Eduard Sale (pronounced SHAH-lay), selected No. 20 overall by the Seattle Kraken, is a 6-foot-2 left-shot winger. He played at the professional level this season in perhaps the third-best league in the world, Czechia's Extraliga, for HC Kometa Brno. Quick thoughts on...
It has been a while since we have done a round of Musings, but with a crazy week ahead across the league, I thought it was time I dusted off the template and shared some thoughts before we head into the NHL Entry Draft and then free agency. Managing expectations of...
It’s draft week, and that means a lot of content here at Sound Of Hockey. John Barr and Darren Brown will be talking about the draft on this week’s Sound Of Hockey Podcast. On the website, check out: The Sound Of Hockey Big Board, compiling rankings and other data for...
Welcome to year two of the Sound Of Hockey Big Board for the NHL Entry Draft. It’s back and better than ever. What is the Big Board? It’s a compilation of reputable draft analyst and public scouting service lists and an overall composite ranking built on those lists....
The 2023 NHL Scouting Combine took place in Buffalo, N.Y., from Monday through Saturday of last week. 106 draft-eligible prospects attended. One aspect of the combine is a battery of physical measurements and tests that afford teams further data on these top...
We are now within four weeks of the NHL Entry Draft. This means we are close to the return of the Sound Of Hockey Big Board. Last year, we compiled public rankings from 19 draft reporters and scouting services and ranked 675 prospects. In the coming weeks, I’ll...
It is that time of year where we all do some self-reflecting, so I thought it would be a great time to share my top 10 Seattle Kraken events of 2022. #10 - The 2022 trade deadline On the surface, the Kraken did not have one specific big trade that overwhelmed fans,...
Along with Kraken fans, we here at Sound Of Hockey continue to wait on any late-breaking news regarding NHL-level roster moves. We will cover it here whenever any additional transactions are announced. In the meantime, however, we wanted to revisit Seattle's crucial...
SEATTLE – Shane Wright said it best this week when describing how hearing his name called at the NHL Draft fulfilled a childhood dream. He’s right, and most of the players participating in the Seattle Kraken’s first development camp lived that dream out in some way....
After an eventful draft for the Seattle Kraken, the team's prospect development camp gets underway at the Kraken Community Iceplex in Seattle on Monday. With qualifying offers due just a couple hours after that, and NHL free agency scheduled to open Wednesday, July...
Friday morning the NHL Entry Draft moved into rounds two through seven, and the Seattle Kraken were quite busy. Coming into Friday, Seattle had 11 remaining picks, highlighted by four in the second round. The Kraken ended up with 10 picks after making one trade with...
First thought Complete and utter chaos. But Corey Pronman called it. And I doubted it. It is easy to imagine both Matty Beniers and Shane Wright donning the Deep Sea Blue in Seattle's top-six forward group for many years to come. He was not on our radar in the mock...
