Seattle Kraken

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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All the Seattle Kraken’s leaked Expansion Draft picks

The Seattle Kraken submitted their picks for the Expansion Draft at 10:30 AM. Since then, their selections have been leaking out via Twitter.

For Capitals fans, the biggest news of the day was that goaltender Vitek Vanecek was picked by Seattle over other notables like Nick Jensen, Brenden Dillon, and Conor Sheary.

Meanwhile, Carey Price, who was the most intriguing possible pick of the draft, is staying put in Montreal.

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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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Report: Seattle Kraken pass on picking Carey Price in Expansion Draft

The most intriguing mystery of the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft is now known.

The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun is reporting that Kraken GM Ron Francis opted not to pick Carey Price. The Hart Trophy-winning goaltender will remain with the Montreal Canadiens.

The news comes a little over an hour after the Kraken’s draft list was turned in to the NHL (10 AM).

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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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Report: Seattle Kraken ownership gives Ron Francis green light to select Carey Price

The Carey Price saga took another turn on Monday.

NHL insider Frank Seravalli is reporting that Seattle Kraken ownership has given GM Ron Francis the “full green light” to select Price in the Expansion Draft. If it happens, Price would be the Kraken’s biggest selection in terms of star power.

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By Ian Oland 6 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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