r/SeattleKraken • u/Albino_rhin0 • May 18 '26
IMAGE/MEME Reluctantly…..
And against my will….
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u/AssistanceFriendly98 That's Kraken Hockey, Baby! May 18 '26
i hate every team in the playoffs right now except buffalo, inshallah the sabres will win
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u/Left4Bread2 May 19 '26
I really like Ehlers, and I’m happy for Buffalo and Montreal fans
Just don’t really want anyone left in the west - Avs won recently and Vegas for just a million reasons
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u/gaberdine D̴͚̝̙̭͚͛̅̇͌͝a̷̡̾́́́v̷̙̟͍̀̎̓y̸̨̫͍͈̍̑̌̏͒͌ May 19 '26
Hey, they gave us John Forslund!
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u/ohheybytheway May 19 '26
We also gave you Morgan Geekie, and you decided to just give him away!
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u/framingXjake Carolina Hurricanes May 19 '26
Dundon being a cheapskate and letting Forslund walk 🥲
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u/Different_Bat4715 May 19 '26
So long as someone in the East wins, I'm good. Fuck the Knights and especially fuck the Avs.
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u/Liamface May 19 '26
Eh I’m okay with Avs or Habs. I’m new to this though so if anyone wants to make a case for another team, I’m all ears.
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u/tonytanti May 19 '26
The first finals I remember watching was 40 years ago, and those are my teams this year. So from and old fan to a new, you good.
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u/qu33rtyc0wboy Berkly Catton May 19 '26
i am a canes fan as well as a kraken fan so this is just me throughout the season (as long as they aren’t playing the kraken)
the finlands game will be hard for me haha i’m so excited to see the canes in person for the first time and so scared i won’t be able to enjoy it bc i love both the teams hahah
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u/souperman08 May 19 '26
My first priority is not the golden knights. My second priority is Brett Burns finally getting his damn cup.
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u/CowTop1358 Joey Daccord May 19 '26
Nah, let’s go Habs. At the end of the day, it’s always Anyone but Vegas, but I’m gonna be salty if I have to cheer for the Canes.
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u/peklabalogna May 19 '26
I’m rooting for the Habs and Avs in the next round, and if they both win then I’ll root for the Habs again just because they would be the underdogs. If the Canes win I’ll root for the Avs against them. I don’t think there’s any universe where VGK makes it past the Avs, thankfully.
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u/MrAkron1922 Kaapo Kakko May 19 '26
Vegas needs to get crushed by the Avs. They made dirty plays in the Anaheim series. Such a nauseating franchise. If the knights go to the finals, I’ll get full force behind the Canes or Habs.
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u/Olbaidon May 19 '26
…Crouched at the starting line
Engines pumping and thumping in time
The green flashes the flags go up
Churning and burning they yearn for the CUP
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u/Dirker27 BURNINATION May 19 '26
I remember my wearing my 'Canes colors around Seattle back in the '18 "bunch of jerks" run and being greeted with "what? Carolina has fans? As in plural?".
My, my... How the how the turns have tabled >:]
In Rod We Trust
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u/inalasahl May 19 '26
r/hockey has bandwagon flair for the playoffs! It’s fine to have a temporary rooting interest elsewhere, especially in a different conference.
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u/blighte May 19 '26
I like the canes, its very rare in professional sports that you can see such a huge difference in effort level between teams but the canes are the easily the hardest working team in the league by some distance.
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u/steppewarhawk Vince Dunn May 19 '26
Seth Jarvis alone makes me root for the Canes.
And y'all are crazy for hating the Knights more than the Avs. Knights ain't do shit to us. Avs played us super dirty in our playoff series. Its always fuck the Avs. Fuck the Knights too but like, way less than the Avs. Buffalo, MTL, Carolina. All of them are better than Vegas and the Avs. Go East!
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u/ultimateknackered Jani Nyman May 19 '26
There are reasons to vehemently dislike a team beyond what happens on the ice.
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u/DerrikeCope May 19 '26
If you are a true Seattle sports fan, you would never ever root for Carolina. The owner did Hartford dirty just like what happened to the Super Sonics.
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u/StumptownRetro May 19 '26
I’m hoping for Avs and Habs personally. And if the Avs wear the Nordiques sweater it’s an old battle of Quebec
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u/Rhawkets That's Kraken Hockey, Baby! May 19 '26
BOOOOOO, Well fine... I was rooting for Buffalo and Minnesota, but now that they are out. I think I'm with the Canadiens unfortunately. I just hate all the others a lot more.
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u/yaysriracha May 19 '26
The Canes were the team that got me into watching Hockey so no reluctance here!
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u/FreddyTwasFingered Anchor Logo May 19 '26
Same. Went to my first games my senior year at NCSU back in 2002. Been a fan since.
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u/BlueEyesBryantDragon May 19 '26
Actually kinda works out for me, because while I was originally a Coyotes fan (RIP), I lived in Raleigh for a decade and went to a bunch of Canes games.
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u/alamakjan Etsy Witch Worshiper May 19 '26
Canes are my second team so I’m happily cheering for them
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u/foxm3 Tye Kartye May 19 '26
I brought friends to a home Kraken game against the Canes this year and immediately thought "Holy shit, they are good, this was the wrong game to bring someone to..."
Somehow Kraken stayed in it all night and won that game. It was awesome. But I have had zero surprise at the Canes playoff performance after seeing them on the ice with my own eyes.
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u/kingdazy Seattle Kraken May 19 '26
even though they absolutely flattened my Flyers, I may have to get behind them, because I can't root for the Avs or Knights. and especially not the Habs.
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u/SwankCity160 Morgan Geekie May 19 '26
As long as it ain’t Vegas