Seattle Kraken goalie Chris Driedger unboxes his new pads

Seattle Kraken goalie Chris Driedger unboxes his new pads and shares what went behind the design process.

[@Amm17ar]

Its kinda nice to see how excited and proud some of these Kraken players are to be playing for a new team. Super refreshing to see.

[@maxwellsdem0n]

The tentacles, swatting away those pucks, like playing against a giant squid after the defence makes em feel like their drowning... Driedger ALREADY playing the mind games with the other 31 teams I love it.. Lets GO !!

[@ryanschaff2507]

That’s the corniest thing I have ever read on yt.

[@Sevastian_Donahue]

@@ryanschaff2507 he must be on krack

[@flipngrip]

Love the design and logo incorporation, it just makes sense to have the tentacles reach out onto the goalies legs and arms. Man, as a goalie myself I can't wait for the day I custom design my own gear. Its a bucket list item! Can't imagine doing it day in day out like these guys get to. A perk of the pros and all the hard work they have put in! Good luck this season, my Blues will be gunning for you!

[@gdv355]

Those pads are 🔥🔥🔥

[@RyanLombergini]

Yep 👍

[@antonsjoberg]

I love that wavy part of the tentackles

[@C3Cooper]

Most goalies have their own process for breaking in a new set of pads and won't take them directly into play. It would have been really cool to hear/see Chris's process and to discuss the features of the catcher pocket design.

[@ZackTheKack]

Those pads are pretty awesome, I can't lie. I can't wait to see what Seattle does this year.

[@Davidjon1946]

Better then my buffalo sabres who been in the league since 1970

[@TheAlfrulz]

Very nice design. I feel like the little touch of red from the eyes could be subtly distracting for the shooter and draw his focus away from his intended target ever so slightly.

[@krazykanuckjr1425]

congrats to the technical design and apparel team these pads are amazing

[@MicBergsma]

I am so glad y’all have CC on thank you thank you!! NHL channel never did. Sick setup!

[@hemicuda3d]

The design is great. Normally I like rather dark colors, but here it fits! Am very curious about the masks of Philipp and Chris.

[@TheLiberalTugboat]

The revealed the masked already. Go check out their instagrams.

[@ZackTheKack]

Y'all better love Gru and treat that man right! We already miss him here in Colorado.

[@basketcrew407]

Those are SO SMOOTH I can’t! Chris Your My Favorite Player!

[@slickasbudder7360]

These are Sikk!!💥🔥...Vaughn's goalie equipment is always on point!💯💪

[@RamanN00B]

love to see it, so excited for the season to start!

[@calebyost9228]

Chris, I hope you know how much this fan base love you! It’s so cool how much you have bought in and we can’t wait to see you out there as our goalie! P.S. By the way, your pads and helmet are WAY cooler than Philip’s, but you didn’t hear that from me!

[@tophockeydeutschland]

The design looks great!

[@RandomGuyOnTheInternet05]

i must admit, that shit looks cool.

[@Void-0194]

I’m Excited for how this team will do

[@NeigeNoir1003]

I support you from Japan.

[@sharkbait22]

Those are sick pads 🔥

[@keeganbitterman990]

this is going to be a fun season

[@lemoniestlimes4016]

Im an avs fan but still im excited to see the kraken out there this season

[@benosowski9261]

Not even gonna make words up for how lit these are.

[@MTGThrownDown]

Damn. Those are some pretty damn sweet pads

[@sirokat]

As a blue jackets fan, I love the fact that goalies are now going out of their way to get their pads fully customized. When Elvis got his custom pads last season i was drooling for about five minutes straight lmao. These are fantastic as well!

[@doggin6]

Now? As a goalie, I can tell you they have new doing that for a very long time.

[@SuperTimeStretch]

Really like those. Would be cool to see an inverse color pair as well with blue pads.

[@JK_35]

Almost up there with Potvin’s set for all time best design

[@canadiansyrup527]

Those look FIRE!

[@DERTHIX]

I've been hating cause I want a team in Quebec but There's no hate here, those things are beautiful!

[@TR-sg9jc]

cLiMaTe PlEdGe ArEnA

[@bemaod]

This is great. I'd love to see the other designs they worked on.

[@--JohnDoe]

They look amazing, that blue is awsome. & that eye looks mean.

[@Davethue]

Awesome choice

[@Locomyman]

Great pads for warming the bench and opening the bench door with!

[@faiththomas1749]

He’s the goalie so unlike basketball players he’s gonna see a lot of time

[@ariilewis885]

I wonder We’re did you get the pads did you get them on a special website or place or did you made them yourself because I want something like that

[@adamford6673]

Love it looks good good luck on sunday

[@adamrmattock1]

Where is the helmet?

[@Whiteknight0721]

what is that custom jenpro color he had to match a few times ?

[@ShaneSILVA187]

I could smell that leather through my phone!!

[@dylanjacobson3112]

Big box had the glove and blocker.. makes sense.. those pads deff glow in the blacklight around the blue its gonna be a surprise

[@tylermanter1548]

I love The Kraken .

