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Critch · 04-20-2023, 08:12 AM

2038/39 Playoffs Round 1 - Seattle Kraken
It's Seattle Kraken in the playoffs for the 5th time. They've won twice (2030/31 - 4-0, 2034/35 - 4-2) and we've won twice (2033/34 - 4-0, 2036/37 - 4-1).

They're another team with top players, former Ranger LW Tyler Van Caeyzeele, RD Flynn Brown, LD Milo Eager, aging superstar Shane Wright, but with poor goalies. They've got pretty mediocre rookie Tristan Busteed starting backed up by Huskies reject Neil Pintaric. Hopefully that'll give us an advantage.

Unfortunately we'll be missing a few players, Henry Mews got himself an 8 game suspension in the last game of the regular season so he wont be back til the 2nd round at the earliest. Jeff Martin is out too, a hamstring injury has kept him out for a couple of months and he's still listed as 2 or 3 weeks away so maybe 2nd round at the earliest, Jonas Lambert is day to day with a back problem, and John Fireman is out til next year. So a few knocks to cope with.

Game 1 - Anchorage Huskies 0 Seattle Kraken 3
Well it's a bad night all round. Seattle's mediocre goalie Tristan Busteed stoped all 30 shots he faced and shut us out and C Jordan Gavin is on ice 2:40 before he's injured and out for the night. The first period is scoreless, Seattle score twice in the second (4:14 Ivan Posokhov, 15:41 Konstantin Yenchev), they add a late empty net goal from Tyler Merkley and it's all over, we're one game down and awaiting word on how bad Jordan Gavin's injury is.

Game 2 - Anchorage Huskies 1 Seattle Kraken 2
And it's bad news on the Jordan Gavin injury. He's torn a flexor tendon and will be out 4 months. We need to shuffle about, Michael Jackson is now the top line center. Seattle are 1-0 up in the first, Konstantin Yenchev again, it's 2-0 Seattle in the second, Aaron McBurney with a power play goal. Enzo Landrey pulls one back in the second but no more scoring. Tristan Busteed faces 41 shots and stops 40. Looking at the high risk chances, we threw this one away by not taking chances. We need the captains to step up, unfortunately the captains are Jordan Gavin, Henry Mews and Jeff Martin and they're all out. Back to Anchorage 2-0 down.

Game 3 - Seattle Kraken 2 Anchorage Huskies 4
Without Jordan Gavin there's a lack of scoring on the top line. Our best remaining offensive center is Aleksandr Unichenko, he's now first line center and Borje Svensson is set to be a sniper to try and add scoring to replace Gavin. First period Anchorage go 1-0 up, Mark Dollack with a slapshot. Second period is scoreless so into the third leading 1-0. David Prudek makes it 2-0, an assist from Unichenko, I'm taking credit for this with my top line shuffling. Yenchev brings Seattle back into it at 2-1. There's no more scoring until the last two minutes of the game, Alexander Broda, our 21 year old Czech rookie who's in with Jeff Martin being out makes it 3-1 at 18:03, Flynn Brown scores for Seattle to make it 3-2 at 18:31. David Prudek makes it 4-2 with a late empty net goal, an assist from Lucas Karmiris who's back from Juneau to add a bit of experience to the team. We're back in the series.

Game 4 - Seattle Kraken 3 Anchorage Huskies 4 Overtime
More fiddling with the lines. Unichenko isnt good enough to be the top line center, the roles are set back to what we've gone with all season. Normally the top line is Prudek crashing the net, Gavin using his speed to attack defenders, Svensson playing more conservatively to cover. We're back to that setup but with Enzo Landrey playing the Jordan Gavin "Speedy Forward" role. We were not going to go far with Unichenko leading the line. Anchorage are 1-0 up with an Enzo Landrey power play goal at 6:21, Seattle get a power play soon after but Michael Jackson makes it 2-0 with a short handed goal. Hampus Magnusson scores for Seattle at the end of the first period. 2-1 going into the second. Kyle Ruiz scores for Seattle at 0:48 of the second period to bring them level, but we're back to in the lead later in the second, a slapshot from the blueline from Johan Dahlberg. We spend a chunk of the third period on the penalty kill, Seattle finally score on their third power play of the period and it's 3-3, Cash Koch with the goal. What a strange name. Overtime doesnt last long (it never does) before Michael Jackson wins it for Anchorage. Back to 2-2 in the series.

