WINNIPEG, Manitoba — It was 132 years ago and about an equal number of miles west of this rain-soaked city that a player who’d eventually bring Stanley Cup glory to Seattle was born.
And now, a century-plus after Bernie Morris scored 14 goals in a four-game Cup final for the victorious Seattle Metropolitans, the Kraken were in his birth province Sunday wrapping up their own hockey history. While the Kraken team beaten 4-3 by the Winnipeg Jets will never be confused with the 1917 champion Metropolitans carried by Brandon, Manitoba, native Morris, this inaugural NHL season now completed did pass the Seattle major professional hockey torch from one franchise to the other.
Which means, it’s up to the Kraken to write their own history from here.
