Seattle Kraken
The whole organization. One connected view.
Western Conference · Pacific DivisionOpen GM workspace2026–27
Current roster2615 F · 9 D · 2 GKnown commitmentsUS$90.9M24 / 25 contracts pricedFarm system#8Strong · board consensusNext gamevs UTAOct 22
Line combinations
Provider projection · 2026-10-12
#19
#10
#11
#74
#9
#7
#84
#27
#51
#59
#89
#26
#29
#6
#41
#62
#28
#46Goaltending
Joey Daccord
#35 · SEA · 30 years- SV%
- GAA
- Games
2025–26 · NHL regular season
Shots on goal faced
1,173 saves136 goals allowed
Source & scope
NHL stats API goalie summary (aggregated across clubs), data/goalie-stats-2025-26.json · 2026-09-21T18:03:37.296Z. Current roster; statistics from the stated season, across clubs. This selection does not identify tonight’s starter. Condensed footage does not establish full video coverage.
Contract horizon
Cap & contractsKnown AAV · 2026–2724 priced deals · 1 AAV unknown
Ceiling · ConfirmedUS$104M
Known committed share87.4%
Ceiling less known AAVUS$13.1M
ForwardsDefenceGoalies
Line: season-specific ceiling. * Outlook or assumption. Balance is not certified cap room.
Cap outlook assumptions
Local to this panel; does not change the GM financial scenario ceiling.
Sources, coverage & amounts
Sum of known AAV, not a complete payroll forecast or available cap room. Relief, bonuses and other charges are excluded. The file may contain later-dated signed terms; its file stamp is not a historical as-of reconstruction.
NHL/NHLPA · 2026–27: $104M · 2026-05-06
NHL/NHLPA · 2027–28: $113.5M · 2025-01-31 · subject to adjustment
Elliotte Friedman / Sportsnet · 2028–29: $127.5M · 2026-09-25 · reported estimate, not confirmed
Beyond that, no published limit in the checked sources. Any chosen growth is a planning assumption, not a forecast. Expiring commitments do not automatically fund a complete future roster.
0 contracts with unresolved terms remain outside the bars.
- F
- 47,730,000 USD
- D
- 29,120,833 USD
- G
- 14,000,000 USD
0 priced signed extensions included this season.
Contract ledger · file stamp 2026-09-21
Prospect pathways
Prospects
Chase ReidD · Soo GreyhoundsNHLETA —
Jake O’BrienC · Brantford BulldogsNHLETA —
Casey MutrynR · U.S. National U18 TeamNHLETA —
Context & more prospects
Farm-board notables; recorded development stage, not an arrival forecast.
Chase Reid: 45 GP · 2025–26 · 48 points
Jake O’Brien: 53 GP · 2025–26 · 93 points
Casey Mutryn: 62 GP · 2025–26 · 46 points
Selection follows the farm board's published notable order. The NHL step is a pathway, not a confirmed move. Arrival dates and current rights are not verified here.
Berkly Catton
Julius Miettinen
All pathways & roster lanes →What changed
All moves- Ty Nelsonrecalled from the minors
Reported event
Results, standings & source context
2026–27 regular season · current roster
Team overview
What the contracts tell us
What the contracts mean for the next moves
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Next game
2026–27
Upcoming games, columns & export
| Date | Opponent | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| vs UTA | Regular season | ||
| vs MIN | Regular season | ||
| vs TOR | Regular season | ||
| at CGY | Regular season | ||
| vs CGY | Regular season |
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Seattle Kraken are in the middle of the pack for attention (59th percentile); attention this week is 2.39× its usual
How much the club is being talked about: the league's stories tagged to the club and to its players, daily pageviews of the club's article against its 90-day baseline, and posts naming the club on the connected networks (Bluesky). Attention, measured; not a claim about what it does to the room.
Social: .
Carrying the noise: Philipp Grubauer (), Brandon Montour (), Bobby McMann ().
