Expansion Draft

Carolina Hurricanes unveil new logo after ESPN broadcast calls them the Carolina Panthers during Expansion Draft

There were no surprises in the first half of the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft, as the Seattle Kraken proceeded to draft its first roster in franchise history, mostly because nearly every one of the Kraken’s picks leaked several hours prior.

But midway through the program, ESPN broadcaster Chris Fowler had a slip of the tongue heard ’round the hockey world. Fowler announced that Seattle’s next pick would be coming from…the Carolina Panthers.

Oops.

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By Elizabeth Kong 4 days ago

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Highlights of the Seattle Kraken’s Expansion Draft

On December 4, 2018, the NHL’s Board of Governors officially announced the approval of Seattle’s expansion bid to become the league’s 32nd team. Now, over two and a half years later, the Seattle Kraken are finally drafting their first roster in franchise history.

Despite nearly every team’s drafted pick leaking to the public ahead of the televised Expansion Draft on ESPN2, the broadcast still had some surprises – from botches of names to picks made by sea creatures.

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By Elizabeth Kong and Ian Oland 4 days ago

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New Seattle Kraken merch available in NHL’s online store

The Seattle Kraken will make their inaugural roster official during the Expansion Draft on Wednesday night.

For hockey fans who want to support the team or just simply love good design, the Kraken have added a bunch of new merch to the NHL Store ahead of the draft.

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By Ian Oland 4 days ago

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Seattle Kraken select Capitals goaltender Vitek Vanecek in Expansion Draft

The Seattle Kraken submitted their Expansion Draft list at 10 AM and all the names are slowly leaking out.

NHL insider Frank Seravalli is reporting that the Capitals will lose goaltender Vitek Vanecek to the Kraken. Vanecek will join Chris Driedger (Florida UFA) and Joey Daccord (Ottawa) in net. Seattle ultimately passed on picking superstar Carey Price from the Montreal Canadiens.

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By Ian Oland 4 days ago

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A red herring? Leaked Expansion Draft video shows Seattle Kraken selecting Alex Kerfoot via fish toss.

Who the Seattle Kraken select in Wednesday night’s Expansion Draft is a deep-sea mystery (update: not anymore), but social media, as it is wont to do, is doing its best to ruin the surprise.

Tuesday, Hockey Twitter submerged into chaos when a leaked video showed the NHL Network’s Kevin Weekes announcing one of the Kraken’s picks, Alexander Kerfoot of the Toronto Maple Leafs, after catching a giant fish in Pike Place Market.

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By Ian Oland 4 days ago

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Who we’d pick in the Expansion Draft if we ran the Seattle Kraken

Every NHL team, minus the Vegas Golden Knights, submitted their protected list over the weekend in preparation for Wednesday’s Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft. In doing so, teams made several big names available to be picked by Seattle.

It’s nearly impossible to predict who the Kraken will draft. But I acted as if I were general manager Ron Francis and built the best team possible while staying under the salary cap with all 30 players (in reality, they can exceed the NHL’s salary cap by 10-percent in the offseason).

Here’s what I came up with.

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By Chris Cerullo 5 days ago

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Capitals players available for the expansion draft, ranked

The Washington Capitals have turned in their protected lists for this upcoming week’s expansion draft by the Seattle Kraken. There are a lot of big names available, and Seattle has some very big and wrinkly brains making decisions for them. With all that in mind, let us now mentally prepare to lose one of our nephews. I’ve arranged them into tiers based on how likely each player is to be selected. That way you can prioritize your despair.

Also, I am once again obligated to remind you that the last expansion draft was brutal on the Capitals, taking away an unappreciated, talented young defender and leaving the team barely able to win the Stanley Cup against him the next season.

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By Peter Hassett 7 days ago

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Report: Seattle Kraken taking ‘deep dive internally’ on selecting Carey Price in Expansion Draft

The Montreal Canadiens might have, to borrow from WWE vocabulary, worked themselves into a shoot, brother.

Friday night, reports surfaced that Carey Price waived his no-movement clause so the Habs could make him available in the Expansion Draft and protect backup Jake Allen (2.68 GAA, .907 SV%). The thought process here was that Price’s contract is so massive (bad) and that there are so many other good/better value goaltenders available, the Kraken would not think twice about drafting Price.

Except. They totally are. And now a section of Habs Twitter is losing its mind about it.

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By Ian Oland 7 days ago

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Here’s every player available for the expansion draft

The NHL has released the list of all available players for Wednesday’s expansion draft for the Seattle Kraken.

There are some VERY big names on the list.

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By Peter Hassett 1 week ago

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Caps expansion-draft protected list revealed: Oshie, Samsonov, Kuznetsov, Sprong on the list

The list of Washington Capitals players available for and protected from the Seattle Kraken expansion draft is now known.

Among others, the Caps have chosen to protect American hero TJ Oshie, goalie Ilya Samsonov, controversial forward Evgeny Kuznetsov, and young forward Daniel Sprong. Defender Trevor van Riemsdyk is a surprise inclusion on the protected list.

The Kraken’s choice from the list of available players will be announced on Wednesday.

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By Peter Hassett 1 week ago

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