Welcome to “Down on the Farm,” your weekly Seattle Kraken prospects update. This week, we’ll have an update on the happenings around the system, including a player facing league discipline and one more Olympics update. After that, we’ll have additional Kraken prospect news, video, and data updates, the Sound Of Hockey Prospect of the Week, and a preview of the week ahead, as always.
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Goyette suspended for violation of PED policy
The Seattle Kraken announced this week that Kraken forward prospect David Goyette had been suspended 20 games for a violation of the American Hockey League–Pro Hockey Players Association Performance Enhancing Substance Program. Goyette, 21, has three goals and seven assists in 47 AHL games this season. In his final game before the suspension was announced, he had perhaps his most impressive offensive play of the season.
LETS GO GOYSYYYY!!
— Coachella Valley Firebirds (@Firebirds) February 16, 2026
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“We fully support the Performance Enhancing Substance Program and hope this was a learning experience for David,” Kraken GM Jason Botterill said in a statement.
David Goyette addressed the suspension in a statement too, saying, “I did not knowingly or intentionally use any prohibited substance, and I have never tried to gain an unfair advantage. However, I understand I am responsible for what enters my body, and I accept the league’s decision. I’m sorry to my teammates, the organization, and the fans.
“I’ll work with the program to determine how this happened and will be fully prepared to return when my suspension ends.”
Goyette missed his first game due to the suspension on Wednesday, Feb. 18. He will be eligible to return to the Firebirds lineup on April 10, when the Firebirds host the Ontario Reign. The team will have only five regular-season games remaining at that point, so it remains to be seen what role, if any, Goyette will be able to carve out at that time. The 2022 second-round pick has one season remaining on his entry-level contract.
Notes on three Kraken prospects
Oscar Fisker Mølgaard | F | Denmark (Olympics)
Team Denmark fell short of the medal rounds but notched a win over Latvia in its four games. Oscar Fisker Mølgaard had a goal and two assists in those four contests. His three points were tied for second on the team. It was yet another strong international showing for Mølgaard.
Alexis Bernier | D | Chicoutimi Saguenéens (QMJHL)
Bernier got a late start to his season due to offseason ACL reconstruction surgery, but he has navigated his return successfully, playing in eight straight games for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens. His season hit another gear this past week when he recorded not just his first goal of the season but his first three goals. With an assist, too, in three games, Bernier is your Sound Of Hockey Prospect of the Week.
Alexis Bernier, goal scoring machine! 🏒
— QMJHL (@QMJHL) February 15, 2026
He goes with the wraparound, for his 2nd goal in as many games! @SagueneensLHJMQ @SeattleKraken | #SeaKrakenpic.twitter.com/p5wGR51gK6
Jani Nyman | F | Coachella Valley Firebirds (AHL)
Nyman keeps piling up goals at the AHL level, with two more in three Firebirds games this week. His .65 goals per game are second in the AHL behind only Isak Rosen, who is about a year older than Nyman. If the objective was for Nyman to recapture his scoring mentality with an eye toward grabbing the next available top-nine NHL role, he is doing everything he can.
Kraken prospects data update
Zaccharya Wisdom had two goals and two assists in two games last week. His four points pushed his season total to 24, which is a new NCAA career high for Wisdom.
Jake O’Brien’s seven points last week brought his season total to 69 in 41 games. He is third in the entire CHL in points per game (among those with at least 10 games played), behind only Cole Beaudoin and Tij Iginla, both of whom are a year older than O’Brien.
Semyon Vyazovoi continues to earn the lion’s share of the starts for his team and maintain his top-five save-percentage position in the KHL. There’s no doubt in my mind he’s ready for the North American challenge.
Kim Saarinen, 19, has a .917 save percentage on the season, which is the second-best mark in Liiga. Perhaps more impressively, he is 15 points clear of the next-best save percentage by any goalie age 22 or younger (Matthieu Herpin, .902).
Sound Of Hockey Prospect of the Week tracker
3: Jagger Firkus, Kim Saarinen
2: Jake O’Brien, Julius Miettinen, Nathan Villeneuve, Semyon Vyazovoi
1: Alexis Bernier, Barrett Hall, Ollie Josephson, Tyson Jugnauth, Nikke Kokko, Logan Morrison, Victor Ostman, Zaccharya Wisdom
Previewing the week ahead
This week’s Deep Sea Hockey Games of the Week are a couple of NCHC matchups pitting Ollie Josephson and North Dakota against Barrett Hall and St. Cloud State.
Tracking 2026 NHL Draft prospects: Malte Gustafsson
Malte Gustafsson is a smooth-skating, 6-foot-4, left-shot defenseman with a lot of high-level experience in the SHL and for the Swedish National Team. He has the potential to be a plus puck-moving defenseman, rush defender, and in-zone net-front presence, though many aspects of his game are carried by his strong athletic traits at this point. There is an easy middle-pair projection here. Gustafsson ranked No. 21 on the mid-season Big Board.
Recent prospect updates
February 13, 2026: Projecting NHL futures for Logan Morrison and Jagger Firkus
February 6, 2026: Seattle Kraken prospects midseason mailbag
January 30, 2026: Kraken prospect trade value tiers
January 23, 2026: Alexis Bernier set to return, early 2026 NHL Draft thoughts
January 16, 2026: Jacob Melanson is speeding toward an NHL future despite the demotion
January 9, 2026: World Juniors reports, CHL trades
January 2, 2026: Mid-season Kraken prospect ranking
December 26, 2025: Watching Kraken prospects at the 2026 World Junior Championship
December 20, 2025: Resetting Seattle Kraken draft capital after the Mason Marchment trade
December 13, 2025: Ryan Jankowski talks Kraken prospects
December 5, 2025: World Juniors Announcements, Kokko saving the day for the Firebirds
Curtis Isacke
Curtis is a Sound Of Hockey contributor and member of the Kraken press corps. Curtis is an attorney by day, and he has read the NHL collective bargaining agreement and bylaws so you don’t have to. He can be found analyzing the Kraken, NHL Draft, and other hockey topics on Twitter and Bluesky @deepseahockey.
sorry if this has been asked before, but how should the data score be interpreted and how is it calculated? hopefully the there are more roster spots next year id love to see Firkus and Nyman in the lineup.
With Semyon Vyazovoi signed to the KHL through the 2026/27 season is there any hope he comes over next year? I know we hold his rights for a long time but look at what happened with Ivan Fedotov with the KHL.