Snip-snip here, snip-snip there.
The Seattle Kraken front office has a lot of decisions to make as the team heads toward its first NHL regular season game Oct. 12 at the Vegas Golden Knights. But a lot of roster moves have been made recently.
Since starting with an original training camp roster of 44, 16 players have been released and one added, making the count 29 players as of Monday.
One of the 29 is Yanni Gourde, who is on injured reserve and protected, so the Kraken must cut six players to get to the 23-man roster limit.
Here’s a list of who’s left at this stage, with number of NHL seasons played and previous NHL team in parentheses:
Defenseman Mark Giordano has more NHL experience than anyone else on the Seattle Kraken roster. (Image credit: KrakenChronicle.com).
SEATTLE KRAKEN ROSTER AS OF OCT. 4
Forwards (17)
>> No. 22 Mason Appleton (3, Winnipeg Jets)
>> No. 14 Nathan Bastian (2, New Jersey Devils)
>> No. 43 Colin Blackwell (3, Nashville Predators)
>> No. 9 Ryan Donato (3, San Jose Sharks)
>> No. 72 Joonas Donskoi (6, Colorado Avalanche)
>> No. 7 Jordan Eberle (11, New York Islanders)
>> No. 67 Morgan Geekie (2, Carolina Panthers)
>> No. 37 Yanni Gourde (6, Tampa Bay Lightning)
>> No. 19 Calle Jarnkrok (8, Nashville Predators)
>> No. 90 Marcus Johansson (11, Minnesota Wild)
>> No. 73 Kole Lind (1, Vancouver Canucks)
>> No. 6 Jared McCann (6, Pittsburgh Penguins)
>> No. 17 Jaden Schwartz (10, Saint Louis Blues)
>> No. 15 Riley Sheahan (10, Buffalo Sabres)
>> No. 13 Brandon Tanev (6, Pittsburgh Penguins)
>> No. 21 Alex Wennberg (7, Florida Panthers)
>> *No. 28 Max McCormick (5, Carolina Panthers)
Defensemen (9)
>> No. 3 Will Borgen (2, Buffalo Sabres)
>> No. 27 Dennis Cholowski (3, Detroit Red Wings)
>> No. 29 Vince Dunn (4, St. Louis Blues)
>> No. 4 Haydn Fleury (4, Anaheim Ducks)
>> No. 5 Mark Giordano (15, Calgary Flames)
>> No. 6 Adam Larsson (10, Edmonton Oilers)
>> No. 55 Jeremy Lauzon (3, Boston Bruins)
>> No. 24 Jamie Oleksiak (9, Dallas Stars)
>> No. 28 Carson Soucy (3, Minnesota Wild)
Goalies (3)
>> No. 35 Joey Daccord (2, Ottawa Senators)
>> No. 60 Chris Driedger (5, Ottawa Senators)
>> No. 31 Philipp Grubauer (9, Colorado Avalanche)
*-Acquired after original training camp roster was set.
SEATTLE KRAKEN CUTS AS OF OCT. 4
WAIVERS:
Forwards (3)
>> No. 61 Luke Henman (0)
>> No. 11 Alexander True (2, San Jose Sharks)
>> No. 18 Carsen Twarynski (2, Philadelphia Flyers)
Defensemen (3)
>> No. 58 Connor Carrick (7, New Jersey Devils)
>> No. 8 Cale Fleury (1, Montreal Canadiens)
>> No. 23 Gustav Olovsson (4, Montreal Canadiens)
Goalies (1)
>> No. 30 Antoine Bibeau (2, Colorado Avalanche)
RELEASED:
Forwards (7)
>> No. 48 Brent Gates Jr. (0)
>> No. 52 Tye Kartye (o)
>> No. 38 Ryan Lohin (0)
>> No. 47 Cole MacKay (0)
>> No 63 Jacob Melanson (0)
>> No. 20 Scott Wilson (4, Buffalo Sabres)
>> No. 26 Ryan Winterton (0)
Defensemen (1)
>> Ryker Evans (0)
Goalies (1)
>> No. 1 Francis Marotte (0)