Latest from the league: Verhaeghe, Bennett continue Panthers hat trick streak in win against Kraken (2026-10-18) · Panthers fans welcome back Kraken forward Samoskevich with ovation (2026-10-18) · Post-Game Instant Analysis: Seattle at Florida (2026-10-18)
Contract ledger · researched 2026-09-21
Seattle Kraken contracts, 2026–27 onward
Every contract CapOrCup could source, one row per player, one column per season. Certified rows match a club or NHL release. Reported rows come from a named outlet and are labelled. Contracts with no public source are listed separately, and none are estimated.
| Player | 2026–27 | 2027–28 | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | |||
| Matty BeniersCertifiedC | |||
| Chandler StephensonCertifiedC | |||
| Bobby McMannCertifiedC | |||
| Jordan EberleCertifiedR | |||
| Jared McCannCertifiedLM-NTC | |||
| Kaapo KakkoCertifiedR | |||
| Mackie SamoskevichCertifiedR | |||
| Frederick GaudreauCertifiedC | |||
| Jacob MelansonCertifiedR | |||
| Ben MeyersCertifiedC | |||
| Ryan WintertonCertifiedC | |||
| Ryden EversCertifiedL | |||
| Berkly CattonReportedC | |||
| Julius MiettinenCertifiedC | |||
| Shane WrightCertifiedC | |||
| Defence · | |||
| Vince DunnCertifiedD | |||
| Brandon MontourCertifiedD | |||
| Adam LarssonCertifiedD | |||
| Ryan LindgrenCertifiedD | |||
| Ryker EvansCertifiedD | |||
| Alexis BernierCertifiedD | |||
| Josh MahuraCertifiedD | |||
| Cale FleuryCertifiedD | |||
| Goalies · | |||
| Philipp GrubauerCertifiedG | |||
| Joey DaccordCertifiedG | |||
| Sourced total | |||
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Cap or Cup · league-wide signals
Who is earning the cap hit
Each priced SEA skater compared with every priced skater at the same position in the league. Open a signal for the full drill-down on the league board: the tests, the numbers, and what would change it.
Private scenario · 2026–27
Seattle Kraken cap planner
Enter figures you trust. The planner never turns missing contract data into a published total, and saves only in this browser.
Line 1
Beniers · Eberle · McMann
Line 2
Stephenson · Gaudreau · Kakko
Line 3
Samoskevich · Catton · Winterton · McCann
Line 4
Meyers · Melanson
Pair 1
Larsson · Dunn · Montour
Pair 2
Lindgren · Fleury
Pair 3
Evans · Mahura
Projected lineup · as of 2026-10-12
Seattle Kraken as the feed projects it
Sportradar NHL API v7, team depth charts depth chart (licensed feed (30-day trial)): the club's intended lines, pairs, power-play units and goalie order, under Lane Lambert. Measured lines above come from last season's shift charts; this is what the club says it means to do. "Expected starter" is first on the chart, not a confirmed start.
Line 1 · Jared McCann · Matty Beniers · Mackie Samoskevich
Line 2 · Bobby McMann · Chandler Stephenson · Jordan Eberle
Line 3 · Kaapo Kakko · Berkly Catton · Shane Wright
Line 4 · Ben Meyers · Freddy Gaudreau · Ryan Winterton
Pair 1 · Vince Dunn · Adam Larsson
Pair 2 · Ryker Evans · Brandon Montour
Pair 3 · Josh Mahura · Ville Ottavainen
Power play 1 · Kaapo Kakko · Shane Wright · Berkly Catton · Matty Beniers · Brandon Montour
Power play 2 · Jordan Eberle · Bobby McMann · Jared McCann · Chandler Stephenson · Vince Dunn
Goalies · expected starter Joey Daccord · Philipp Grubauer
Official roster
Who is in the organization now
| Player | # | Pos | Age | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forwards · | ||||
| Matty Beniers | 10 | C | ||
| Berkly Catton | 27 | C | ||
| Curtis Douglas | 42 | C | ||
| Jordan Eberle | 7 | R | ||
| Frederick Gaudreau | 89 | C | ||
| Kaapo Kakko | 84 | R | ||
| Jared McCann | 19 | L | ||
| Bobby McMann | 74 | C | ||
| Jacob Melanson | 63 | R | ||
| Ben Meyers | 59 | C | ||
| Jake O'Brien | 44 | C | ||
| Mackie Samoskevich | 11 | R | ||
| Chandler Stephenson | 9 | C | ||
| Ryan Winterton | 26 | C | ||
| Shane Wright | 51 | C | ||
| Defense · | ||||
| Vince Dunn | 29 | D | ||
| Ryker Evans | 41 | D | ||
| Cale Fleury | 8 | D | ||
| Adam Larsson | 6 | D | ||
| Ryan Lindgren | 55 | D | ||
| Josh Mahura | 28 | D | ||
| Brandon Montour | 62 | D | ||
| Ty Nelson | 24 | D | ||
| Ville Ottavainen | 46 | D | ||
| Goalies · | ||||
| Joey Daccord | 35 | G | ||
| Philipp Grubauer | 31 | G | ||
2025–26 production
Last season’s scoring leaders
Club totals with SEA.