[@curtisrowlee4430]

Pads are dope. I would take the eyes off the glove and blocker.

[@johnfenn2546]

What else is in the first box

[@RyanLombergini]

Nice!

[@Starandswords]

Side job as a designer? Can’t wait to see this gear on the ice!

[@theblueoctopus4494]

Nice.

[@Axy932]

LOVE IT

[@jordanbenway4474]

Complete 🔥

[@huntermoody2000]

Woahhh those are cool

[@RyanLombergini]

Ikr!

[@place_desjardins]

Those were nice. Bauer would have just done a Digiprint of the graphics.

[@jok3r906]

These pads actually look dope from a shooters perspective and actually kinda looks like the kraken

[@kyles_wrld3675]

So sick

[@korbanashley1762]

Absolutely BUSSSIN!!!!

[@kimbat454]

All the players wear that hat, I've been looking for it for a couple weeks now with no luck. anyone have any idea where to find one?

[@Davidjon1946]

Team store online maybe ?

[@Sevastian_Donahue]

nice setup needs red stiching on the glove that would look sick

[@danw4765]

Sweet

[@THELEAFSFAN]

Cool

[@miro9670]

Coolest pads in the nhl

[@StonedSpagooter]

Its clean ill give him that

[@kyle9513]

Simple, but looks fucking great

[@LucaC27]

The perfect pads don't exi......

[@BMoney77]

Why did you incorporate the logo in your gear? That might have been the dumbest question lol

[@FreshlySnipes]

So… Are we the Krack-Heads??

[@johnnyrene5827]

🔥🔥🔥

[@careyblake4522]

I hate that Bettman made another u.s.a expansion team when making an 8th Canadian team makes a 1000x more sense especially when quebec has an arena ready to go to bring back the Nordiques and in doing that would make the world go crazy, but his hatred for Canada brought in this Seattle with a team name that sounds as if it's in NBA and a logo that looks like MLB. But gotta admit, those pads are SUPER SICK!! Can't deny that much and I think Dreidger is going to explode on that team, even though they picked the worst out of any team and messed up bad not signing care price. But I am excited none the less to see another team. Will bring that much challenge to the league 😁

[@fouronetwo813]

Relax guy. You still have to suffer the disappointment of watching the Coyotes move to Houston 😏

[@eriklakeland3857]

Not drafting injury prone Price and his albatross contract was a smart move. They have a strong goalie tandem for cheaper than just Price.

[@Davidjon1946]

I have a feeling Quebec ( who should have never lost there team) will be getting the coyotes they are playing inside a college hockey practice facility for christs sake

[@tf7274]

Who of what team is doing what? Kracken? Never heard of them...

[@rulinghabs]

Not many goalies still wearing Vaughn’s.

[@jakewhittle444]

Mysteries of the deep

[@fiver-on-yt0642]

Looks nice probably pretty expensive

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking638]

Its too bad you dont have any new Mark's on those things after the Oilers game.. Ouch.

[@ATF1985]

So the goalie picks his design and then the pad company send the gear to the nhl to be checked then it’s ship to the goalie

[@karasu_3406]

Honestly goalies should have different uniforms where they incorporate more of the logo into the entire design

[@golfkhakis]

“Why the kraken logo in the design?” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@PersonallyImGay]

I’m not a fan of Vaughn pads I prefer Bauer but what ever will make Chris play his best

[@hollywoodzero2915]

I'm not a big fan of the mostly white pads, but then again, I'm not the goalie. The tentacles are a great addition.

[@alwhite5905]

Pads look a bit like devils horns. Lol

[@billmiles2366]

I can’t be the only one seeing something else in the design of those pads

[@winslow_gaming]

😏

[@PositiveRaven]

Probably ordered the gear when he thought he was a starter..

[@Skankhunt-bl1tl]

Only in Seattle they get a black guy to report on hockey

[@BTownRailfanPNW]

Stick legs lol

[@zachgordon99]

More intelligent questions would be more entertaining in future. Not on Chris but the other guy

[@Metsfan-xx9cx]

Haha devils beat u guys lol

[@thisisaloadofbarnacles7729]

Chris blows let me have the pads

[@two_tone_xlophone2630]

poor guy, why put Driedger through some cringe unboxing video? he handled it well but jesus guys, what the PR people are doing with this team is so cringey it hurts.

[@richardjohnson8546]

The masked interviewer is just pointless virtue signalling. 🙄

[@PaulC112]

Just don't make an unboxing a jock video

[@sergeant_salty]

why is one guy in a mask and the other not? when are we gonna stop doing this stupid dance?

[@g.m3399]

Ugly design after 30 prototypes ..

[@TheGoalieMonkey]

Great design, horrible name.

[@coltonbrostuen730]

Awesome pads, terrible interview. "So just tell us, why this design? Why the kraken logo embedded within your pads?" Well mostly because thats the team I play for.