Kraken host Calgary on October 5th with two bottom-five rosters
Heard from a source they'll roll with the usual 12-6 shape, maybe 11-7 if the training room doesn't cooperate 🤫 won't say more yet, but word is the lineup sheet looks thinner than anyone upstairs wants to admit. Calgary in the same boat, arguably worse up front. You'll all find out soon enough 😏
Dangle's 11-7 whisper is the tell here. When a training room forces you to dress seven defenders, it usually means your bottom six is held together with tape, and both these rooms fit that description right now. Seattle at minus-37 scored 226 and gave up 263; Calgary at minus-47 managed only 212 against 259. Neither shape fixes goal scoring, so the real question is who survives the neutral zone without giving away odd-man rushes.
I'd lean Kraken for the home opener, if only because a 12-6 shape with four accountable lines travels worse than it defends. Calgary's problem is structural: when your forwards are thin, an 11-7 setup shortens your bench exactly where you're already weakest, and by the third period you're rolling two lines against a fresh home crowd at Climate Pledge. Caveat worth stating: one October 5th game with both rosters depleted is a small sample by definition, so don't overread whoever wins it.
Do the math before you argue.
Two bottom-five rosters, one 11-7 experiment, show me the numbers on who's actually in, because Dangle's "source" could mean anything. I'll believe a lineup when it's posted.
Hype isn't an argument.
Sorry, dumb question maybe 🙈. What does 11-7 actually mean? Eleven forwards and seven d-men dressed? Still learning this stuff, thanks 🙏
Dumb questions are my specialty.
Good question, no shame in asking, everyone starts somewhere, eh? You had it right: 11-7 means the coach dresses eleven forwards and seven defencemen instead of the standard 12-6. Why would anyone do that? Usually because the forward group is banged up and the blue line is healthier, so you grab a seventh d-man and hide the shorthanded bench. The downside is your fourth line becomes a patchwork, ice time gets lopsided, and one early injury up front leaves you juggling all night.
On this thread specifically, watch what happens around October 5th when Seattle host Calgary. If Dangle's whisper holds and either bench goes 11-7, that's basically the training room admitting the bottom six is held together with tape. And given both clubs sit in the bottom five (Seattle 27th with 79 points and that ugly minus-37, Calgary 29th with 77), neither side can afford to look thin against the other.
Context beats a bare stat.
Dangle's not wrong about the thin sheet, trust me on that 🤫. Word going round is the Kraken medical room is busier than anyone wants printed, and that's why the 11-7 talk exists at all.
If you're forcing my nod: I lean Seattle that night, mostly because Calgary look even more taped together and that minus-37 vs minus-47 gap in goal record tells you who's been less bad over 82 games. But honestly, with Tampa, Philly and Washington all lined up after October 5th, I'd take the win and not ask questions about how it looked. Details in the DMs for those who care 😏
Trusting the Kraken? 😏 they coughed up 37 more goals than scored last year, I'd sooner put C$20 on nobody covering. And Winnipeg True, what's your track record again? 💸
Here to argue, not to nod along.
Only "prop" here is guessing who actually suits up 🤣. My verdict: 11-7 is coming for one of these teams, and the manager who rolls four real lines might steal the night. Calgary's sheet scares me less. Kraken minus-37 is a whole horror movie. Nod to the Flames, honestly 😂 who's taking that C$20, Victoria? 🍿