History follows Cammi Granato.

Brandon Tanev had two goals and Jordan Eberle added another to give the Seattle Kraken their first home win in franchise history, beating the Montreal Canadiens 5-1 on Tuesday night.

Hockey royalty pays a Seattle visit some 102 years in the making Tuesday night against a different Kraken opponent, but amid a familiar pandemic backdrop.

For a team just six games into existence — moral victories still aren’t real victories, don’t mistake that — taking steps is the closest it can get to seeing discernible progress.

Bo Horvat scored his second goal of the game on a power play with 7:08 remaining, and Conor Garland scored on a breakaway three minutes later as the Vancouver Canucks spoiled the home debut of the Seattle Kraken with a 4-2 win on Saturday night.

In the hierarchy of influential figures in Seattle's sports history, Ken Johnsen’s name isn’t likely to be found even if his fingerprints are all over the landscape.

Safe to say, the Kraken was rather pleased to get out of Philadelphia, where not even its alleged "new" mascot was safe.

Rookie Dawson Mercer and Damon Severson scored first-period goals and Jonathan Bernier made 27 saves, leading the New Jersey Devils to a 4-2 win over the expansion Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night.

PHILADELPHIA – A couple of uncomfortable, yet undeniable facts collided in rough fashion for the Kraken as players watched the franchise’s first blowout defeat escalate from bad to worse.

It’s been just three games. We don’t know anything about what kind of a team the Seattle Kraken will become.

Another day, another first for the Kraken.

There’s a big difference between beginning a five-game road trip with consecutive losses and responding to the initial loss.

It was hard to dampen the euphoria of this night for Seattle, drenched in the wretched excess of a Las Vegas extravaganza but with meaning far beyond the eventual 4-3 loss by the Kraken to the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday night.

Max Pacioretty scored twice and the Vegas Golden Knights spoiled the Seattle Kraken's debut with a 4-3 win on Tuesday night.

As has been the case the last few seasons, three Spokane natives are on NHL rosters, but two will don new jerseys. A handful of other former Spokane Chiefs players are on rosters as well, as the Western Hockey League team continues to increase the number of alumni in the NHL.

A glance back at Seattle’s expansion history within major men’s professional sports leagues has been about as forgettable as, well, much of the city’s sports legacy in general until quite recently.

Forwards Jared McCann, Joonas Donskoi and Marcus Johansson, and defenseman Jamie Oleksiak were placed on the league’s COVID-19 protocol list on Monday. Forward Calle Jarnkrok has been in the protocol since late last week. McCann, Oleksiak, Donskoi and Johansson were all missing from Monday’s final practice before the team departed for Las Vegas.

As the Kraken enters its inaugural season, here are three reasons the expansion team will make the NHL playoffs, and three reasons it won’t:

As the Kraken enters their inaugural season, here are three reasons the expansion team will make the NHL playoffs, and three reasons it won’t.