The Nashville Predators wrap up their western highway journey tonight in Seattle, the place they’ll face a Kraken group that’s had an excellent current stretch on the standings board and can look to rebound from getting shut out in opposition to the Rangers on Sunday. Each groups are rested, and each in a approach have one thing to show — the Preds a win to construct on, the Kraken a loss to recuperate from.
The Seattle Kraken
Jared McCann is the Kraken’s standout manufacturing chief and their finest on-ice play driver, with 21 factors on the season (9G/12A). Jordan Eberle, who missed Sunday’s recreation with a lower-body harm, is second in objectives with six and factors with 11, which is a fairly dramatic drop-off. Chandler Stephenson has 9 assists, and André Burakovsky and younger defender Ryker Evans each have eight.
They’ve made the a lot of the possibilities they’ve gotten, with a weak energy play nonetheless changing not far beneath league common charges, and an offense that has had hassle attending to the entrance of the online scoring effectively once they do make it there. We’re more likely to see an excellent little bit of the Kraken’s energy play tonight, because the Preds take fairly a number of extra penalties than they do.
Joey D’accord has been their finest participant on the penalty kill, taking a extremely fairly atrocious shorthanded protection and making the important thing saves extra usually than he ought to have needed to. He’s been rewarded with a .918 sv% on the season, whereas Philipp Grubauer has struggled within the internet each shorthanded and at even energy.
Tips on how to Watch
The sport airs at 9PM Central on TNT, TruTV, and Max, or you may hearken to the radio name on 102.5 The Sport. It’s the final late evening for some time, of us — hold in there.
