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Rust game kraken9/17/2023 ![]() ![]() "And that was the most important thing, getting back in the win column here. "I think that we thought it would be a lot better, but we found a way to win," Tkachuk said. The Flames were a little chippy, with play stopping several times to break up scrums, and weren't as tight on defense as goaltender Jacob Markstrom might have hoped as the teams combined for four goals in the final four minutes. The rust showed, as Sutter noted: "I'm not making an excuse here, but if you had 19 days off you wouldn't be very good out there." They helped us get this team, they continue to help us play.Duration 0:59 Calgary defeats Seattle 6-4, Matthew Tkachuk scores game-winning goal and adds two assists. “That, to us, was very important, because fans are our lifeblood. “We listened to the fans and they said, ‘We want to hear that sound,’” Buford said. The Kraken would go on to win 4-1 that night. A first-period goal scored by Haydn Fleury had the distinction of getting the first real in-game horn blast. 28 game against the Wild, the setup was ready for prime time.īuford had the opportunity to press the horn button himself earlier in the day in a test, and the team put the system into play for the first time that night. 1 and 2, the necessary equipment at the arena wasn’t quite ready and the team used a recording of the horn that was played over the building's sound system, Buford said. “It’s neat that a little bit of the Hyak just keeps on going.” Ready for prime timeįor Kraken home games No. “I’m glad that they were able to utilize (the whistle),” Knutsen said. Now, Hyak's whistle will continue to make loud pronouncements to the world. Knutsen and other staff were proud of the vessel’s reliability and made sure that it performed at the top of its game. ![]() More: Once home to square dances, ferry Hyak headed toward retirement I’m glad that it’s able to still make noise in a positive way.” It would still be running if they had the funding available, but they decided otherwise. ![]() “(Hyak) died a premature death in my opinion. “The Hyak lives on, thank goodness,” the Anacortes resident said of the new goal horn. The vessel, once the toast of the state’s ferry fleet, will likely be scrapped at some point.Īfter a long career with the ferry system and about a decade working aboard the Hyak - including at times on its whistles - Dave Knutsen, Hyak’s staff chief engineer, retired right alongside the vessel in July 2019. Today, it floats tied up in Kingston, looking more than a little forlorn as algae and rust grow on its exterior. With no funding designated to keep the vessel running, Hyak would eventually be retired in 2019. The vessel hauled its first passengers in July 1967, and for years, it chugged along on routes up and down Puget Sound but primarily served on the Bremerton to Seattle run. Hyak now lives on in a major way at Climate Pledge Arena. More: Into the archives: Ferry Hyak, once the toast of Bremerton, to sail into retirement A bit of history For us, we wanted to make sure that we weren’t blasting three to six miles, that we were blasting enough to be loud enough to be heard with the roar of the fans for a goal.” “With two horns, you’re blasting at a radius to get to three to six miles, so you can warn boats and warn people to move out of the way. An air compressor used by a welding team that worked on the arena construction powers the cone, which points toward the roof. Plans were formulated for how to make the system work indoors and to keep the team’s new goal horn from rupturing eardrums. Eventually, a whistle made its way up to the catwalk that hangs in the arena’s historic roof. The team set to work acquiring the equipment from Washington State Ferries and ended up purchasing two whistles off the recently retired ferry Hyak. “We were just like, ‘Did you hear that sound? That’s the sound.’” “We talked about it even during dinner,” Buford said. They looked at each other: The fans were right, that had to be the goal horn. During the trip, they heard another ferry sound its whistle. ![]() Watch Video: VIDEO: Hyak's whistle lives on as Kraken goal horn 'That's the sound'Īt one point last year, Buford hopped on a state ferry sailing to Bainbridge Island, joining Jonny Greco, the team’s senior vice president of entertainment, experience and production, and Greco’s family. ![]()
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