Seattle Kraken Inaugural Roster: Where Are They Now? 🦑

Seattle Kraken Inaugural Roster: Where Are They Now? 🦑

Where are they now? The Seattle Kraken inaugural roster. Well, I’ll tell you. You are locked on Kraken, your daily podcast on the Seattle Kraken, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Hello Seattle hockey fans. Welcome to another episode of Locked on Kraken, part of the Locked On podcast network. We bring you your favorite team, the Seattle Kraken every single day. That’s right, we are back in season. Erica Layala here, your host of Locked on Kraken. Been with you since the very beginning, the expansion draft, which we talked about the inaugural season, which we’ll talk about a little bit this week. And of course, leading up to season 5, I will be wheels down in Seattle on Saturday. Cannot wait to be with you. also an accredited media member for Milano Cortina the Winter Olympics where we know Philip Grubau will be. We’ve got uh you know Oscar Mulgard likely gonna play for Denmark. We’ve got Oliver Borkstrand, Pierre Edward Belmar and maybe some more players with some Kraken ties. Want to let you know today’s episode of Locked on Kraken brought to you by our friends at FanDuel. You can go download the FanDuel app by heading to fanduel.com. And if you place and win your first $5 bet, you can get $300 back in bonus bets. On today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the inaugural team, what we saw from the team, how things went for the inaugural roster, and then we’ll break down the players with 10 or fewer games, NHL games played in the inaugural season. And yes, I will answer where are they now? Then we will also talk about the common threads jerseys. And of course a reminder I will remind you later on in the show throughout the show that tomorrow um on Thursday we will have the alternate jerseys. The third jerseys for the Seattle Kraken go on public sales. Some of you season ticket holders probably already got yours, but if you don’t, 9:00 a.m. Pacific time. Make sure you refresh that website to get your menacing glow-in-the-dark jerseys. All right, let’s get cracking, if you will, with the Seattle Kraken inaugural roster, which included some players that we’ve already talked about in our Where Are They Now series because they were taken in the expansion draft. But there were some names that we didn’t mention on that where are they now. As a reminder, let me go over the expansion draft list. included players like Carson Truinsky, Tyler Pitlick, John Quinnville, Curtis McDerman, uh, Vanichek, we talked about VTEC Vanichek, Dennis Chilowski, we’ll talk a little bit about Alexander True, Nathan Bastion, Cole Lind, Kale Flurry, Chris Driger, Hayden Flurry, Colin Blackwell, uh, Cali Yarn Croak, Mason Appleton, Jeremy Lison, Mark Girardano, Yuna Stonescoy, Joy Dord, Morgan, Geeky, Carson Susi, Will Borggan, Brandon Tanv, maybe uh persona nonrada at CPA these days, Yanni Gourd, Vince Dunn, Jordan Eberly, Jamie Alexiaak, Jared McCann, and Adam Larson. But there were some other players that were a part of that inaugural roster who were not taken in the expansion draft. We’re going to talk about the entire expansion or excuse me the entire inaugural roster. So I will not differentiate on this list whether they were taken or excuse me I will tell you if they were taken in the expansion draft free agency etc. But I won’t differentiate. So we’re going to talk about everyone on the inaugural roster. So, some we’ll talk about again, but the list of players on the inaugural roster include Mason Appleton, Alex Baret, Boule, Nathan Bastion, Maddie Beneers, Colin Blackwell, Austin Zarnick, Ryan Donado, Mr. So piss and vinegar himself, Ununice Donscoy, Jordan Everly Morgan, Geeky, Yanni Gourd, Kelly Yarn, Croak, Marcus Johannes, Carson Coleman. That was a throwback when I saw that one. Coen, Jared McCann, Max McCormick, Victor Rossk, Jaden Schwarz, Riley Shien, Daniel Sprung. Yeah, Daniel Sprung, Brandon Tannib, Alexander True, Alexander Wenberg. Haven’t talked about him yet. Will Borggan, Dennis Chilowski, Vince Dunn, Kale Flurry, Hayden Flurry, Mark Gerardano, Adam Larson, Jeremy Lazison, Jamie Alexiaak, Derek Pulat, Carson Susi, Joey Dord, Chris Driger, and Philip Grubower. So that’s the full list. The Seattle Kraken um played in the 2021 2022 season. That was their first season. Uh they played on the road for their first few games because Climate Pledge Arena wasn’t quite ready yet. Um you know there was a lot going on. A lot of guys had COVID scares. Some actually got COVID and didn’t play for the first few games. There was a lot going on. So the Seattle Kraken in 2021-22 82 game season. 27 wins, 49 losses, six overtimes, goals for 213 goals against 284. They got 60 points, their second or excuse me, their lowest ever. Uh then they had 16 and 22 record at home. Uh fewest wins at home. Um but not by a lot. We’ll talk about that as we can continue going. Three overtime games at home, an 11 and 27 record on the road. They finished 30th overall in the National Hockey League. That’s their worst finish in franchise history was in their all girls season. They finished 15th in the Western Conference. They finished eighth in the Pacific Division. and it was the first of three seasons that they did not qualify for the postseason. So, um that’s that’s that’s Kraken hockey, baby, right? Uh that’s what we saw from that inaugural season. Um that was of course under Dave Haxel. He was our head coach. We are now going on to our third head coach in Lane Lambert. So, there you go. But, um, you know, this was an exciting season in that it was the first ever season for the Seattle Kraken. It was a difficult season in that we didn’t have a winning record. Our worst season on the books. It was also difficult because we offloaded our captain, our first ever captain, Mark Gerardano, did not even complete the entire inaugural season with us. A lot of people’s thinking maybe uh I don’t know if it’ll be our captain, although Everly I think is definitely on the table when it comes to trades, but the Kraken