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Will never forgive what he did to McCann

https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/playoffs/cale-makar-out-for-avalanche-game-1-injury-update-may-20-2026

In back-to-back stories this week, Seattle Kraken optimists and pessimists both get a reason to reinforce their opinion. A cadre of maturing youngsters is the good news.

And against my will….

From this, I say try to resign McMann, Tolvanen and Melanson.

I think Dunn at 9AAV is high… I would be shocked if McCann stayed but at 7.67AAV…

Wright, I’m not sure what to even consider with him tbh.

Both of our affiliate teams making moves this year! The Kansas City Mavericks (Seattle Kraken ECHL affiliate) swept the Allen Americans and for the second year in a row became the Mountain Division champs! They now move onto the Western Conference finals, and hopefully the Kelly Cup finals after!

At the end of the 2025-2026 Kraken season there was a lot of swapping and borrowing between Kraken, Firebirds, and Mavericks some of the ECHL players got some AHL time - it's great to see it all come together for our lower leagues.

Amazing to see how high the Wild rank all time in winning % and also how low some iconic franchises rank (Hawks, Kings, Rangers, Leafs for instance).

This being said it’s hard to completely chalk this up to bad luck. The Wild rarely if never have had a Stanley cup caliber team. The team hovers between mediocre to slightly above average every year without bottoming out like some of these franchises.

And it makes you wonder if the team just wants to be relevant every year for ticket sales and owner ego or if it isn’t capable of building an elite team in playoffs. It’s not hard to see some bad teams like the Sharks building their pieces now to make a run down the road.

One last thing but newer expansion teams may benefit from how OT losses are handled so that may be boosting the Wild a tad. But point remains, always relevant, never bad. Also rarely great either.

Edit: by winning %, the data is points %.

So here's an interesting divergence of philosophies. The Seattle Kraken downsize from one Hall of Fame President of Hockey Operations (Ron Francis) to none. The Vancouver Canucks go from one to two Hall of Fame Co-Presidents (the Sedins). We'll see which structure works better, or if either one does.

Probably being overly hopeful but this feels like a good sign for Bobby staying in Seattle??

His girlfriend also posted about living in Seattle yesterday, so either they’re saying “bye” to Seattle or they’re loving it here and wanna stay in the PNW!

What a game!