Few teams have enjoyed as prosperous an offseason as the Seattle Kraken have through late July. They inked scoring winger Andre Burakovsky to a five-year, $27.5 million deal before finagling a strong two-way presence in Oliver Bjorkstrand for a measly price of two mid-round picks. Perhaps most notably was their success at the draft in snatching up center Shane Wright – long a consensus choice to go first overall – who surprisingly fell all the way to fourth.
In doing so, the Kraken presumably locked up their top two centers for the foreseeable future, with Wright now bolstering the team’s fledgling prospect pool alongside fellow center Matty Beniers, taken second-overall in 2021. Many executives go gray before
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