In addition, Vegas leveraged their abundance of cap space to gain even more draft picks in exchange for taking on bad contracts. That allowed them to acquire Reilly Smith, Shea Theodore, Alex Tuch, and a wealth of picks and prospects in exchange for expansion draft considerations. Going into the expansion draft, Vegas was very proactive in acquiring concessions from teams in exchange for them not taking their players. So why is it that Vegas thrived while Seattle, given the same rules, floundered? A lot of that comes from the two team’s different handlings of the expansion draft. Seattle had the exact same expansion draft rules as Vegas, but they went 27-49-6 in their first season. And yet, it’s hard not to measure the Kraken against the Vegas Golden Knights, who went to posted a 51-24-7 regular season record in their inaugural season and then went all the way to the Stanley Cup Final. After all, they were an expansion team, traditionally those are bad in their first season. In some respects, it feels wrong to imply that something went wrong with Seattle. Today we’re moving on to the Seattle Kraken. We’ve already covered the Montreal Canadiens and Arizona Coyotes. Those are players who either left something to be desired during the 2021-22 campaign, have significant untapped upside, or have some big underlining questions surrounding them going into the offseason.

We’ll also end each article by highlighting some players of particular interest on the squad.

Welcome to What Went Wrong where we’ll look at each team that failed to make the playoffs.

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