LIVIN ON A PRAYER
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Wallstedt to Seattle on paper makes a ton of sense - get your franchise goalie early and start developing him for 3 years down the road - but marketing around a goaltender is not easy. Fleury wouldn't have been able to do it in Pittsburgh without the ilk of Crosby, Letang, and Malkin coming up with him.
I don't think he's the best pick at #4 but Luke Hughes to Seattle in order to market a west coast rivalry with the Canucks as well as afford him all the time he needs to develop is probably the best move the Kraken can make at #4 from an overall standpoint. Power or Edvinsson are probably the best picks there if Beniers+Guenther are the #1 and #2 picks in any order.