Another Kraken Trade Compilation

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Created by: KrakenTheCode

Team: 2022-23 Seattle Kraken

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 7, 2022

Published: Aug. 8, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

This is another compilation of proposed trades involving the Kraken that were created by people on CapFriendly. I've included my thoughts on each as well. I didn't include proposed trades I covered in my previous edition, the link to which is pasted below:

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/3532705

Once again, most of these proposed trades I saw don't really make sense for Seattle, whether it was from a value or fit standpoint. I think everyone looked at the Bjorkstrand trade and figured Seattle was open for business when it came to dealing their stockpile of draft picks. The truth is acquiring Bjorkstrand was the result of the Kraken weaponizing their cap space to get a very good player at a steep discount who is in his prime and under contract for multiple years at a fair rate. It does NOT mean they are willing to pay a premium for veteran salaries other capped out teams are desperate to move.

Overall of all the trade proposals created by others that are listed here, only trades 5 and 6 make some sense for Seattle in my opinion. Even in those cases the deals might require some tweaks, and Seattle's willingness to pull the trigger on either would hinge on non-quantifiable factors.

Trades

SEA

Pearson, Tanner

Additional Details:

Pearson's a decent player, but the Kraken have a bunch of veteran winger depth already, especially after re-signing Donato. They have zero reason to help bail the Canucks out of their cap situation by paying a draft pick for a player similar to Donato, especially when the proposed price is not much less than what they paid for Bjorkstrand, who is a far superior player to Pearson.

VAN

2023 3rd round pick (SEA)

SEA

Dillon, Brenden

Additional Details:

The Kraken are well stocked at left defense with Dunn, Oleksiak, and Soucy, not to mention Ryker Evans waiting in the wings. With that in mind, it doesn't make sense for them to trade draft picks they could use to build up their draft pool for a 31 year old defenseman who they could have had in the expansion draft.

WPG

2023 2nd round pick (WPG)
2023 6th round pick (SEA)

SEA

Ruhwedel, Chad

Additional Details:

This sort of deal where a team gives up a draft pick for veteran depth is one a team more ready to seriously contend would make (like Pittsburgh, ironically enough). For Seattle, it makes more sense to keep their draft picks to build up their prospect pool and give Will Borgen a chance as the third pairing right defenseman.

PIT

2023 4th round pick (SEA)

SEA

Zucker, Jason
2023 1st round pick (PIT)
2025 4th round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

The first round pick is enticing, but I doubt the Kraken go for this. Given the costs to shed salary right now, it's likely going to cost quite a bit for Pittsburgh to offload Zucker, even though he only has one year left on his deal (See how Columbus traded Bjorkstrand instead of Nyquist to become compliant). I don't think a late first and fourth is enough to both do that and return McCann, who is locked up through his prime at an affordable rate and is coming off a breakout season. Not to mention Seattle just extended him, so clearly they view him as a key piece to their core moving forward.

PIT

McCann, Jared

SEA

McGinn, Brock
2023 2nd round pick (PIT)
2024 4th round pick (PIT)

Additional Details:

This is more along the lines of what Seattle would do at this point in time; take on other teams' salary to gain additional draft capital. It is worth noting that Tanev was having a very good season prior to his injury, and the Kraken seem to value him as a leader. So that has to be taken into consideration. Beyond that, whether Seattle takes this sort of deal or not depends on if the draft picks are enough value to make it worth both downgrading from Tanev to McGinn and retaining half of Tanev's salary for three years.

PIT

Tanev, Brandon ($1,750,000 retained)

SEA

Kerfoot, Alexander

Additional Details:

Of all the trades I've seen sending Kerfoot and/or Holl to Seattle, this is probably the most realistic. Most involve Seattle giving up 2nd or 3rd round picks, which I don't think they'll go for given where they are at as a franchise. However, I could see this sort of deal framework happening IF the Kraken want to prioritize an immediate boost to their forward group over giving someone like Geekie development time and they think they can extend Kerfoot.

TOR

Geekie, Morgan

Retained Salary Transactions

Brandon Tanev: $1,750,000 (50%)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$83,839,166	$0	$925,000	-$1,339,166

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	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
Pearson, Tanner $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Wennberg, Alexander $2,250,000$2,250,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Donskoi, Joonas $3,900,000$3,900,000 RW UFA - 1
Donato, Ryan $1,200,000$1,200,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 1	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Zucker, Jason $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Oleksiak, Jamie $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 4	Larsson, Adam $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 3	Grubauer, Philipp $5,900,000$5,900,000 G NTC UFA - 5
Dunn, Vince $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Schultz, Justin $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2
	Soucy, Carson $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Jones, Martin $2,000,000$2,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Dillon, Brenden $3,900,000$3,900,000 LD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
McGinn, Brock $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 3		Driedger, Chris $3,500,000$3,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 2
Kuhlman, Karson $825,000$825,000 RW UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Wright, Shane $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0) C RFA - 4
Lind, Kole $850,000$850,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW UFA - 1
Borgen, William $900,000$900,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD UFA - 1

Aug. 8, 2022 at 1:42 p.m.

Canesfan21_

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I think we can all agree Seattle is mostly a placeholder for “any team”

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Aug. 8, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.

Ddug

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Quoting: Canesfan21_

I think we can all agree Seattle is mostly a placeholder for “any team”

Probably but this is an interesting breakdown of these proposed deals. Nice to have the logic behind why someone thinks a trade wouldn't work vs the standard "that's dumb, instantly rejected" type response

Aug. 8, 2022 at 2:00 p.m.

KrakenTheCode

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Quoting: Canesfan21_

I think we can all agree Seattle is mostly a placeholder for “any team”

There were definitely some of those, but I didn’t include any in this post. For each of the trades above there were at least a couple of examples where people were directing them towards Seattle specifically.

Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:06 p.m.

Elias_Sedin

The Canucks Suck

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Canucks accept

Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:06 p.m.

Elias_Sedin

The Canucks Suck

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Quoting: KrakenTheCode

Would you do Pearson for Soucy

Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:15 p.m.

Imagine875948

Pens are the best

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Pens accept the 1st and 3rd trades

Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:40 p.m.

Haymaker26

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I'm at the point where I don't understand the Penguin deals from our perspective either. The Hextall management protected Kappy and Carter over McCann. They resigned McGinn as a Tanev lite. They just extended Ruhwedel, and are happy with having this many NHL caliber defensemen. We can discuss the effectiveness of these moves all we want, but I doubt they'll want to go back on these moves so soon. Besides, I think it's worth noting 1) that with how stacked next year's draft is expected to be, I'd be very hesitant to give up a 2023 first for 1 more year of Zucker, and 2) McGinn was a lot better in the first half of the season than the 2nd, and missed a good portion of March and April.

Aug. 8, 2022 at 5:41 p.m.

KrakenTheCode

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Quoting: SamTheGoalie36

Would you do Pearson for Soucy

Probably not. The Kraken have a surplus of forwards that are either younger than Pearson and need playing time to develop or are just better. There's not really room for him. Plus, the Kraken seem to really like Soucy and turned down trade offers for him last year, so I get the impression they might end up extending him.

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