Don’t look now, but the Seattle Kraken are 5-4-1 in their last ten games and currently sit seven points behind the Nashville Predators for the final wildcard spot in the Western Conference (with two games in hand). I haven’t been shy about offering my thoughts on the franchise’s direction, and the recent string of results has only hardened my stance, even if the path to winning a Stanley Cup promises to be long and arduous.
The term “five-year rebuild” has become a familiar refrain for executives of bad teams when offering a timeline for their return to legitimate contention.
The issue with that platitude is that owners are generally not patient. The
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