Game 5 - Anchorage Huskies 1 Seattle Kraken 4
Enzo Landrey gives Anchorage the lead 36 seconds into the game, Seattle tie it up in the second take a lead with a Cash Koch goal in the third, then add not one but two late empty net goals to make it look more comfortable for them than it actually was. Jeff Martin is back in training but not much likelihood of him being back for this series, not even if there's a game seven.

Game 6 - Seattle Kraken 3 Anchorage Huskies 4 Overtime
Only one change, Lucas Karmiris has been bad so he's out. He's really done, one year to go at 3.5mil too and he wont play again unless it's an emergency. Spencer Ecclestone returns to replace him. Michael Jackson puts Anchorage 1-0 up, Hampus Magnusson ties it up. Aleksandr Unichenko puts us 2-1 up, a Flynn Brown power play ties it up and it's 2-2 at the end of the first. There's one goal in the second, Roman Stainov puts Seattle 3-2 up. It stays like that til 18:40 in the third, Michael Jackson scores a late equalizer and we're going to overtime. 8:12 into overtime Magnus Larsen scores the winner for Anchorage (assist from Michael Jackson, he had a good night) and we're off to a game 7. Every game so far has gone to the home team, hope we can break that trend in Seattle.

Game 7 - Anchorage Huskies 3 Seattle Kraken 0
Some good news before game 7, if it's ok and sporting to call opponents being injured good news. They'll be missing two of their stars, LW Tyler Van Caeyzeele has been carrying a shoulder injury but he's now officially out, LD Milo Eager will also be out with a muscle injury. The series doesn't end with every game going to the home team. We're outshot 33-27, out high danger chanced 11-7, but Lucas Wall stops all 33 shots he faces and we're back from 3-2 down in the series to win. Three goals from defensemen, Alexander Filippov from the blue line at 8:00 in the second, Johan Dahlberg at 2:09 in the third and a late empty net goal from Alexander Fillipov again and we're home and dry. Seattle have their chances, the high danger shots and three power plays, but don't score. On to the second round.

In the second round we'll be up against Vancouver, they were flying in the second half of the season, best record in the NHL, and they beat the 2nd Wild Card Atlanta Thrashers 4-1 in the first round. It'll be Colorado v Nashville in the other semi, and NY Islanders v Washington Capitals and Florida v Quebec in the East. No three-peat for Toronto, they fell to Quebec in a seven game series.

