Why are Kraken surging? Hakstol says they’ve found their identity
After coming one goal short of a Western Conference Finals appearance last season, expectations were high for the Seattle Kraken in Year 3.
After coming one goal short of a Western Conference Finals appearance last season, expectations were high for the Seattle Kraken in Year 3.
It’s not the same juicy mentor-meets-student storyline like it was when Todd McLellan, a former Edmonton Oilers head coach, was matching wits and lines with his former assistant Jay Woodcroft in those two Los Angeles-Edmonton playoff series, but Seattle’s bench boss Dave Hakstol and Kris Knoblauch, the new man here, have a history working together in Philadelphia.
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Four times during in his hockey coaching career, Dave Hakstol found himself in the position of being a new head coach faced with the challenge of getting a team to buy into his system.
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Winner to be announced at 2023 NHL Awards in Nashville on June 26.
On the eve of throwing out the first pitch at a Seattle Mariners home game, Kraken coach Dave Hakstol took a moment to think about that task on a cool spring day down in SoDo.
Kraken coach visits MLB counterparts, meets with mascots.
The Kraken struggled in their inaugural season, but the team bolstered its offense in the offseason. Now Seattle is third in the Pacific Division.
Kraken coach Dave Hakstol will forever be linked to this city he says he “loved” and learned plenty in during three-plus seasons here coaching the Flyers.
AHL Firebirds and NHL Kraken are both off to above .500 starts as coaching staffs share a common approach to developing players for current and future Seattle roster.
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