What happened to the Kraken???

In this year’s Baseball Prospectus , the go-to book for baseball stat geeks, writer Lauren Thiessen noted in the San Diego Padres preview that you can judge how disastrous a team’s season is by the amount of games left when the post-mortems are written. In the case of the Seattle Krakens, coming off a recent eight-game winless streak, the `what happened to the Kraken’ musings are popping up almost daily. But the contest most likely to get the finger-pointing treatment is the Kraken’s Mar. 12 game hosting the Vegas Golden Knights. Kraken fans and their followers had a good feeling heading into that contest. While the Kraken were coming off a loss to Winnipeg, they had posted a rare victory against the Knights at the Winter Classic on New Years’ Day and recent road wins at Calgary and Winnipeg. Plus, Jordan Eberle who’s a big part of the Kraken’s brief history, signed a contract extension the previous day, when it appeared he was headed out of town at the trade deadl...