After much discussion and debating about how the Seattle Kraken would handle Jordan Eberle at the NHL trade deadline, the two sides were able to work out a contract extension at the eleventh hour. Eberle has been re-signed for two years, at a $4.75 million cap hit,...
As expected, Alex Wennberg has been traded by the Seattle Kraken. We've expected this to be the outcome for a while, and this move became a foregone conclusion when the team held Wennberg out of the lineup Monday and Tuesday for "trade-related reasons." The only...
The Seattle Kraken fell short of the ultimatum I set in last week's Monday Musings of grabbing five out of a possible six points, but I can’t be upset at the effort. The boys came away with gutsy wins against the Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins but fell short of...
With about two weeks remaining before the March 8 NHL trade deadline, the Kraken playoff picture remains murky. After picking up one point on Monday in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings, Seattle now sits three points behind the St. Louis Blues for the last...
This is Part II of What the Kraken can do with their pending unrestricted free agents. Part I can be found here. In Part I, we reviewed the Seattle's pending UFA's that are over 30 years old and outlined what can be done with each of the four players. For Part II, we...
The Kraken are inching closer to a major inflection point in their season, when their front office will need to decide which players with expiring (or soon to expire) contracts should be kept and which ones should be moved on to new teams. As Seattle has floundered...
In the two weeks before the NHL Trade Deadline every single team projected into the playoffs or within four standings points of projecting into the playoffs made a trade—that is, except for the Seattle Kraken. Of course, it is not breaking news at this point that the...
One year ago, the Seattle Kraken traded six of their regular players away for 10 draft picks in a flurry of activity in the lead-up to the NHL Trade Deadline. General manager Ron Francis and his staff were in full sell mode with the team proving to be one of the worst...
Earlier this week I looked at Seattle Kraken GM Ron Francis’s history at the NHL Trade Deadline and what it can tell us about the likely approach of the Kraken front office this year. In this second installment of the trade deadline series, I’m going to take a look at...
Emerging from the All-Star break of their second season, the Seattle Kraken sit tied atop the Pacific Division standings with 63 points. Seattle is also tied for third in total standings points and second in points percentage in the entire Western Conference. And the...
At the NHL Trade Deadline, the Sound Of Hockey panel provided instant reactions to Seattle’s trades. And earlier in the playoffs, Darren Brown updated the progress of the departed Kraken. But with the playoff runs of all of the Kraken’s trade partners now at a close...
In this season of firsts, the Kraken have now made it through their first NHL Trade Deadline, and it was an active one for the franchise. Indeed, “bold” predictions calling on management to look to the future and make three trades look downright mild in...
