Kraken, Dan Bylsma

Kraken Need To Re-Flip The Road Script

The Kraken have flipped the script.

Under head coach Dave Hakstol, the Seattle boys were road warriors for long stretches while blowing leads on home ice. This season it’s just the opposite under Dan Bylsma. The club has improved at Climate Pledge Arena in a big way, always nice when you’re trying to keep paying customers, and floundered away from home.

With their 2-1 loss over the weekend in Los Angeles to the Kings, the Kraken have dropped five straight on the road.

Monday night is the perfect opportunity to flip the script back against the struggling Anaheim Ducks.

“They’re a young team, but a skilled team, they have skill in a lot of different places in their line-up,” Bylsma said Monday morning. “(Leo) Carlsson, (Trevor) Zegras, and the 2nd and 3rd lines have a good dose of skill and speed. (They) sant to play that way, and if we have this to be a chance game, have this to be a skill game, it’s gonna be a tough contest tonight.”

Expect to see Joey Daccord in net for the Kraken and Lukas Dostal for the Ducks.

Bylsma played 429 regular season and 16 playoff games in an NHL career that ended in 2004. The winger played the final 209 games with the Ducks after starting his career with the Kings.

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