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[olivermoss]

* Kraken just called up another player from their AHL team. The problem, uh, they are in Finland. The team, not the player. They are off doing the global series games. They are emergency yoinking someone all the way to Finland and we don't know why. That feels worrying.

They just landed a few hours ago. Kraken, you were supposed to pack everything you needed! You even brought an extra non-rostered player already.

Also, Firebirds are on a roadie. Did they yoink this kid from a game in Arizona without being able to pack?

* There have been Shane Wright trade rumors for so long, it's really nice to have it done. No shade to him, both sides moving on is good. But the deal is interesting because we both traded players who are not playing as well as people thought they would in the NHL, who could absolutely pop off later in their careers, leaving the team who traded them to look silly. Both players are risky trades for both sides, but there is also a few difference: the player the Kraken got is exempt from waivers for at least the rest of the season.

Two problems the Kraken have are roster construction and a logjam of strong prospects who need NHL ice time. This doesn't solve the problems, but I could write a bit about it really helps and gives our overstuffed roster some breathing room. We have options with him, with him roster slot. We have a wide variety of good outcomes to this trade. (Nashville has only one, they have to roster Wright)

* One sad thing about all these roster moves and sudden flexibility is that OFM is on LITR. His AHL playoffs scoring streak last year was called 'hilariously unsustainable'. We have a lot of franchise depth in case of injured players, but right now some of that depth is also injured. The Danish pretty boy really should be on the team this year, and the plan probably was for Meyers to go down and him to come up after the first few games. Ironically, we knew some of our early division match ups were going to be chippy, hence having Meyers and Douglas in instead of him, but then he gets injured down in the AHL.

Comments

[falena]

Kraken, you were supposed to pack everything you needed!

This made me lol!

[mistressofmuses]

That sort of emergency international call-up does seem a little concerning... :/

(Though "you were supposed to pack everything you needed!" did make me laugh, haha.)

[olivermoss]

They did a whole video on making sure they had enough of everything, power converters for the skate sharpeners, etc. But they forgot to pack enough squids and now one's got to fly commercial with stop overs.

[rekishi]

My head somehow says the global series should be in December, but maybe that's the second leg.

[olivermoss]

The boys are overseas, so hopefully it's the right month. The only other one I know about is Germany, but I think that's next season.

[rekishi]

Next year, Oilers and Sens are playing in Germany, this year Sens and Hawks are in Germany. Dec 18 and 20. I was supposed to meet somebody who wanted to go one of the games, but they can't make it sadly.

[olivermoss]

Oh cool, are you still able to go to the game over there?

[rekishi]

No unfortunately not this year. They opened ticket sales a day earlier than announced and by the time I learned that the only tickets left were 300 Euros or more and...no. When my friend resold theors, I didn't have anyone to go with spontaneously... and they were in the Blackhawks side. Upper bowl but still.

Maybe next year!