Sounds like I was smart not to pay $10 for the 1 week Sportsnet subscription, lol.

I actually can’t believe the Seattle Kraken could be the worst team in the Pacific… on purpose.. without side deals….

Ron Francis and company have actually trolled Seattle fans - and that 630 million dollar fee for a half assed draft.

Not even personal bias. That was a terribly constructed draft.

Why is everyone trashing on Seattle’s roster? Is it just because the expansion draft was boring?

Because if we think back to our thoughts on Vegas after the expansion draft, I’d say this team is better on paper than the Golden Knights were before their first season.

Why is everyone trashing on Seattle’s roster? Is it just because the expansion draft was boring?

Because if we think back to our thoughts on Vegas after the expansion draft, I’d say this team is better on paper than the Golden Knights were before their first season.

Edit: Now obviously Vegas was in a better position for the future because they had 2 extra 1sts, but Seattle is looking better in the short term than Vegas was in the summer of 2017.

If YOU had CAREY Frickin' PRICE sitting there at centre-ice waiting to have his stick picked out from the pile to play on your new team...would you pick someone named Cale instead...?

The price omission isn’t a problem; it’s the lack of side deals and glaring misses. Bean is a massive hole that’s shows personal bias because the fact NINO and BEAN were “worse” than Geekie is just disgusting. Something is wrong mentally there. At least the Price decision had fair arguments for both sides. Leaving Bean and Nino are just… there’s no words.

You may think that's not a probelm - no problem; get it haha...
But I want to get my US$650M + + money back before I pass and CP moves the needle! He gets merch flowing more than the other '30' by mile$$ and he can be flipped later, if it chokes, to a playoff sheep club needing assurance in goal for a run...
Ron Francis will be an an-al-yst @ ESPN by Xmas...

If I were the Kraken gm I simply would have taken the best players on the best contracts possible but maybe I’m just built dif

If I were the Kraken gm I simply would have taken the best players on the best contracts possible but maybe I’m just built dif

If I were the Kraken gm I simply would have taken the best players on the best contracts possible but maybe I’m just built dif

Kraken management dreams of Shane Wright for the next 12 months.

#DontReleaseTheKraken

If I were the Kraken gm I simply would have taken the best players on the best contracts possible but maybe I’m just built dif

My take on who they should've picked with no side deals in place

ANA - Fleury
ARI - Pitlick
BOS - Lauzon
BUF - Borgen
CGY - Giordano
CAR - Bean
CHI - De Haan
COL - Donskoi
CBJ - Kukan
DAL - Comeau*
DET - Stecher
EDM - Larsson
FLA - Driedger
LA - Clague
MIN - Kähkönen
MTL - Price
NSH - Järnkrok
NJ - Bastian
NYR - Blackwell
NYI - Eberle
OTT - Daccord
PHI - Van Riemsdyk
PIT - Pettersson
STL - Tarasenko
SJ - Gambrell
TB - Gourde
TOR - McCann
VAN - Lind
WSH - Vanecek
WPG - Appleton

*note: if Oleksiak costs that much Comeau would've made more sense

Then roll the lines
Van Riemsdyk - McCann - Tarasenko
Donskoi - Gourde - Eberle
Järnkrok - Appleton - Lind
Comeau - Blackwell - Bastian

Giordano - Larsson
Bean - De Haan
Pettersson - Lauzon

Driedger
Kähkönen

Reserves: Clague, Borgen, Gambrell

LTIR: Price - he'd be out anyway for a good while due to that injury.

That roster would be at around $69M in cap. And with Price coming back it'd be $79M.

Trade Vanecek, Stecher, Blackwell, Fleury, Pitlick and Kukan for future assets. Given their low cap hit and favorable roles in other teams they could actually make huge wins out of them.

Daccord can be slotted in the AHL since he's waivers exempt.

They only did that for 4 teams: isles, leafs , blues, and lightning

Hyman will be traded to the Oilers tomorrow. 8 years 5.5-6M

My take on who they should've picked with no side deals in place

ANA - Fleury
ARI - Pitlick
BOS - Lauzon
BUF - Borgen
CGY - Giordano
CAR - Bean
CHI - De Haan
COL - Donskoi
CBJ - Kukan
DAL - Comeau*
DET - Stecher
EDM - Larsson
FLA - Driedger
LA - Clague
MIN - Kähkönen
MTL - Price
NSH - Järnkrok
NJ - Bastian
NYR - Blackwell
NYI - Eberle
OTT - Daccord
PHI - Van Riemsdyk
PIT - Pettersson
STL - Tarasenko
SJ - Gambrell
TB - Gourde
TOR - McCann
VAN - Lind
WSH - Vanecek
WPG - Appleton

*note: if Oleksiak costs that much Comeau would've made more sense

Then roll the lines
Van Riemsdyk - McCann - Tarasenko
Donskoi - Gourde - Eberle
Järnkrok - Appleton - Lind
Comeau - Blackwell - Bastian

Giordano - Larsson
Bean - De Haan
Pettersson - Lauzon

Driedger
Kähkönen

Reserves: Clague, Borgen, Gambrell

LTIR: Price - he'd be out anyway for a good while due to that injury.

That roster would be at around $69M in cap. And with Price coming back it'd be $79M.

Trade Vanecek, Stecher, Fleury, Pitlick and Kukan for future assets. Given their low cap hit and favorable roles in other teams they could actually make huge wins out of them.

Daccord can be slotted in the AHL since he's waivers exempt.

Shane Wright SZN for the Kraken