The Kraken have given Colorado everything they could handle and then some, but can Seattle hang with an in-form Avs...
The Seattle Kraken swarmed the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche over the first four periods of their series, but since then the Avs have found their feet and put away Seattle in consecutive games. Game 3 saw Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, and Cale Makar chip in with multi-point efforts, and lefthosts Frank Seravalli and Mike McKenna wondering whether Seattle had squandered their chance to upset the champs on Monday’s show.
My question to you, Mike, is have the Seattle Kraken thrown their best punch? Are they out of gas, and do you firmly believe the Colorado Avalanche are now in the driver’s seat?I don’t think the Seattle Kraken have thrown their last punch at all, Frank. This is a team that is going to skate and play their game until the very end. I just don’t think they’re as good as the Avalanche. When it just comes down to the star power and the finishing ability, it’s there for Colorado.
Look at their top scorers in the series, it’s the expected guys. It’s Mikko Rantanen and MacKinnon, all their big dogs are on the board. Where’s Seattle right now? Who can they turn to? Burakovsky’s not there, and it feels like over the last two games Seattle allowed a sleeping giant to wake up in Colorado and take over the game. When MacKinnon and Rantanen are firing, it’s tough to get past that.
I do think the saving grace for Seattle is that in the first two games Philipp Grubauer played really well. I don’t think he was bad in Game 3 either. I don’t think they are done. I think Seattle is still going to steal another game, Frank, but the bottom line is that Colorado is the better team. When you give them room to breathe and a couple power plays to get going, it makes things easier on them.
I think Colorado has the belief that they can get through whatever’s thrown at them. Even when the Kraken are hitting and all over them, Colorado just has that knowledge and that feeling. Then when MacKinnon starts to take over there’s not really much of an answer for it, and you can see that play out.How overwhelming is that for a Kraken team that’s throwing the kitchen sink at the Avs just for them to find a way to overcome it?It will be a good sign at the end of the season.
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