| Player | GP | G | A | PTS | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1Range not available Jordan EberleR | |||||
| #2Range not available Matty BeniersC | |||||
| #3Range not available Chandler StephensonC | |||||
| #4Range not available Vince DunnD | |||||
| #5Range not available Jared McCannL | |||||
| #6Range not available Kaapo KakkoR | |||||
| #7Range not available Eeli TolvanenR | |||||
| #8Range not available Brandon MontourD | |||||
| #9Range not available Shane WrightC | |||||
| #10Range not available Jaden SchwartzL |
Shots for
shots a game, expected per shot
Shots against
allowed a game, expected per shot
From the video · model judgement
How they gained the zone in condensed games
Read from the league's free condensed games: entries carried in against dumped in, entries denied at the line for and against, and the rest of what the model could see. A condensed game is a sample of the game, so these are observations from the games read, not season counts.
Games read: SEA at CGY (2026010014), CGY at SEA (2026010038).
Coaching style · 2025-26
rolls four lines
How the bench was run, measured from the shift charts and the play-by-play (a mid-season coaching change is not separated). Each is set against the league median; style words appear only where the club is clearly away from it.
System group
Plays like Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Minnesota Wild, Columbus Blue Jackets, San Jose Sharks
Four groups found by clustering every club's shot profile for and against. The group is described only by the features that set it apart from the league; no label is invented for it.
Goal archive ·
Seattle Kraken: every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Assistant GM
Seattle Kraken: the front-office read
Every idea below is computed from sourced contracts, 2025–26 production, roster lanes, pick ownership and standings. Nothing is a rumour. Prices are computed guides from production and contract surplus, not market quotes.
Direction and front office
Holding
Standing pat: little trade activity.
How this GM trades: . Sunk-cost risk: unknown.
Decisions that cannot wait
Most urgent
Ranked by how soon the decision is forced: offer-sheet dates, cap compliance, deadlines and sell-offs.
Rasmus Sandin (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Club injury listing
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Ryan Shea (EDM)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Gustav Forsling (FLA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Vince Dunn
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Plan for the cap you might get
Cap outlook
Sourced commitments against the announced or projected ceiling, and against a flat cap at today's (the ceiling stayed flat in 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24). Unpriced contracts are not counted, so real room is smaller.
| Season | Committed | Ceiling | Room (projected) | Room (flat cap) | Needs growth | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026–27 | ||||||
| 2027–28 | ||||||
| 2028–29 | ||||||
| 2029–30 |
Long, expensive contracts: Matty Beniers ( through 2030–31: ); Chandler Stephenson ( through 2030–31: ); Brandon Montour ( through 2030–31: ); Bobby McMann ( through 2031–32: ); Joey Daccord ( through 2029–30: ).
Expansion: none announced
Protection slots are worth something
The NHL has not approved or announced an expansion team or expansion draft. In June 2026 it gave the Friedkin family a six-month window to explore a second Texas team in Houston or Austin (about $3.5 billion for the fee and an arena). The Board of Governors met on September 22, 2026 without announcing a decision; any expansion would still need a vote of the Board. No expansion draft is announced. Reported, not official: a Houston or Austin team could be awarded before the end of 2026 and would begin play in 2029-30, which would put its expansion draft in June 2029. The league is also reported to be talking with at least two other groups about a 34th team. Checks here apply the rules to today's rosters and contracts as a planning scenario, not a forecast. The format is not announced either: one new club per draft (a club could face a draft in consecutive years) or two clubs in the same draft (a club could lose two players at once). Under the 2021 rules a club protects 7 forwards, 3 defencemen and 1 goalie (or 8 skaters and 1 goalie). Every no-movement clause in force must be protected and uses a slot, so its real cost is the player it pushes off.