04-20-2023, 08:12 AM	#94
Critch lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Herndon, VA	2038/39 Playoffs Round 1 - Seattle Kraken It's Seattle Kraken in the playoffs for the 5th time. They've won twice (2030/31 - 4-0, 2034/35 - 4-2) and we've won twice (2033/34 - 4-0, 2036/37 - 4-1). They're another team with top players, former Ranger LW Tyler Van Caeyzeele, RD Flynn Brown, LD Milo Eager, aging superstar Shane Wright, but with poor goalies. They've got pretty mediocre rookie Tristan Busteed starting backed up by Huskies reject Neil Pintaric. Hopefully that'll give us an advantage. Unfortunately we'll be missing a few players, Henry Mews got himself an 8 game suspension in the last game of the regular season so he wont be back til the 2nd round at the earliest. Jeff Martin is out too, a hamstring injury has kept him out for a couple of months and he's still listed as 2 or 3 weeks away so maybe 2nd round at the earliest, Jonas Lambert is day to day with a back problem, and John Fireman is out til next year. So a few knocks to cope with. Game 1 - Anchorage Huskies 0 Seattle Kraken 3 Well it's a bad night all round. Seattle's mediocre goalie Tristan Busteed stoped all 30 shots he faced and shut us out and C Jordan Gavin is on ice 2:40 before he's injured and out for the night. The first period is scoreless, Seattle score twice in the second (4:14 Ivan Posokhov, 15:41 Konstantin Yenchev), they add a late empty net goal from Tyler Merkley and it's all over, we're one game down and awaiting word on how bad Jordan Gavin's injury is. Game 2 - Anchorage Huskies 1 Seattle Kraken 2 And it's bad news on the Jordan Gavin injury. He's torn a flexor tendon and will be out 4 months. We need to shuffle about, Michael Jackson is now the top line center. Seattle are 1-0 up in the first, Konstantin Yenchev again, it's 2-0 Seattle in the second, Aaron McBurney with a power play goal. Enzo Landrey pulls one back in the second but no more scoring. Tristan Busteed faces 41 shots and stops 40. Looking at the high risk chances, we threw this one away by not taking chances. We need the captains to step up, unfortunately the captains are Jordan Gavin, Henry Mews and Jeff Martin and they're all out. Back to Anchorage 2-0 down. Game 3 - Seattle Kraken 2 Anchorage Huskies 4 Without Jordan Gavin there's a lack of scoring on the top line. Our best remaining offensive center is Aleksandr Unichenko, he's now first line center and Borje Svensson is set to be a sniper to try and add scoring to replace Gavin. First period Anchorage go 1-0 up, Mark Dollack with a slapshot. Second period is scoreless so into the third leading 1-0. David Prudek makes it 2-0, an assist from Unichenko, I'm taking credit for this with my top line shuffling. Yenchev brings Seattle back into it at 2-1. There's no more scoring until the last two minutes of the game, Alexander Broda, our 21 year old Czech rookie who's in with Jeff Martin being out makes it 3-1 at 18:03, Flynn Brown scores for Seattle to make it 3-2 at 18:31. David Prudek makes it 4-2 with a late empty net goal, an assist from Lucas Karmiris who's back from Juneau to add a bit of experience to the team. We're back in the series. Game 4 - Seattle Kraken 3 Anchorage Huskies 4 Overtime More fiddling with the lines. Unichenko isnt good enough to be the top line center, the roles are set back to what we've gone with all season. Normally the top line is Prudek crashing the net, Gavin using his speed to attack defenders, Svensson playing more conservatively to cover. We're back to that setup but with Enzo Landrey playing the Jordan Gavin "Speedy Forward" role. We were not going to go far with Unichenko leading the line. Anchorage are 1-0 up with an Enzo Landrey power play goal at 6:21, Seattle get a power play soon after but Michael Jackson makes it 2-0 with a short handed goal. Hampus Magnusson scores for Seattle at the end of the first period. 2-1 going into the second. Kyle Ruiz scores for Seattle at 0:48 of the second period to bring them level, but we're back to in the lead later in the second, a slapshot from the blueline from Johan Dahlberg. We spend a chunk of the third period on the penalty kill, Seattle finally score on their third power play of the period and it's 3-3, Cash Koch with the goal. What a strange name. Overtime doesnt last long (it never does) before Michael Jackson wins it for Anchorage. Back to 2-2 in the series. Game 5 - Anchorage Huskies 1 Seattle Kraken 4 Enzo Landrey gives Anchorage the lead 36 seconds into the game, Seattle tie it up in the second take a lead with a Cash Koch goal in the third, then add not one but two late empty net goals to make it look more comfortable for them than it actually was. Jeff Martin is back in training but not much likelihood of him being back for this series, not even if there's a game seven. Game 6 - Seattle Kraken 3 Anchorage Huskies 4 Overtime Only one change, Lucas Karmiris has been bad so he's out. He's really done, one year to go at 3.5mil too and he wont play again unless it's an emergency. Spencer Ecclestone returns to replace him. Michael Jackson puts Anchorage 1-0 up, Hampus Magnusson ties it up. Aleksandr Unichenko puts us 2-1 up, a Flynn Brown power play ties it up and it's 2-2 at the end of the first. There's one goal in the second, Roman Stainov puts Seattle 3-2 up. It stays like that til 18:40 in the third, Michael Jackson scores a late equalizer and we're going to overtime. 8:12 into overtime Magnus Larsen scores the winner for Anchorage (assist from Michael Jackson, he had a good night) and we're off to a game 7. Every game so far has gone to the home team, hope we can break that trend in Seattle. Game 7 - Anchorage Huskies 3 Seattle Kraken 0 Some good news before game 7, if it's ok and sporting to call opponents being injured good news. They'll be missing two of their stars, LW Tyler Van Caeyzeele has been carrying a shoulder injury but he's now officially out, LD Milo Eager will also be out with a muscle injury. The series doesn't end with every game going to the home team. We're outshot 33-27, out high danger chanced 11-7, but Lucas Wall stops all 33 shots he faces and we're back from 3-2 down in the series to win. Three goals from defensemen, Alexander Filippov from the blue line at 8:00 in the second, Johan Dahlberg at 2:09 in the third and a late empty net goal from Alexander Fillipov again and we're home and dry. Seattle have their chances, the high danger shots and three power plays, but don't score. On to the second round. In the second round we'll be up against Vancouver, they were flying in the second half of the season, best record in the NHL, and they beat the 2nd Wild Card Atlanta Thrashers 4-1 in the first round. It'll be Colorado v Nashville in the other semi, and NY Islanders v Washington Capitals and Florida v Quebec in the East. No three-peat for Toronto, they fell to Quebec in a seven game series.