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New fan's first trade deadline
Mar. 6th, 2026 02:40 pmNo big moves for the Kraken. Divisional rivals making moves will impact us a bit.
We now have a McMann in addition to our McCann, and Ryden Evers in addition to our Ryker Evans? Front office, what did our announcers do to deserve this? I mean, outside of all the things they have done. KHN is a bit chaotic.
To think when the season started I was excited over the idea of a Nikke Kokko call up so we'd have a Nikke Kokko and a Kaapo Kakko in the same game. Still hasn't happened! Kokko is a strong goalie prospect so he will get some NHL ice time coming up, but calling up a goalie is very different from calling up a skater.
Also, people telling us to not worry over who McMann might be edging out, he's a bottom sixer... probably on our fourth line... Dear god, y'all do not understand how Kraken fans feel about our fourth line.
* Our fourth liners are mostly our own, home grown draft picks developed on our own farm. We are a baby team. We don't have many developed in house yet.
* Our team's very streaky runs this year map *very* tightly to whether our fourth line is in order or we've lost key members to injury or roster moves.
* Our fourth line has Melanson. The team, our broadcast team, and the fandom... which of these three groups is actually more into Melly? Eddie Olczyk, former player NHL player and also former Pens coach, is on our broadcast team and he's yelled that we should field him every game more than I have
I get that this is baffling to fans of... pretty much every team. Rangers just found out how we feel about our home grown fourth liners when they grabbed Kartye on waivers, our undrafted sometimes-call-up.
Also, if he clicks with us, it sounds like he'd be more of a middle sixer? We also haven't announced re-signings of most of our pending UFAs and RFAs. McMann is also a pending UFA, but if someone doesn't re-sign we could look at him as a replacement. We've got the cap space for where he's expected to sign in free agency. Kraken's big announcement today was posting the re-signing of our team captain for two more years, full NTC, which means he's probably retiring here. That and most of who is staying and not is likely already set, just not announced/recorded yet.
We now have a McMann in addition to our McCann, and Ryden Evers in addition to our Ryker Evans? Front office, what did our announcers do to deserve this? I mean, outside of all the things they have done. KHN is a bit chaotic.
To think when the season started I was excited over the idea of a Nikke Kokko call up so we'd have a Nikke Kokko and a Kaapo Kakko in the same game. Still hasn't happened! Kokko is a strong goalie prospect so he will get some NHL ice time coming up, but calling up a goalie is very different from calling up a skater.
Also, people telling us to not worry over who McMann might be edging out, he's a bottom sixer... probably on our fourth line... Dear god, y'all do not understand how Kraken fans feel about our fourth line.
* Our fourth liners are mostly our own, home grown draft picks developed on our own farm. We are a baby team. We don't have many developed in house yet.
* Our team's very streaky runs this year map *very* tightly to whether our fourth line is in order or we've lost key members to injury or roster moves.
* Our fourth line has Melanson. The team, our broadcast team, and the fandom... which of these three groups is actually more into Melly? Eddie Olczyk, former player NHL player and also former Pens coach, is on our broadcast team and he's yelled that we should field him every game more than I have
I get that this is baffling to fans of... pretty much every team. Rangers just found out how we feel about our home grown fourth liners when they grabbed Kartye on waivers, our undrafted sometimes-call-up.
Also, if he clicks with us, it sounds like he'd be more of a middle sixer? We also haven't announced re-signings of most of our pending UFAs and RFAs. McMann is also a pending UFA, but if someone doesn't re-sign we could look at him as a replacement. We've got the cap space for where he's expected to sign in free agency. Kraken's big announcement today was posting the re-signing of our team captain for two more years, full NTC, which means he's probably retiring here. That and most of who is staying and not is likely already set, just not announced/recorded yet.
