We are updating our Expansion Draft protected lists and Seattle Kraken watchlists all week. Monday we went through the Scotia North Division, and today we step through the Honda West Division. Anaheim Ducks Ducks Protected List Watchlist Max Jones was a player who had...
Sound of Hockey’s writers make their selections for the best music to get Climate Pledge Arena rocking at Seattle Kraken games. What songs would you pick?
Loyal Sound Of Hockey readers will know that we have been publishing a synopsis on every NHL team participating in the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft this summer. We identified open issues facing the clubs, potential protected lists, and who the Kraken might keep an...
Well, gang, it took three whole months, but we finally did it. We successfully profiled all 30 of the teams that will be participating in the 2021 Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft. We at Sound Of Hockey have put our blood, sweat, and tears into this thing, and...
The Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning found themselves in a tough spot this offseason in regard to salary cap compliance heading into the 2020-21 season. They were already against the salary cap when they signed restricted free agents Mikhail Sergachev, Erik...
Seattle Kraken news Climate Pledge Arena gets topped off The new home for the Seattle Kraken has reached a major milestone. Friday morning, the last steel beam was installed at Climate Pledge Arena. The ceremony took place in front of construction workers from...
The New York Islanders, to many's annoyance but to some's enjoyment, made a deep run in the NHL's Playoff Bubble with good ole-fashioned defensive hockey. It's a style of play that worked quite well for the Eastern Conference Finalists, but didn't inspire much...
The process for our Expansion Draft profiles has been to go from worst to first in terms of where teams finished last season. Thus, the Detroit Red Wings—who were historically bad in 2019-2020—were our first profile, while the Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning...
It's not often that teams manage to include three disgruntled players in the same trade. But that's exactly what Winnipeg and Columbus were able to accomplish this past weekend. The Blue Jackets traded wunderkind center Pierre-Luc Dubois and a third-round pick in 2022...
The Colorado Avalanche are in the middle of a Stanley Cup contending window that only comes around once every 25 years, if you are lucky. After an earlier-than-expected exit in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, general manager Joe Sakic made only a few tweaks to the...
The Philadelphia Flyers had a breakout season of sorts last year. They finished one point out of first place in the Metropolitan Division when the league stopped but were top four in the Eastern Conference and earned a bye during the qualifying round. While it was a...
Look ahead to the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft to see which Vancouver Canucks player will head south to join the Seattle Kraken for their inaugural season.
