Kraken Must Improve On "Careless," "Sloppy" Effort From Chicago Defeat
The Seattle Kraken reached consensus on the main culprit in Tuesday's 4-3 loss to the Blackhawks in Chicago.
- Kraken center Matty Beniers: "We were careless with the puck."
- Kraken coach Dave Hakstol: "Our puck play was pretty sloppy through the first two periods."
- Kraken winger Tye Kartye: "We gotta work on playing a full 60 minutes so we're not giving away goals."
Seattle faces the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight, in the second of their four game road trip. If the Kraken don't clean up their puck-handling, Leafs snipers including William Nylander, Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner will make them regret it more than the Blackhawks did.
In the first of a two-part Kraken Reaction video conversation, we talk Kraken-Leafs with THN Toronto site editor David Alter.
Among the topics:
Toronto's Calle Jarnkrok (19) meets Justin Schultz (4) and the rest of his former Seattle teammates tonight.- Whether the Maple Leafs can break their 56-year Stanley Cup drought
- How two ex-Kraken, Mark Giordano and Calle Järnkrok, are faring in Toronto
- Dave Hakstol, for two years a Leafs assistant coach, before taking the top job in Seattle
(Part 2 of our conversation with David Alter drops at 1 pm Pacific Time Thursday.)
KR SEA@TOR Preview Pt 1
