The Seattle Kraken are in a bit of a tough spot with pending UFAs, their offer to Artemi Panarin, and the Shane Wright trade asset.
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – NHL Trade Deadline: A Buyers’ Market episode. The Seattle Kraken have a bunch of pending UFAs but are still in the playoff race.
** NHLRumors.com transcriptions
Friedman: “Seattle. Seattle’s got a bunch of guys unsigned, like Jamie Oleksiak. They’re still in the playoffs race, but they’ve come out of the gate. They’ve had two really ugly losses, including one of them to St Louis. It’s not, doesn’t make you feel great about yourself, but they are in the playoff race, and I think that’s very important to them.
You want to know what somebody said to me at the Olympics, Kyle, about one of the… I heard this, and another player told me heard it too. So I was in the mix zone with one of the players, and he says, ‘Did you hear what the Kraken offered Panarin,’ and I said, ‘I heard a number.’
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And he goes, ‘What did you hear?’ And I told him, and he said, ‘That’s what we heard, too.’ And so it was three years at ($14.25 million) per. Kraken are serious man.”
Bukauskas: “So that’s why, you think they’re still serious about this year.”
Friedman: “I think they’re serious about getting a player who can electrify them offensively.”
Bukauskas: “Right. That moves the needle there.”
Friedman: “Shane Wright. That’s, that’s where they move Shane Wright. And, you know, or they move him for another young, talented player.
Now, Matt Marchese, when I brought this up on the radio, he said, you know, they could do, they could do him for (Alexis) Lafreniere from the Rangers, right? And I said, I don’t believe that’s the case. I think that if those two teams wanted to do that deal, it would be done already. So I don’t think that’s the deal.”
Bukauskas: “Okay, but you think he still potentially could be an option.”
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Friedman: “I still think Wright for the right offensive stud or young player that they really like.”
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