Big fan of this. It gives you the future C they need. And one that has real chemistry with your top prospect.

I doubt they put othmann on the RW, that will be vesey

Seattle has no reason to trade Wright. They’re letting him develop and a spot probably opens up next year with Wennberg and possibly Gourde gone

Anaheim likely passes

Incredibly easy no for Seattle

Garand is a nobody, a pick in the 50s or 60s and Kakko, who is older, a winger and has a much lower floor.

Not even close for Shane Wright.

And that offer for Frank Vatrano is blown away.

Saying Garand is a nobody is proof you didn't do your HW. Young goalie playing well in the AHL, <2 years from winning the best goalie in the CHL and backstopping canada to the U20 wjc gold medal. Arguably a top 10 goalie prospect rn.

Kakko's floor is similar to Wrights, but Wright does has a higher ceiling (for now, saying this because since kakko is ~3 years older he's more known in terms of what he will be as an NHLer). Hard to compare the two since Kakko never spent time in the AHL (was definitely needed). Wright has only played 11 nhl games (he has 2 points in d+1&d+2 to date) so it's a little to small of a sample, even when just comparing to Kakko's rookie year (d+1, 23 points in 66 games). For the higher ceiling, they get Garand + 2nd. And I wouldn't knock a 2nd round pick, Cuylle (60), Poitras (54), Knies (57), Moser (60), Faber (45) were all mid-late second rounders since 2020.

Wright needed a couple of years out of the media hype to get his game right. Better for him to play in the AHL and get top line minutes than play on the 4th line in the NHL and get 5-8 minutes per night. He's no out of favor with the club. My guess is he is up with the Kraken after the TDL if Wennberg gets moved. Also dependent on if the team wants to burn a year of his contract from the TDL to the end of the regular season.

I live in Hartford I go to Wolfpack games all the time lmao. He is 21 and has an incredible team in front of him.

Garand is a career backup at best. And considering backups typically go for late picks, why would he be no different if thats his ceiling? Cmon

Top 10?

Jesper Wallstedt
Dustin Wolf
Alexei Kolosov
Yaroslav Askarov
Niklas Kokko
Sergei Murashov
Trey Augustine
Jacob Fowler
Michael Hrabal
Sergei Ivanov

Thats 10, and he aint close to any of them

Drew Commesso
Carl Lindbom
Erik Portillo
Joel Blomqvist
Artur Akhtyamov
Spencer Knight
Rémi Poirier
Carson Bjarnason
Arturs Silovs
Adam Gajan
Nico Daws
Mads Sogaard
Dennis Hildeby
Hugo Alnefelt
Scott Ratzlaff
Sebastian Cossa
Justus Annunen
Oliver Rodrigue
Arno Tiefensee

He is borderline top 30 lol.

And that package is pathetic to move a recent top 5 pick who is developing well. Zero reason for them to do that when they can realistically get Kakko for much cheaper alone