If a draft is announced: ask a no-move player to waive for the draft, trade an exposed player now rather than lose them for nothing, or make a side deal with the expansion club to steer its pick.
Where the roster is thin
Needs
A position (centre, wing, defence pair or goal) counts as a need when most of its regulars are unsigned past this season, or when they produce below the league average for that position.
Left-shot defence
- Established
- Signed for 2027–28
- Lane 5v5 pts/60
See it coming
Offer-sheet exposure
This club's own RFAs for summer 2027: what their production is worth on the open market, which compensation band an aggressive offer would fall in, and whether the club could match with the room it has committed. The 2027–28 ceiling is not set; this uses the current ceiling.
Ryker Evans
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Comparable market salary
- Offer-sheet band
- 2027–28 room (sourced)
Players other clubs might move
Trade targets
Realistic targets, not wish lists: young players stuck behind veterans, salary a cap-strapped club has to move, rentals on selling clubs, and good contracts priced by what they are worth. Young franchise-core players and anyone with a no-move or full no-trade clause are left out.
Rasmus Sandin (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Club injury listing
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Ryan Shea (EDM)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Gustav Forsling (FLA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Cole Hutson (WSH)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Price guide
Shakir Mukhamadullin (EDM)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Donovan Sebrango (FLA)
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- White noise
- Price guide
Charle-Edouard D'Astous (TBL)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Oliver Ekman-Larsson (TOR)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Jonas Brodin (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Mattias Samuelsson (BUF)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Olen Zellweger (BUF)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Uvis Balinskis (FLA)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Restricted free agents, summer 2027
Offer-sheet candidates
RFAs at clubs tight on cap. Compensation depends on the offer's AAV band and must be paid in the offering club's own picks; the Carlsson offer sheet in July 2026 showed how far a club will go to match.
Matias Maccelli (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Calum Ritchie (NYI)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Club injury listing
- Projected slot
- Own 2027 picks held
Gabe Perreault (NYR)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Maxim Shabanov (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Own 2027 picks held
Trades with three or more clubs
Multi-team ideas
Chains where every club receives a player in a need lane, gives up roughly what it gets, and stays under the cap. Salary retention is used at most once per contract (the 2025 MOU bars a second retention on the same contract within 75 regular-season days) and never above 50%.
No three-to-five-club chain involving this club passes every check right now.
Ideas to start from
Trade concepts
Each is priced from the player's tier and the contract's surplus over its remaining term, then cap-checked: salary in against salary out. A shape to test, not a final price.
Concept: Cole Hutson (WSH)
- Contract
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Charle-Edouard D'Astous (TBL)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Oliver Ekman-Larsson (TOR)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Concept: Jonas Brodin (MIN)
- Cap hit
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
- Opportunity
- Net cap change
Sell while the price is high
Sell-high candidates
Players in their prime who produce more than their cap hit suggests, with the deal ending within two seasons: the moment their trade value peaks.
Vince Dunn
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Bobby McMann
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Chandler Stephenson
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Jared McCann
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
- Contract surplus
- Price guide
Players to build around
Young players to build around
Players under 24, judged on NHL games played and five-on-five scoring rate, their prospect ranking, and what they are producing now.
Berkly Catton
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Matty Beniers
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Mackie Samoskevich
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Latest roster move
- Projected slot
- White noise
Ryan Winterton
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Shane Wright
- 2025–26
- Contract
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
Summer 2027
Free-agent targets
Pending UFAs (26 to 32, no extension signed) in this club's need lanes. The current cap hit is shown for reference, not as an estimate of the next contract.
Quinn Hughes (MIN)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Availability
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
- White noise
Charle-Edouard D'Astous (TBL)
- 2025–26
- Cap hit
- Age
- Stage
- Trend
- Role
- 3-season projection
- On-ice chance share
- Sequences started
- Expected goals (2025–26)
- Top speed (EDGE)
- Bursts over 20 mph
- Projected slot
League context
Where the market is going
Price of production at signing: cap hit per point of pace in the season before the deal, from the sourced contract ledger. Samples depend on how many deals are priced.
