Kraken Prospects Shine at 2026 Development Camp as Team Blue Captures Stucky Cup
The Seattle Kraken's 2026 Development Camp has come to an end with Team Blue winning the fourth annual Stucky Cup.
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Seattle now has the seventh overall pick in the draft this year as well.
So Mike, do you think these decisions by Seattle are giving any kinda indication on what direction the Kraken are going in?
Because we've talked about this a lot, is they, they've sort of been, you know, directionless or a- apparently directionless in terms of where they wanna go as a franchise.
Yeah, they've been shooting in all directions.
And, but I think, you know, Jason Botterill has been looking the last few months, you know, going back into the season, to add offense to, to the Kraken, who they've, you know, traditionally had a lot of trouble scoring.
He tried to get Artemi Panarin before he went to Los Angeles.
I think these deals, you know, retaining McMann, who he gave up a second and a fourth round pick for, with Toronto, who scored a bunch of goals for them late in the season and kept them within striking distance of a playoff spot.
And Sam Moskvich, who's a good young player who needed to be moved out to get that pick to go to Florida for Tkachuk.
I think they're gonna be big players in free agency.
They have a lot of cap space.
I know Elliot Friedman mentioned Alex Tuch as a target, if Alex Tuch gets to the market.
He is gonna get to the market.
I can't see any way that he doesn't go to July 1st and field offers at greater than $10 million a season.
But, you know, they have players that they can move out too.
You know, Shane Wright pro- is probably somebody that they move out.
I think they're looking for a center, but there's no centers out there.
So unless they're trading the seventh overall pick and something big for Dylan Larkin, and I don't even know if Larkin would go to Seattle, I think they're gonna have to, you know, rely on maybe getting Alex Tuch from Buffalo and, and hope that, some of their other young players grow up, grow in the next year or two.
