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What to watch for in the Kraken’s playoff series vs. the Stars — plus Geoff Baker’s prediction

UPDATED: Mon., May 1, 2023

Kraken forward Yanni Gourde has been all the way through the Stanley Cup playoffs marathon twice before and knows better than to get too emotional just one round in.

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Commentary: Kraken’s Game 7 win keeps playoff hockey on Seattle’s center stage

UPDATED: Mon., May 1, 2023

As one Seattle icon said on the occasion of another exhilarating, groundbreaking playoff series win, more than a quarter century ago: It just continues.

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Kraken top Avalanche in Game 7 to earn first playoff series win

UPDATED: Sun., April 30, 2023

DENVER – A blistering, second-period wrist shot by Kraken winger Oliver Bjorkstrand had stunningly put his team ahead by two and allowed followers of his second-year franchise to dare to dream the impossible.

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Drama-filled Kraken vs. Avalanche playoff series culminates with contentious Game 7

UPDATED: Sat., April 29, 2023

DENVER – Seattle Kraken forward Jordan Eberle somehow found a way to throw additional gasoline on an opening-round playoff series already flaming with more drama than typical NHL showdowns needing a full seven games.

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Jacob Thorpe: The Kraken can learn plenty from Spokane when it comes to building hockey culture

UPDATED: Sat., April 29, 2023

The following is an essay on first love and mature love, love that is familial and love that is fraternal. That’s right – we’re talking about Spokane hockey.

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Commentary: After missed chance to clinch at home, Kraken brace for first Game 7

UPDATED: Fri., April 28, 2023

In any professional sport, the phrase “Game 7” has a regal aura, and the NHL has the well-earned reputation for providing the most intense, fraught and frenetic Game 7s of them all.

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Kraken overpowered by Avalanche in second period, forcing decisive Game 7

UPDATED: Fri., April 28, 2023

There was a brief first-period moment Friday night when Vince Dunn and his Kraken teammates appeared poised to pull off the dream scenario that would send the defending Stanley Cup champions packing.

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How the Kraken pushed defending champion Avalanche to brink of elimination

UPDATED: Thu., April 27, 2023

SEATTLE – One of an NHL-record 13 Kraken players to score in a playoff series made arguably his biggest contribution Wednesday night without even the benefit of a stick.

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Kraken hold on to beat Avalanche in Game 5, can clinch series in Seattle

UPDATED: Wed., April 26, 2023

DENVER – What seemed a rather far-fetched dream when this opening-round series began last week has morphed into something increasingly real for a Kraken group looking to stun the hockey world.

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Commentary: Kraken can aim even higher after tying playoff series with Avalanche

UPDATED: Tue., April 25, 2023

SEATTLE – Soak it in, live it up – this is officially a hockey town. The big screen at Climate Pledge Arena featured a series of the city’s most iconic sports moments before the game, and then the Kraken added to the list three hours later.

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NHL suspends Cale Makar for hit on Kraken’s Jared McCann

UPDATED: Tue., April 25, 2023

DENVER – There was some solace for the Kraken on Tuesday, as the NHL did what its officiating crews declined to the prior night by assessing supplemental discipline on Colorado Avalanche star defender Cale Makar for a hit that has transformed this series.

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Jordan Eberle’s OT goal lifts Kraken to first home playoff win, evens series vs. Avalanche

UPDATED: Mon., April 24, 2023

The emotional charge of seeing their top scorer felled by a forearmed shot behind the action from their opponent’s star defenseman seemed to catapult the already surging Kraken to an entirely different level of play.

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Commentary: Kraken fans rise to occasion in Seattle’s NHL playoff debut, but Avalanche quiet roar

UPDATED: Sun., April 23, 2023

It was a party two years or a century-plus in the making, depending on how much of an homage one chooses to pay the Seattle Metropolitans. Suffice it to say the fans at Climate Pledge Arena arrived Saturday ready to bellow, and the Kraken provided them the requisite break-loose moment a mere six minutes into the game.

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Kraken overwhelmed by Avalanche in first home playoff game, trail 2-1 in series

UPDATED: Sat., April 22, 2023

A seesaw night of emotions for Seattle’s first major professional hockey game in more than a century had Kraken fans living, dying and reviving themselves with each gut-wrenching, spirit-lifting swing of events.

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Seattle Kraken’s home playoff debut against Avalanche will be an opportunity on and off ice

UPDATED: Fri., April 21, 2023

SEATTLE – These next 60 minutes of playoff hockey in front of their home fans won’t be a cure for everything ailing the Kraken on and off ice entering Game 3 of their opening round Stanley Cup playoff series.

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Avalanche rally from two goals down to beat Kraken in Game 2 and level series

UPDATED: Thu., April 20, 2023

DENVER – Blowing kisses to the crowd after they’d just sucked the air out of the building epitomized the Thursday night fright the Kraken put into the defending Stanley Cup champions and their stunned fans.

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Kraken hope to continue surprising streak of NHL playoff road wins

UPDATED: Thu., April 20, 2023

DENVER — An upstart Kraken bunch entered Thursday hoping to continue an NHL trend of dominance by visiting teams in these Stanley Cup playoffs.

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Kraken take it easy as they bask in playoff-opening win

UPDATED: Wed., April 19, 2023

DENVER – The Seattle Kraken stuck to the formula Wednesday and stayed off the ice, choosing to rest and recuperate the day after the franchise’s first playoff game. It was a 3-1 road victory against the Colorado Avalanche, who won the Central Division.

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Quick-starting Kraken stun Avalanche 3-1 in NHL playoff debut

UPDATED: Tue., April 18, 2023

DENVER — Minutes into Tuesday night’s historic Kraken playoff debut, feisty defenseman Will Borgen served notice his underdog team wasn’t just happy to be here.

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Kraken embark on first quest for Stanley Cup in playoffs where anything can happen

UPDATED: Mon., April 17, 2023

Kraken forward Jordan Eberle remembers being a teenage fan the first season of an NHL salary-cap era in which the Stanley Cup playoffs finally became democratized. He watched – riveted – as his favorite Edmonton Oilers missed winning the 2006 Cup Final against Carolina by a game.

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