This being their final home game for two weeks, it’s possible some Kraken players on the ice Wednesday night won’t be back here for the team’s return.
The March 21 trade deadline is inching closer and general manager Ron Francis let it be known this week he’ll be shopping guys in hopes of securing draft picks or prospects. An obvious message leading into the team’s 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators is that anybody wanting to stick around had best start giving him a reason to keep them.
Colin Blackwell decided this game by scoring what might have been the team’s second-effort goal of the year, taking three or four whacks at a loose puck in front of Juuse Saros and finally jamming it home when everyone else thought it was frozen. The short-handed goal at 3:19 of the final period put the Kraken ahead to stay on an entertaining night of action when no lead was ever really safe.
