Seattle Kraken Round Table: First Round Draft Predictions
Ciara Durant
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The Seattle Kraken Wildcards
Dan White
Jordan Dumais from the Halifax Mooseheads won the CHL sportsmanship player of the year. He’s a great player with speed and scored 39 goals and 70 assists for 109 pts in 68 games. And only 6 penalty minutes all year. His size at 5’9” and only 165lbs will have him getting overlooked. The same thing happened to Connor Garland when he played for the Monkton Wildcats. He ended up as a 5th-round pick for Arizona and is now potting 20 goals like it’s nothing.
Dumais had 15 more points than potential first overall pick Shane Wright this year and 19 more than Matthew Savoie in Winnipeg. His 109 points is a new single-season franchise record for the Mooseheads, passing Nathan McKinnon, Jonathan Drouin, Nikolaj Ehlers, and Nico Hischier.
Jonathan West
I’m not a big draft prognosticator, but my pick is Swiss defenseman Lian Bichsel. Not only does he have the length you can’t teach, at 6’6”, and he’s already at 225-pounds as a junior. He was recently promoted to the Swiss Hockey League from his junior team. And he’s a smart kid- speaking four different languages. One of those is Philip Grubauer’s native German tongue, and maybe he can give better defensive communication to the Kraken back line.
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