Author: Mark Henry

Shane Wright Injury Update

Seattle Kraken prospect Shane Wright can’t seem to stay out of the hockey news headlines this season. This time it’s injury related. Wright sustained a lower-body injury. As Dave Jewell of The Hockey Writers first reported on Thursday, although vague, it’s attention-catching based on who the player is. Since sliding to the fourth pick in […]

Winnipeg Jets prospect Chaz Lucius is producing in the WHL

Winnipeg Jets’ first-round pick in 2021, 18th overall Chaz Lucius, opted to leave college and turn pro signing an entry-level contract in April 2022 as an 18-year-old. Lucius was expected to head back to the University of Minnesota for the 2022-23 season. Instead, foregoing three years of college eligibility, there was no guarantee where he […]

Winnipeg Jets Should Make Luke Schenn a Priority Trade Target

When a team has no glaring weaknesses and sits in second place in the Central Division past the mid-way point of the NHL regular season, finding trade targets who will fit in and not ruin team chemistry sometimes isn’t as simple as one may think. With a 31-16-1 record through 48 games, the Winnipeg Jets […]

Is Wright the Price for Horvat?

The NHL trade deadline is six weeks away, and the now first-place Pacific Division Seattle Kraken looks like a legitimate Stanley Cup contender. It might be time to go all in year two of the franchises’ existence. Seattle is proving their off-season acquisitions to the forward group, specifically on the wings, to help bolster their […]

Hellebuyck Voted 2023 All-Star

Fan votes are in, and Winnipeg Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck is headed to Sunrise, Florida, for the 2023 NHL All-Star game on February 3-4, 2023, hosted by the Florida Panthers at FLA Live Arena. Hellebuyck, a fifth-round pick in 2012, 130th overall, won’t have anyone questioning the fans’ vote on his selection. Putting up similar, […]

Ro Exotic (Robin Lehner) Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

It wasn’t the regular update on a player on the LTIR we expect to hear at some point during the season. It wasn’t injury related at all. Injured Vegas Golden Knights goalie Robin Lehner revealed he and his wife Donya filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with liabilities between $10 million and $50 million in late […]

Mark Stone Out Week-to-Week

Vegas Golden Knights forward Mark Stone left Thursday’s game versus the Florida Panthers in the first period with an undisclosed upper-body injury. On Friday, Vegas head coach Bruce Cassidy revealed he was considered week-to-week. The 30-year-old Golden Knights captain missed a large part of the 2021/22 NHL season with a back injury playing only 37 […]

Wright Move or Wrong Move? Seattle Kraken Re-Assign Shane Wright to Kingston

The day after Team Canada captain Shane Wright won gold at the 2023 World Junior Championship, the Seattle Kraken announced they have sent their 2022 first-round pick to the OHL for the remainder of the season. Seattle re-assigned Wright to the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League, where he is expected to be traded […]

Seattle Kraken Rookie Matty Beniers Named 2023 All-Star

January 6, 2023 – With the 2023 NHL All-Star game and NHL All-Star Skills competition to be held at FLA Live Arena, home of the Florida Panthers, in Sunrise, Florida, on February 3 & 4, 2023. The NHL department of hockey operations released its initial selections on Thursday night. Kraken forward Matty Beniers was named […]