The ledger holds contracts still active in 2026-27, so one- and two-year deals signed in 2024 are missing from the 2024 column. Segments with different term mixes are therefore not comparable here; the term-matched reading is the pricing study on the integrity page.
Goalies: by raw save percentage, a goalie's season after changing teams is almost unrelated to the one before (correlation across moves, vs for goalies who stayed). Adjusted for shot quality the gap disappears ( stayed vs moved): the system changes the shots a goalie faces, so judge goalies on goals saved above expected. of established-goalie trades returned a first-round pick against for productive skaters ( goalie trades: a small sample).
Largest cap hits signed in summer 2026: Leo Carlsson (), Connor Bedard (), Cutter Gauthier (), Pavel Dorofeyev (), Alex Tuch ().
Ask the Seattle Kraken assistant GM
Answers use only the ideas above, the club's contracts and trades, and the CBA, and cite each one. If the facts do not support an answer, it says so.
GM horizon
Jason Botterill: 1.4 years in
How long GMs have lasted since 1967, and what that implies for a GM who has served this long. A GM who expects to be gone soon has a reason to buy today; this is the base rate, not a read on him.
Win-now premium
Seattle Kraken: what deadline rentals cost
A rental is a pending unrestricted free agent bought between January 1 and the deadline. Its price is the pick value sent, in expected career NHL games. Part of a price can be rational: a win is worth more to a club on the playoff line. This splits the price above the league mean into what the standings on the trade date explain and what they do not.
Win value is the rise in the club's chance of reaching the playoff line from one more win, in percentage points. Units are expected career games of the picks sent; a price in cap-share dollars needs the Worth model on rentals, which is not adopted. Not netted: the rental's quality, salary retained by the seller, and players or prospects sent. A rental's expiry is quoted from the trade's NHL.com story, or from the contract archive where the story is silent (an archive expiry can be a restricted one).
Farm-system consensus · front-office read
This is a deep system with multiple ways to produce NHL value; do not reduce it to one headliner.
- 01Map every realistic graduation before buying a veteran blocker.
- 02Price surplus prospects by role probability, not name recognition.
- 03Protect the premium ceiling; trade from repeated position depth.
Draft picks · 2027–2029
Seattle Kraken picks
Every round for the next three drafts: the club's own picks, picks it has acquired, and picks it has traded away, with any conditions. "Own" means the pick was checked against the club's trades since 2023; "Own, unconfirmed" means no trade is on record but that check has not been done.
Roster moves · as of 2026-10-17
Seattle Kraken roster moves
Waivers, claims, injured-reserve placements, assignments to the minors and signings in the last 45 days, as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). Facts, not inferences: no cause is read into an injured-reserve placement, and what each move does to the cap lives on the cap table.
Ty Nelson
Ryan Lindgren
Mackie Samoskevich
Jacob Melanson
Devin Kaplan
David Goyette
Brody Gillespie
Jake O'Brien
Mackie Samoskevich
Mitchell Stephens
Gustav Olofsson
Ian McKinnon
Rylan Singh
Will Reynolds
Finn Kearns
Nathan Villeneuve
Eduard Sale
Lleyton Roed
Carson Rehkopf
Caden Price
Jani Nyman
Ty Nelson
Julius Miettinen
Andrei Loshko
Tyson Jugnauth
Kaden Hammell
David Goyette
Jagger Firkus
Ryden Evers
Lukas Dragicevic
Alexis Bernier
J.R. Avon
John Hayden
Logan Morrison
Victor Ostman
Injury listings · as of 2026-10-18
Seattle Kraken injury listings
What the club has published (Sportradar NHL API v7, league injuries feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)): status, body area, listed-since and expected-return dates. CapOrCup infers no cause from a listing and keeps its own availability measure, games not dressed, separate.
Waiver wire · last 3 league days
Placed on waivers, league-wide
Every player any club placed on waivers in the last three league days, with what the feed shows next: claimed, cleared to the minors, or nothing yet. A claim costs no assets, only a roster spot and the whole contract, and claiming priority follows the standings.
Jacob Bernard-Docker
Aatu Raty
Alex Barre-Boulet
Fit components (description)
Who fits here: fit: not yet validated
No ranking of who fits Seattle Kraken is shown until the move backtest passes. What follows describes how Seattle Kraken plays and is coached, and the roster rules any addition must clear. The lane-based matchmaker stays on the Assistant GM.
