Unmasking the NHL’s Deceptive .500 Teams: Who’s Faking Success This Weekend?
So it’s over. Unless we’re all wrong again.
That doesn’t feel likely right now. The Kraken have been a team loaded with star power, and scoring is an issue. The penalty kill has been brutally bad. The five-on-five numbers are ugly. Philipp Grubauer remains a sub-.900 goalie for the fifth straight year, and Joey Daccord hasn’t been good enough to make up for the other weaknesses on most nights. Jaden Schwartz, who’d been their leading scorer, is on IR.
If there’s any optimism, our staff isn’t finding it. Harman had them at a 2/10 to make the playoffs in his recent roundup of early surprises. And in our staff picks, they had more of us thinking they’d plummet all the way to dead last (one voter) than thought they’d make the postseason (zero).
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