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Looks like Francis is doing some PR damage control sharing this information now that many vacancies around the league are open, directly blaming ownership for the coaching hire and all.
The deals are not all surprising, I think Friedman has been saying since the 2025 Draft they’ve tried to acquire Kyrou, I wonder how many times they’ll revisit that one. And Haula was someone Preds fans expected and wanted traded so that one is surprising it didn’t go through.
ICYMI this was [Friedman’s report](https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleKraken/comments/1shoh9k/32t_12120_friedman_says_there_was_a_split_between/) a few days ago on his podcast.
Was the Bylsma hiring really a disaster? Obviously in the W-L sense it was worse than the previous or following seasons. But when I dug a bit deeper a lot of what I saw made it seem like that was mostly luck.
Well, take it all with a grain of salt, but the implication here is the Stephenson deal is not necessarily a RF deal. And the part here about how they’re trying to splash in free agency is concerning… this team is more of a « blow it all up » kinda project. I don’t see how this years free agency can really move the needle just based on whats available.
As aggressive as the trade deadline? Buddy they only made 1 move!!
Something WILDLY unexpected would need to happen in Free Agency/offseason trades land for that to be a reasonable route for the Kraken. There just aren’t a lot of franchise changing players coming available and the ones that do aren’t really looking to come to a middling team. I’d love to be surprised, but I’m not optimistic.
>Seattle did receive permission from the New York Rangers to offer Panarin a contract extension that included a higher AAV than Leon Draisaitl’s $14 million, but Panarin also had no interest in going there.
If this is true and it’s also true that Botteril made the Bylsma decision then I have no faith in the guy. That’s fucking insane.
Erik Haula might be the most Kraken-coded player to have never played for the Kraken. He’s the quintessential bottom six guy.
It’s so telling that whoever leaked this thought that “we really tried to get this one perfectly fine player who got more than 40 points twice, but it fell through” was instructive of anything other than they thought a bottom six guy at the end of his career was worth trading assets for.
Some takeaways:
Ron’s team is working hard to absolve him and get him another gig. Pretty nasty work throwing his guy Botterill under the bus. If there was this much misalignment between management, it was time for him to go.
The coaching retro is pointless. This collective of players stinks. They’ve stunk under three different coaches. Ron assembled the majority of the roster. There’s basically no coach that was dragging this team above 90 points again.
The Kraken are not a destination franchise in the NHL yet. Ownership is clearly trying hard to put the team on the map and change the narrative amongst the players. This means they’re going to do something insane with a contract to convince someonr to come here. Paying a 36 year old Panarin 15m AAV fits that bill. They’re only going to get more desperate the more they strike out.
Lastly…It’s a season of change for the Kraken. I think Samantha and Tod are figuring out a new direction for how to run the team. This summer should be very interesting.
Kraken rapidly becoming a lolcow org
None of this is making me confident at all that removing Ron Francis will do anything. But at least we don’t have the guy who suggested signing the coach that protected Brad Aldrich.
I would be fine with the team being middle or the road to absolute garbage over that.
I would take the comments with a grain of salt as they aim to absolve RF, but man, if any of it is true, it paints a terrible picture for the future of the franchise with completely incompetent ownership. I hope that take is wrong.
All this is just a result of bad ownership. There have been so many dumb moves since this team’s inception that the team itself has a reputation that it can’t be trusted to earnestly improve. That’s why it’s a challenge to hire talent here. Changes have to happen from the top down, including firing Botterill.
This screams internal fans of RF in the office to attempt to save face for Ron. Man still needs a job elsewhere.
On Reddit and feeling bad reading all this? Just remember you could be sitting on Reddit and feeling bad reading all this while the team had also dumped a 2nd and 3rd for Erik Haula
I wonder who is the first star to waive a no move clause to come to Seattle. A lottery win will help that come sooner! May 5 is gonna come so quick!
Ok so who picked Lambert? Was it GMJB as well? If so then GMJB needs to go. You have to coaches in a row with the same issues over and over again. Leiweke doesn’t need an independent audit (led by GMJB so not independent) to see that the front office is a dumpster fire. Time to tear it down to the studs with the front office and start fresh.
so I’m wondering why would Botterilli chose Bylsma. At this point I’m still declaring Hakstol the best coach in Kraken history. sorry Lane
Daccord and Grubauer spent most of the season saving the team from bad play. Their offense had little coordination and the defense made alot of the same mistakes all season long with no real improvement.
this is why when Francis stepped down, i was hoping for entire FO shake up… please ownership, Botterill isn’t gonna be good either
It is wild to me that we don’t have anyone more connected in local media to give us a real readout on what actually is happening in this org after 5 years.
What is above basically reads as everything good that has happened in the last 5 years was because of Ron Francis and everything bad was ownership and Jason Botterill which is wild. It is wild because Ron Francis hand picked all of the FO and was completely in control of setting the hockey ops path and every aspect related to the hockey team from inception: it all rolled thru him based on what Tod and others have said until this last year.
We’re five years old and already nobody likes us.
Rad. No one wants to play here because the team is going nowhere, there’s no plan, and everyone knows it.
Just where you want to be five years in: terrible on the ice AND publicly dysfunctional.