Jet Black Jim has to prioritize Pettersson and Hughes’ contracts in a flat cap world before spending elsewhere. Everyone would be pissed if did he didn’t.

His hands are tied until those contracts are signed and its due to circumstance IMO.

who did you expect him to get?

no real big names got moved really

Graves was a huge one.

Carolina has 3 amazing young Dmen and 1 of them will be exposed.

TBL has to expose some big names.

It may be that teams are wary after the fallout from the VGK expansion but…….. stuff was definitely out there that we needed and it was our best shot in a flat cap.

Well apparently GMJB was in on Graves but judging what the Devils gave up, we would of had to give up a 2nd and a Lockwood/Gadjovich type player to get him. Maybe its worth it to some, but Graves doesnt solve the big hole on the right side.

I think after the Vegas expansion, GMs realise that if u multiple good players being exposed, its best just to lose 1 rather than trade 1 of them for pennies on the dollar and then seattle just picking another good player off your roster.

I would have had zero issues with Gad or Lockwood and a pick for Graves… I don’t think Gad will ever make the NHL

Looking at the lists today. It show teams are willing to lost a player. After vgk, doing less is better trying to do too much I suppose.

Look at Nashville. Exposing their two centres. Trading away arcidsson.

Montreal really selling it ... don't pick Carey, don't pick Carey!

Montreal kneeds Price back.

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Official #canucks protection list

Protected: Boeser, Dickinson, Horvat, Miller, Motte, Pearson, Pettersson, Juolevi, Myers, Schmidt, Demko.
Available: Beagle, Eriksson, Highmore, MacEwen, Rouseel, Virtanen, Bowey, Holtby.

I doubt that the Kraken GM will take our overpaid fourth line players such as Beagle and Roussel. -definitely not Loui. LUL

make them sweat a bit :lol

Would the Canadiens be that bad off to lose Price? I think it's a great bold move by their management even if he gets taken... they kinda lucked out to get as far as they did in the playoffs, their team isn't that good and Price has maybe 1 or 2 elite years left in him at most? Getting rid of that salary would be a godsend for them to do a quick retool/rebuild they have so many great under 23 players. I think it's safe to say the window for winning a Cup with Price has almost shut with him being 33 now... he's turning 34 in August.

If they shed Price and Weber's salary that's like $20 million off their cap...

Bergie has always had Randy Marsh sized balls

So we lose Lind to the Kracken... It's crazy the entire list has leaked already!! ESPN must be so pissed since this is their first NHL broadcast.

Seattle Kraken Roster Thus far, based on Leaks on Twitter:

Anaheim - D Haydn Fleury
Arizona -
Boston - D Jeremy Lauzon
Buffalo - D Will Borgen
Calgary - D Mark Giordano
Carolina - F Morgan Geekie
Chicago -
Colorado - F Joonas Donskoi
Columbus - D Gavin Bayreuther
Dallas - D Jamie Oleksiak
Detroit -
Edmonton - D Adam Larsson
Florida - G Chris Driedger
Los Angeles - D Kurtis MacDermid
Minnesota - D Carson Soucy
Montreal - D Cale Fleury
Nashville - F Calle Jarnkrok
New Jersey - F Nathan Bastian
NYI -
NYR -
Ottawa - G Joey Daccord
Philadelphia - F Carson Twarynski
Pittsburgh - F Brandon Tanev
San Jose - F Alex True
St. Louis - D Vince Dunn
Tampa -
Toronto - F Jared McCann
Vancouver - F Kole Lind
Washington - G Vitek Vanecek
Winnipeg - F Mason Appleton

For those who want to see who the Kraken picked here is the list. I added a spoiler incase no one wants to find out already.

Yeah...lol someone is getting fired haha

I'm hoping this builds up to some sort of trades to this evening.

Plus Kraken drafting all low cap players.

looks like the trades open tomorrow at 1pm.

Very nice D corps, good goaltending, hard working forward group with questionable scoring ability though

That is a deep deep backend.

Mark Giordano, Adam Larsson, Vince Dunn, Hayden Fleury, Jamie Oleksiak, and Jeremy Lauzon as the probable top 6? Some strong candidates in the wings. I wouldn't be surprised if the Kraken trade of their D for a more offensive player. I agree with 68, it is going to be hard to find scoring with that lineup. I would have taken a flyer on one of Tarasenko or Ryan Johansen based on cap space.

lol, wished you included the first names.
I thought some players were traded by just reading the last name. I didn't know there were so many players with the same last names.

Kraken y u no pickup Canucks players with shit contracts :yuno:

Only thing to look forward to now is if there were any side deals/trades that lead to their decisions.

Imo I’d rather have Motte over Lind at this point in time

Well that was ... uneventful lol
So what happens now that we are stuck with Holtby for another year? I thought for sure they were taking him to mentor the other goalies.