Beginning potential critical week, Kraken take on Ducks

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One early-season barometer for NHL teams is where they stand on Thanksgiving.

Over the past decade, teams that are in playoff position on the U.S. holiday have a better than 75 percent chance of making the postseason.

That statistic makes the home-and-home series between the Seattle Kraken andAnaheim Ducks -- Monday night in Anaheim and Wednesday in Seattle -- of greater importan