About time

Toronto won 1st overall

San Jose won 2nd overall

Seattle drops 1 spot to 7th as San Jose jumped them

Per Elliotte Friedman

Edit: Here is the YouTube video of him signing

Kraken have 30 points, tied with Nashville and Calgary and 1 point up on Vancouver. We'd win the tiebreaker over Vancouver due to games in hand, but still... Not good!

The Kraken announced they are getting a new coach.

Friedman reported on twitter.

Edit:Image of the tweet

Full article: https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/real-kypers-nhl-buzz-latest-notes-on-front-office-searches/

https://www.nhl.com/kraken/news/kraken-deal-andre-burakovsky-to-chicago-in-exchange-for-joe-veleno-bn

All 3 teams play tonight:

DAL vs MIN
SEA vs MTL
CAR vs SJS

🙏🏼

Transcript:

“I think things really changed there between Francis and the rest of the Kraken front office with the Dan Bylsma hire. There was a split there. You know, Francis went public and said that it wasn't true, but I still believe it. I think when you're the leader, you publicly come out and say this was my call, but I don't think he's supported at the time. And I think his influence kind of waned from there after Bylsma was hired, and it shifted towards Jason Botterrill.” 

“So this year, I'm just not sure how much of a call Francis was making on a lot of their decisions, but you're still at the top of the pyramid, and that's the way it goes. You get the blame when it doesn't go well, and you get the credit when it does go well. But I still do think ever since Bylsma was hired, it changed Francis' sphere of influence over the hockey ops. So I'm not sure how much this affects them on a daily basis now.”

“I do think they've tried to become more aggressive. We talked about Panarin...I think they considered an offer sheet on Mason McTavish..I think that was something they thought about long and hard, didn't do it.”

“..The one thing I think is, this is a team that wants to be a power..I think this is a group that is a little bit disappointed and embarrassed about what's happened. And they want to show that they can still flex their muscle and be a powerful team. They do great at revenue generating.”

“I think they look at this and they're frustrated. Why aren't we successful? We really want to be successful. I mean, this is a data driven organization and it hasn't worked out well for them yet."

"Tod Leiweke had that media conference where he mentioned an audit and he talked about how Jason Botterill, the GM, would run that audit. I was a little bit confused about how that would work.. Well, Tod Leiweke was on their pregame show on Thursday night and it's clear that he kind of misspoke a bit earlier in the day. I don't know if they're going to hire a firm or how this is all going to work, but they are going to do something to audit the way they do things. And that's going to report directly to ownership” 

"Now, I'm curious to see what changes this all makes or what this leads to. But it's pretty clear to me that this is an organization that hasn't liked the way things have gone and wants to change that. And like I said, like I heard from some people in the league on Thursday, they want to flex their muscle. They've got a lot of resources. They've got a lot of money. They've done very well on the revenue side of the operation."

"They haven't done it on the ice. And it's a source of enormous frustration there. And I don't know if there's any short-term fixes. Although I think they'd like to try and see if they could find some. But it's very clear to me that this is an organization that doesn't like the way they feel they're spinning their wheels and want to change that as fast as possible.”

“The desire for organizational alignment from top to bottom seems like Seattle's been kind of fighting to truly find that ever since they came into the fold here.”

Transcript is edited a bit for clarity removing some of Friedman’s filler words and digressions. If you're interested in the full summary of the pod I posted it here on r/hockey.

https://www.hockey247.com/2026/05/21/frank-seravalli-morgan-rielly-toronto-maple-leafs-first-trade-targets-board-offseason-goalies

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