Ryan Donato has signed a new contract with the Seattle Kraken.

No risk to this. Easy deadline trade as well. Win for Seattle.

This guy was a point and a half per game in the NCAA, what in the world happened.
Fine contract.

Exactly! He was expected to be so much more. He did put up a career high in Seattle this season, but just not what he was projected to be.

Great deal for Seattle. After he was traded to Seattle he was quite good. Good signing

interesting they didnt give him a QO on 750K salary but then offer 1.2M...
certainly accumulating quality depth pieces tho

If they had offered him a QO, he would’ve had arbitration rights. Coming off a 30 point season, he probably would’ve cost closer to 2 million.

Worth the risk

I was wondering if he could be a depth replacement for the leafs if they made a cap clearing forward move.

It's a put up or shut up year for him

Thanks for that explanation. It didn’t make sense to me either. I guess they weighed the risk of losing him as a UFA versus the possibility of being stuck with paying him more than they wanted to, and they decided they’d rather risk losing him.

But isn’t there a rule that says that the team can refuse the arbitration award and let him go as a UFA at that time? I think they can only play that card once per year, but after Geekie signed, Donato would have been their only arbitration case.

i think theres a limit like its only on deals over $4M or something, not if it's $2M

Good signing, still has good potential. Wouldn't be the first player to have their first 20+G season after turning 25.

p.s. Pulling for Bobby Ryan

scored more than Puljujarvi did last year....and less than half the cost.