Head coach: , in charge since 2025-10-09 (86 regular-season games on file). Assistants: Not on file.
How this staff has used players (2025-26), against what position and prior minutes predict:
Contracts counted toward the 50 limit: . Active roster for the 23-man limit: Not on file.
as of 2026-04-16
Seattle Kraken
trades
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
- 2026 4th-round pick ()
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
- 2026 5th-round pick ()
- 2026 5th-round pick ()
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
Florida Panthers receive
GM: Bill Zito
- 2026 1st-round pick ()
- 2027 2nd-round pick · conditional · now owned by FLA
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
Toronto Maple Leafs receive
GM: Brad Treliving
- 2026 4th-round pick
- 2027 2nd-round pick · conditional · now owned by FLA
Columbus Blue Jackets receive
GM: Don Waddell
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
- 2027 2nd-round pick · now owned by SEA
- 2026 4th-round pick
Philadelphia Flyers receive
GM: Daniel Briere
- Tucker Robertson
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
- Jon-Randall Avon
Columbus Blue Jackets receive
GM: Don Waddell
- 2025 7th-round pick · No. 198
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
- 7th-round pick · No. 205
- 7th-round pick · No. 218
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
- 2nd-round pick · No. 36
- 3rd-round pick · No. 68
Philadelphia Flyers receive
GM: Daniel Briere
- 2nd-round pick · No. 38
- 2nd-round pick · No. 57
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
Minnesota Wild receive
GM: Bill Guerin
- 2025 4th-round pick
Chicago Blackhawks receive
GM: Kyle Davidson
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
- Joe Veleno
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Jason Botterill
Dallas Stars receive
GM: Jim Nill
- 2026 3rd-round pick
- 2025 4th-round pick
New Jersey Devils receive
GM: Tom Fitzgerald
- Daniel Sprong
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
- 2026 7th-round pick
Winnipeg Jets receive
GM: Kevin Cheveldayoff
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
- 2027 2nd-round pick · now back with WPG
Tampa Bay Lightning receive
GM: Julien BriseBois
- Oliver Bjorkstrand
- Yanni Gourde
- Kyle Aucoin
- 2026 5th-round pick
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
- Michael Eyssimont
- 2025 2nd-round pick
- 2026 1st-round pick · conditional
- 2027 1st-round pick · conditional · now owned by SEA
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
- Will Borgen
- 2025 3rd-round pick
- 2025 6th-round pick
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
- Daniel Sprong
Vancouver Canucks receive
GM: Patrik Allvin
- Future considerations
Anaheim Ducks receive
GM: Pat Verbeek
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
- 2026 4th-round pick
New York Rangers receive
GM: Chris Drury
- Alex Wennberg
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
- 2 × draft pick
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
- Tomas Tatar
Colorado Avalanche receive
GM: Chris MacFarland
- 2024 5th-round pick
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
San Jose Sharks receive
GM: Mike Grier
- 2023 4th-round pick
Washington Capitals receive
GM: Brian MacLellan
- Marcus Johansson
Seattle Kraken receive
GM: Ron Francis
Not stated in the announcement.
Salary retained:
How the ledger is built
- 2024–25 onward: parsed from NHL.com's season trade pages, which list every trade. Each card links to the NHL.com announcement.
- 2019–20 to 2023–24: parsed from NHL.com trade announcements tagged to a club. Some trades are missing; those seasons are marked partial.
- "Details incomplete" means the announcement did not state one side; the original sentence is shown instead of a guess.
- Picks in 2027–2029 show their current owner from the verified pick ledger.
Statistical schedule · 2026-27 · as of 2026-10-18
Seattle Kraken: difficulty rank #4Range not available
Every game priced by the model with the club's rest state. Difficulty averages four league ranks (opponents , rest , travel , back-to-backs ); expected points is the model's own forecast and depends on the club as much as the schedule. League table on the schedule page.
By month: 2026-10: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-11: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2026-12: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-01: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-02: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-03: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back; 2027-04: games, expected points, opponents , back-to-back.
Game by game
games
Price is the model's chance for this club at the morning of the game with rest known; it moves when rosters are published. The spot names what the schedule did to the club that night.