555373,"date":"2026-04-18T16:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555373\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:33:22","slug":"post-mortem-three-reasons-why-seattle-kraken-failed-once-again-in-2025-26-emerald-city-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555373\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Mortem: Three Reasons Why Seattle Kraken Failed Once Again in 2025-26 \u2014 Emerald City Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" class=\"sqsrte-large\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The 2025-2026 NHL regular season is now over. The Seattle Kraken failed to score a goal in their season finale, going out without much of a whimper, falling 2-0 to Vegas to bring another disappointing campaign to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The Kraken finished 34-37-11, totaling 79 points. That ranks third among the five seasons in Seattle Kraken history. They fell three points shy of being the second-highest point total in franchise history. They also failed to have a winning season in Lane Lambert\u2019s first year as head coach, finishing below .500 for the fourth time out of the five years, along with three straight years of sub-.500 hockey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">The Kraken have gone through three head coaches in five seasons. It appears as if Lambert will get a second year, barring an unexpected development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">So, what happened? Why did the Kraken fail to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the third straight season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-2026 NHL regular season is now over. The Seattle Kraken failed to score a goal in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-555373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-kraken","13":"tag-seattlekraken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116426676990640965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555373","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=555373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}