NHL Weekend Rankings: The Shocking Stories Everyone’s Buzzing About—But Are They True?
4. The Kraken have figured it out – Only four teams in the league haven’t suffered a regulation loss yet, and (spoiler alert) the other three are in our top five. The Kraken are not, although they did escape the bottom five spot they were holding last week. Beyond that, we’re going to need to see more before we start inscribing Lane Lambert’s name on the Jack Adams. Games later this week against the Capitals, Jets and Oilers will offer an opportunity to make me look bad.
3. The Senators are in big trouble – The key word being “big” because the Senators are clearly struggling. They’re 2-4-0 with just one regulation win, including losses to the Predators, Sabres and Saturday at home to the Islanders — three games you’d have penciled in as wins. Worse, Brady Tkachuk is out for weeks, and Linus Ullmark doesn’t look anything like what he was last year, let alone a Vezina candidate. So sure, there are reasons for concern, especially for a team that’s repeatedly sunk themselves with slow starts over the years. But this is a playoff-caliber roster, even without Tkachuk, so I’m not hitting any panic buttons. If they’re not at least back to fake .500 by the end of the month, we can revisit.
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