As we make our way through the offseason, there still is a ton of questions to be answered. There are big-name free agents (Vladimir Tarasenko, Patrick Kane, Matt Dumba) that have yet to find a home for next season.
Over the weekend, the Seattle Kraken announced deals with two of the team’s restricted free agents. First, on Saturday, Forward Kole Lind signed a one-year, two-way deal, worth $775,000 at the NHL level.
Now that a full week has passed since the free agent market opened up on July 1, there are still quite a few quality players left on the market. Let's look at the best at various positions.
The Seattle Kraken have signed defenseman Cale Fleury to a two-year contract worth $800,000 average annual value, thus avoiding arbitration. The Kraken
The Seattle Kraken have signed defenseman Cale Fleury to a two-year, $1.6 million contract. According to CapFriendly, the contract will have an average annual value (AAV) of $800,000.
The Seattle Kraken continued to add some depth to their forward group, signing Pierre-Édouard Bellemare to a one-year deal worth $775,000. The 38-year-old had been with the Tampa Bay Lightning for the last two years, where he helped them make the Stanley Cup Final during the 2021-22 season.
SEATTLE On Friday, the Seattle Kraken announced that they came to a new arrangement with restricted free agent defenseman Will Borgen for two years, $2.7 million per year.
The Seattle Kraken made two moves on Friday afternoon. First, the team announced it was signing veteran, unrestricted free agent forward Pierre-Édouard Bellemare to a one-year, league minimum $775,000 contract.
The Seattle Kraken came to terms with RFA defenceman Will Borgen on a new contract. The deal runs for two years, expiring after the 2025 season. Borgen earns a total of $5.4 million, equating to an $2.7 million cap hit annually.
Keeping Borgen for another two seasons shows that GM Ron Francis is committed to maintaining the shot-limiting culture that propped up a shaky goaltending battery throughout the regular season and two seven-game series in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reports that the Seattle Kraken have signed defenseman William Borgen to a two-year contract extension.
The Seattle Kraken have signed center Pierre-Edouard Bellemare to a one-year, $775,000 contract.
The Seattle Kraken added some veteran depth with the signing of center Pierre-Edouard Bellemare.
A day after adding Brain Dumoulin to the blue line, the Seattle Kraken made another NHL level move, signing Spokane, Wash., native Kailer Yamamoto to bolster the team’s forward group.
After a rather underwhelming inaugural season, the Seattle Kraken rebounded in a big way in their 2022-23 campaign. Here's a look at whose stock is rising, falling or unclear.
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Day one of NHL free agency came and went over the weekend. With 166 signings worth a total of $650 million (per CapFriendly), teams got to work fast. Most franchises opted for shorter term deals, a trend that continued beyond day one as well.
Erik Karlsson has made it known that he would like a trade out of San Jose. Here’s how the Seattle Kraken front office can bring him to the Pacific Northwest.
The Seattle Kraken added some experience on the blue line during the opening day of free agency, signing defenceman Brian Dumoulin to a two-year deal worth $6.3 million.
As free agency opened on July 1, the Kraken started with some minor business, signing players likely to spend at least some time with the Coachella Valley Firebirds this season on one-year contracts, including Jimmy Schuldt, John Hayden, and Marian Studenic.
Kailer Yamamoto and the Seattle Kraken have made a little history, agreeing to a deal that will make him the first Washingtonian to play NHL hockey for a team in his home state.
The Seattle Kraken have signed Pacific Northwest native Kailer Yamamoto.
The Seattle Kraken are returning Kailer Yamamoto to his home state. The Spokane, Washington native and former Edmonton Oiler has signed a one-year, $1.5M deal with the NHL’s youngest franchise.
Caden Price, selected No. 84 overall by the Seattle Kraken in this week’s NHL Entry Draft, is a 6-foot-1 left-handed defenseman who has played the last two seasons with the Kelowna Rockets of the WHL.
The Vancouver Canucks have announced they have signed Carson Soucy. Soucy has signed a new contract that will carry him through the 2025-26 season. This contract carries an annual cap hit of $3.25 per season.
The Seattle Kraken didn’t bring Lord Stanley’s Cup back to the Emerald City. Still, their 2022-23 season was a triumph and laid the foundation for future success.
Game 7. Nothing like it. We have but one conference finalist left to be decided as the Kraken and Stars battle it out tonight in Dallas. It's been a fun series to watch and a fun one to bet, and we're loading up a few scoring props that have been quite steady throughout the series.
The Kraken continued the theme of upsets in this year's postseason, stunning the defending Stanley Cup Champion Avalanche, 2-1, in Game 7 Sunday to earn their first series win as a franchise.
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