The Seattle Kraken have some pieces they may look to maneuver
The Fourth Period: David Pagnotta on The Latest on what the Seattle Kraken might be seeking to do on the trade deadline.
** NHLRumors.com transcriptions
Kate Pettersen: “Well, one other team that’s been fairly energetic, especially with these rumors, is Seattle. Could Jamie Oleksiak be on the move? We talked about that earlier within the, within the season. What about Oliver Bjorkstrand? What do we predict they’re doing? Are we going to see the form of motion we form of anticipate at this point?”
Pagnotta: “Yes. Seattle, there’s a number of noise across the Kraken immediately, and that isn’t often the case because they prefer to keep an enormous lid on things. But there are such a lot of players that they’re listing on immediately, that more word is starting to actually come out.
And also you mentioned Bjorkstrand. Brandon Tanev, who’s a pending unrestricted free agent. There may be a high expectation that he will likely be traded between now and the March 7 trade deadline. He’s got a $3.5 million cap hit.
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One other player you mentioned, Oleksiak, but one other player that’s also on the market, Jared McCann. And McCann’s got two more years left on his contract. He’s got a 10-team no-trade list, but there may be a number of noise surrounding him. And almost at the identical level of Tanev, that there may be an expectation that he might be moved by the deadline. I say, I don’t know if I am going that far necessarily, but there may be a excellent likelihood, based on chatter across the league and talking to people across the league, that McCann might be on the move. Each him and Tanev possibly the likeliest suspects to go.
Yanni Gourde is battling injury. He’s on a pending, he’s a pending unrestricted free agent as well. He’s on the market. They’ve got a number of, a number of other assets that they’re willing to listen on. Seattle might be a really busy club between now and March seventh.”
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