What You Missed If You Missed Kraken TV This Season

Second Of Three Stories About Kraken TV Voices

Saturday, we shared a few entertaining Seattle Kraken moments - not from the team, but from their ROOT Sports TV broadcasters.

Here's more of the most entertaining give-and-take among John Forslund (JF), Eddie Olczyk (EO), and J.T. Brown (JTB) from the April 16 Kraken telecast in Winnipeg.

Forslund, lamenting cramped quarters & obstructed view.

JF: I am sandwiched in between you two tonight, very tight confines.
EO: You're in the center tonight. You don't look like a center.
JF: I don't feel like a center.
JF: Usually, you're an outcast.
JTB: I like you in the center. Maybe we can do this more often.
EO: Not ever. I need Johnny far away over there.
JF: Not within striking distance.

Winnipeg's Josh Morrissey low-bridges referee Milt Dunning with a clear-in; Dunning tumbles to the ice to avoid getting beaned.

EO: He had to duck, duck, goose.
JF: That's a wonderful game. The old duck, duck goose.
EO: Are we going to take a break here, Johnny?
JF: I never thought when I woke up this morning that I was going to say tonight, "Duck, duck, goose."

The Esplanade Riel, a pedestrian bridge, is one of Winnipeg's besk-known architechtual landmarks.

JF: I'm told that's the only bridge in North America with a restaurant on top of it. (Actually, not since 2020.) I'm not going to think about it again, because I'm not going there. I'll tell you that.
JTB: What if that's where Edzo wants to repay his bet?
JF: No chance. You have a nice night. I will not do that. I won't. I'll be at Jack In The Box.

Olczyk, not wanting interference with his stream of consciousness.

EO: Hopefully we don't get interrupted by another goal.
JF: It's only the most important play in the game. That's OK.

Winnipeg's Dylan Samberg shoots off the post, reigniting a frequent topic: why hitting iron isn't counted as a shot on goal.

EO: Where the crossbar and the post meet, is that called the "elbow?"
JF: We call that the "croast."

EO: It's not a shot on goal.
JF: We're on this.
EO: I don't know that we're "on this." I don't concur with it.

JF: We've been on this all season.
EO: It's been longer than a season. I've pondered this for a long time.
JF: Decades, really. Time flies when you're having fun.

EO: What was it like when you started back in (19)26?
JF: They didn't have posts back then. They just had two pylons. If you got it between the two markers, it was a goal.
EO: Have you ever been referred to as a pylon, Johnny?
JF: No. (Laughs)

Monday: Probably the best, and likely the longest, non-game-related story of the Kraken TV season.