For them that will start tonight. The Kraken still are a team that are looking to find their identity. Unlike the expansion team before them the Kraken have yet to find the success that the Vegas Golden Knights have found. For the Kraken, I think they are looking to build a team that can be competitive in the future and stay competitive. The Golden Knights have been competitive, it is just now they don’t have much of a future or cap space to help in the future. The Edmonton Oilers aren’t much to talk about cap space either.
Edmonton Oilers Pre-Season Game 2 vs Seattle KrakenDevin Shore #14, Edmonton Oilers (Photo by Codie McLachlan/Getty Images) The Edmonton Oilers look to win their second pre-season game in as many nights after they beat the Winnipeg Jets, as they take on the Seattle Kraken in Seattle. This will be the Kraken’s first pre-season game of the campaign. The Kraken are in their second season in the league and are looking to improve on their subpar expansion season.
Here is the projected lineup for the Oilers. Oilers projected lineup against Seattle tonight:Janmark – Shore – RyanBenson – Hamblin – Yamamoto Schaefer – McKegg – VirtanenEsposito – Philp – GriffithBroberg – BarrieNiemelainen – WannerPeters – Kesselring RodrigueFanti #Oilers— Tony Brar (@TonyBrarOTV) September 26, 2022There is a few players of note in the game.
They have just over $100 in cap space if they set their roster up the right way and with only 21 players on the roster. Do you need more than 21? No, but you better hope everyone stays healthy. The difference between the Golden Knights and the Edmonton Oilers is the Oilers have 2 All-Stars. That is they way I think Seattle is trying to do things. Get your players through the draft and build internally. It is much more economical than buying your players via free agency or trade. So expect the Kraken to be a competing team in a couple years with their own home grown talent.
Edmonton Oilers Versus Seattle KrakenIf you watched the game last night against the Vancouver Canucks expect a different type of game tonight. The Seattle Kraken are dressing a much better team than the Canucks last night. To go with the Kraken putting out a better team in my opinion the Edmonton Oilers are putting out a not as skilled team as they did last night.
Being on a PTO, he is also playing for his career. The positive for him is he is on a PTO, so he doesn’t need to stay with the Edmonton Oilers he is trying to impress all the NHL teams. The Seattle Kraken RosterThe roster for the Krakren in tonight’s game have much more NHL skills in it. I personally would be surprised if they don’t beat the Edmonton Oilers tonight.
Yamamoto, Barrie and Broberg are players I am going to keep my eyes on. The Janmark-Shore-Ryan line is also a group to watch, just for a different reason though. Those three players will be battling for a spot on this Edmonton Oilers roster. With the cap constraints a mentioned above I think only one of them will be a NHL regular this season. They only have the preseason and training camp to prove themselves. I expect them to pay their hearts out tonight cause their career may be riding on it. As for the rest of the Oilers lineup there isn’t really a roster spot for them to take. The only other player who may have a chance is Virtanen.
Connor McDavid shines as Oilers pound Kraken 7-2SEATTLE (AP) — Connor McDavid had a goal and four assists, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Seattle Kraken 7-2 on Friday night. Zach Hyman and Klim Kostin each scored twice as Edmonton won for the third time in four games. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had four assists, and Darnell Nurse finished with a goal and an assist. McDavid extended his point streak to 17 games, matching his career best. He has 16 goals and 21 assists during the stretch. “He’s the best player in the world for a reason, ” said Seattle’s Adam Larsson, a former teammate with McDavid in Edmonton.
McDavid got his 40th assist of the season on Hyman’s 17th goal. McDavid closed it out when he scored his NHL-leading 32nd goal 10:43 into the third. “I’m always working on my game, ” McDavid said. “I’m just trying to get better and some nights it goes well and some nights it doesn’t. That’s the nature of this league, and I’m just trying to help the team win. That’s what I’m paid to do. ” Earlier this season, McDavid became just the fifth NHL player in the past 25 years to score 30 goals in 35 or fewer games.
“He’s hard to stop. We can do a lot better job stopping him, but when you give him time and space, he’s going to make you look stupid most of the time. ” Brandon Tanev and Daniel Sprong scored for Seattle in its third consecutive loss. Edmonton grabbed control with four goals in the first half of the first period.
Hyman put the Oilers ahead to stay with a power-play goal at 2:44. It was his 16th of the season. Kostin scored at 3:16, and Nurse slipped another shot past Phillipp Grubauer at 3:55. It was the second-fastest trio of goals to begin a game in the NHL this season, behind only Buffalo at 2:13. Grubauer was replaced by Martin Jones, but Edmonton made it 4-0 when Jesse Puljujarvi scored his third goal of the season at 9:58. McDavid collected three assists in the first period, and Edmonton’s four goals were the most allowed by the Kraken in the first in franchise history. Sprong got Seattle on the board 1:50 into the second. It was Sprong’s 11th of the season. But Kostin and Hyman scored again for the Oilers in the middle period.
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