The Seattle Kraken, who are playing in their second season in the NHL, have been a bright spot in the early season.
André Burakovsky leads Kraken. PDO
The most interesting game of the day
Last season, as a rookie team in the NHL, the Seattle Kraken, which collected the third fewest points in the regular season (27–55 overall, goals 216–285), has been reborn this season. The team is third in the Western Conference after winning 8 of their 14 matches directly in regular time. Even the goalkeepers (Philipp Grubauer and Chris Driedger) injuries have not hindered the success of the Seattleites by Martin Jones after being able to support the team with a rather modest save percentage of 90.7%.
Definitely the biggest single success factor in Seattle’s early season has been the Swedish striker who transferred to the team from Colorado for this season André Burakovsky. Last season’s Stanley Cup winner, who will be responsible for Seattle’s first court, has scored 4+9=13 in 14 games and is heading towards the best NHL season of his career at this pace. Seattle Finnish striker Joonas Donskoi has not yet been able to start his season due to an upper body injury. Strikers registered in the team Ville Petman and defender Peetro Seppälä have played on the farm side in the AHL for the Coachella Valley Firebirds. During the season, the Seattle Kraken were ranked at the bottom of the league. An interesting statistical observation about the Seattle team is that the power statistics of the players are strongly polarized. The ones with the most pluses Morgan Geekie (+12), Brandon Tanev (+11) and Adam Larsson (+11) are right at the top of the entire NHL with their figures, and correspondingly, for example, the second center Matty Beniers With -9, right at the bottom of the entire statistic.
The Kraken’s Friday night opponent, Minnesota, was considered to belong in the preseason by throwing the series into the top ten. However, the team’s early season has been uneventful and Minnesota has lost seven of the 13 games it has played. The league standings are slightly below halfway in the Western Conference. So far, scoring in Minnesota has been concentrated in a far too narrow sector. Four Kirill Kaprizov, Mats Zuccarello, Matt Boldy and Joel Eriksson Ek has been responsible for no less than 64 percent (25/39) of the team’s goals! There are no Finnish players playing in Minnesota.
In the match, you can very well favor Seattle, because the successes of the early season and the following five-game winning streak are reflected in the self-confidence of the Kraken players. A marginal rest advantage can also be counted for the Kraken, as the match is Minnesota’s third in four days.
Seattle-Minnesota starts at 5:00.
The best betting tip of the day
In terms of betting, Veikkaus offers very competitive odds for Seattle’s successes. Both the actual game time win 2.70 and the final win 2.12 are the highest offers on the market. Personally, I greedily raise the offer of a direct win as a better game choice.
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