Deep Sea Musings

Created by: KrakenTheCode

Team: 2022-23 Seattle Kraken

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 29, 2023

Published: Jan. 29, 2023

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With the All-Star break soon to be upon us, the Seattle Kraken are firmly in the playoff picture, a massive improvement from their inaugural season. The roster is quite deep and gets contributions from everyone, but with the trade deadline approaching it might be worthwhile to take a look at some ways the team can improve for both the present and future.

The Kraken are a very solid and well put-together group, and I don't really expect any major shakeups. But I think some added defense and goaltending depth would be beneficial as the team pushes for the playoffs. Below are some ideas to add in those areas. I think this is probably more movement than what ends up happening but I wanted to see how these ideas of mine would look in practice.

As always, constructive feedback is appreciated. Cheers and Go Kraken!

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Portillo, Erik		2	$950,000

Trades

SEA

McCabe, Jake

Additional Details:

As of this writing, McCabe has 14 points in 45 games with an average TOI of 19:20 per game and a +2 rating. He is a defensively responsible and versatile blueliner who has continued to put up good numbers this season despite the team around him, and has the added bonus of being under contract for the next couple of seasons at a reasonable rate. I think he would be a great add to help bolster the Kraken defense for both the short and medium term future.

CHI

Donskoi, Joonas
2023 2nd round pick (TOR)
2024 2nd round pick (SEA)

Additional Details:

Chicago is apparently asking for a B-level prospect and a 2nd round pick in exchange for McCabe. Seattle is a new franchise and thus a little shallow when it comes to prospects at the moment, so I included two second round picks as a rough equivalent. If Chicago really wanted a prospect in return one of the picks could be swapped out for an equivalent value prospect.

Donskoi is included just to make the math work with his $3.9M expiring cap hit nearly equal to McCabe's. Unfortunately it has been reported he won't be playing this season due to lingering concussion effects; I'm hoping for the best for his long-term health, regardless of whether his playing career resumes or not.

SEA

Smith, Ty
2023 3rd round pick (NJD)

Additional Details:

Admittedly this is probably the least likely trade idea I came up with to actually come to fruition. I think Seattle will end up just keeping Soucy as an own rental, but if they acquire a surefire defensive upgrade to supplant him it might be worth seeing what value he could return in a trade. Smith is a waiver-exempt young LD who could provide quality defensive depth for Seattle, something they could use more of as a second year franchise.

PIT

Soucy, Carson ($1,375,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Carson Soucy as of this writing has 9 points in 49 games with a +13 rating in 16:15 average TOI. Pittsburgh could use some defensive changes and Soucy is a solid LD who can bolster their blue line and makes any team better whenever he's on the ice, although he will take unnecessary penalties from time to time. In this mock trade Seattle retains half his salary to help make the money work for the Penguins.

SEA

Korpisalo, Joonas

Additional Details:

As of this writing Korpisalo has a .907 Sv% and 3.32 GAA in 22 games started. He would fold into a goalie rotation with Grubauer and Jones and hopefully provide some added depth and consistency. Columbus meanwhile adds another 2023 draft pick.

CBJ

2023 3rd round pick (NJD)

SEA

Portillo, Erik [Reserve List]

Additional Details:

This one is more future oriented, and I can only see it coming to fruition if Seattle is confident they can sign Portillo or can work something out beforehand. But as a newer franchise they are short on goalie prospects, and adding someone like Portillo to the goaltending pipeline for the future may prove to be a wise move.

BUF

2023 4th round pick (COL)

Retained Salary Transactions

Carson Soucy: $1,375,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$76,839,166	$0	$925,000	$5,660,834

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Burakovsky, André $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 5	Beniers, Matthew $897,500$897,500 ($925,000$925K) C RFA - 2	Eberle, Jordan $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Schwartz, Jaden $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW NMC UFA - 4	Wennberg, Alexander $2,250,000$2,250,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	McCann, Jared $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, LW UFA - 5
	Gourde, Yanni $5,166,666$5,166,666 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 3	Bjorkstrand, Oliver $5,400,000$5,400,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Tolvanen, Eeli $1,450,000$1,450,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Geekie, Morgan $1,400,000$1,400,000 C, RW RFA - 1	Sprong, Daniel $750,000$750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Tanev, Brandon $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dunn, Vince $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Larsson, Adam $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 3	Grubauer, Philipp $5,900,000$5,900,000 G NTC UFA - 5
Oleksiak, Jamie $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 4	Schultz, Justin $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Korpisalo, Joonas $1,300,000$1,300,000 G UFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Borgen, William $900,000$900,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Jones, Martin $2,000,000$2,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1	Driedger, Chris $3,500,000$3,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Donato, Ryan $1,200,000$1,200,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1
Fleury, Cale $750,000$750,000 RD RFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Smith, Ty $863,333$863,333 ($0$0$0$0) ($400,000$400K) LD/RD RFA - 1
Portillo, Erik $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0) G RFA - 2

Top Comments

Jan. 29, 2023 at 4:40 p.m.

CantCrackTheKraken

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I Like it

Jan. 29, 2023 at 6:09 p.m.

Garak

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If Donskoi is done for the season, just put him on LTIR. Otherwise, Seattle will probably have to pay to move his contract. It might not take much, but it will still cost something.

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Jan. 29, 2023 at 6:17 p.m.

Hawksguy81

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Hawks probably accept. Taking back Donstoi til the end of the season doesn't really bother me. Good analysis on the trade too

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Jan. 29, 2023 at 7:21 p.m.

Haymaker26

Joined: Jun. 2021

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I don't think the Pens are taking that. We just aquired Smith this offseason, and I'd love to have him getting NHL time. He's more deserving of it than Dumo has been as of late.
The trade essentially translates to John Marino for Carson Soucy @ 50% retention. I was more bullish on Marino than most Pens fans, so take it with a grain of salt, but I don't think I would have done that even before Marino took a massive step forward in New Jersey.

Jan. 29, 2023 at 7:29 p.m.

Garak

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 11,380

Likes: 11,382

Quoting: Hawksguy81

Hawks probably accept. Taking back Donstoi til the end of the season doesn't really bother me. Good analysis on the trade too

Donskoi doesn't REALLY bother me either. My only qualm is that, if he is done for the season, then the excuse of him "needing to be moved for cap purposes" doesn't make sense. And if he isn't even gonna play any games for CHI, why would CHI want to pay the rest of his salary? CHI definitely isn't trying to create an LTIR salary pool for any reason. I guess if CHI sells off enough players they might need the salary to make sure they are over the cap floor for the rest of the season. In that case, they could just put him on regular IR.

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