are likely going to be movers and shakers when it comes to moving players and maybe that’s how we’ll get some of our young blood. Um I know we’ve been talking about the youths, um vets versus new threats. We have some great comments here. I knew y’all weren’t going to like the athletic ranking Shane over Maddie. We’ll talk about that. Um, but you know, one of the things that a lot of people want to see is that this Seattle Kraken team has to get serious about making some moves and this seems like the perfect season for the Kraken to do that. But, you know, we have to see how it all pans out. So, the Seattle Kraken, um, when it came to the inaugural season, our leading goal scorer, I’m pretty sure you know who that was. It was Jared McCann. He played 74 games for us in the inaugural season. Had 27 goals, 23 assists for 50 points. Next highest was uh, pointswise was Yanni Gourd, who had 48 points. His breakdown was 21 goals, 27 assists. Jordan Everly had the third most points and the only player uh to be at 40 or more points. The only the only other player I should say alongside Mac and Gourd to be at 40 or better points. He had 44 points, Jordan Eperly, our current captain. And that breakdown was also 21 goals just like Yanni Gourd and 23 assists. the highest scoring defender, as you can probably figure, was defenseman Vince Dunn. Seven goals but 28 assists overall. And Alex Wenberg was our fourth highest scorer, 37 points, 11 goals, 26 assists. um you know the Seattle Kraken uh we’re not particularly good when we look at the uh the goal the the when we look at goalending Philip Grubower played uh in 55 games and had an 18 and 31 yikes record a 3.16 goals against average and 889 save percentage Chris Driger got injured. Um, only played 27 games, started 24 of them, a 9 and4 record, a 296 goals against average, an 899 save percentage. We did see Joey Dort for five games, four starts overall, no wins, all losses, a 430 goals against average, and an 850 save percentage. Yeah, it definitely wasn’t the Martin Jones year. But coming up next, let’s talk about players who did suit up for the Seattle Kraken in the inaugural season, but only had 10 or fewer games played. And we’ll talk about what their circumstances were, and we will close out this show talking about the common threads. I’m going to give you my blind reaction or my first reaction to how I would rank the jerseys. They’re all pretty much fire, and I’m not going to compare them to other seasons. I’d have to really look because some of these might be some of my favorites, but I will rank them as best as I can. I keep going back and forth, but I’m going to give you my ranking off the dome. Which Common Threads jerseys I like best. That’s coming up on today’s episode of Locked on Kraken. Today’s episode of Locked on Kraken, as I mentioned at the top of the show, mention it. As I mentioned at the top of the show, brought to you by our friends at FanDuel. We know the NFL season is upon us and FanDuel wants to make sure you are ready for kickoff and that is with our can’t miss offer again. Right now, new customers can bet $5 and if your first $5 bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets. And you can use those bonus bets all across the app. So many different use cases for folks over at FanDuel, including player props. You can do same game parlays, futures, bets, which is something that I talk about a lot on the show, and you can even jump in live as the action unfolds. It makes every game more exciting, whether you’re watching your team or just keeping an eye on your fantasy lineup. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s the best way to make Sundays even more energetic. So, are you ready to play? 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Um okay, so again, we talked about I ran through all of the players on the Seattle Kraken. I gave you some of the stats, individual stats, the team stats, goalie stats. Tough season. We kind of knew that going in, but it was the first season and it was special. And there’s some names on there that, you know, I’m going to spend extra time on when we get to them. Um, because some of these guys are just, you know, some are like a only like a faded memory. Like I feel like the old woman from uh I feel like I sound not like I look or feel, but I feel like I sound like the woman from Titanic. You know, I remember them now only in my memory. Um, but some of those guys it’s like, yeah, like little whispers of a of a memory, right? And other guys just quintessentially a part of my Kraken experience. I don’t know about you, I think if you listen to this show basically for more than five minutes, you know who one of my quintessential Kraken players um, is. And I, you know, it’s just someone that I wish was still on the team, but who embodies Kraken hockey to me. Um, I’d love for him to find his way back, but I don’t know if that’s going to happen. Uh, anyway, we’ll talk about him as this Where Are They Now series continues. So, I I’ve done the Where Are They Now in a three-part series talking about the expansion roster or the expansion draft picks. Now, not everyone from the expansion draft made the roster, and so I’ll talk about just some of those guys that did not play any games for the Seattle Kraken. Um, Gavin Batherther, Carson Trinsky, Tyler Pitlick, John Quinnville, Curtis McDerman, and Vitec Venich. Uh, and I know Striatic had a comment saying that there is an alternate universe in the Seattle Kraken universe, right? Where we get Venice instead of Philip Grudar. How would that have worked out in season one considering Chris Jger, you know, didn’t play too much. Joey Dax only a little bit here and there. Four games, four losses for him. Look at him now. Where is he now? But we’ll get to him. We’ll get to him. I guess I kind of I kind of did that and I said, you know, uh four games or few or 10 games or fewer. Technically, Joey Decord counts. I feel like I was going to save him for later because, you know, he’s played so many games. We might as well start with Joey. I talked to you about this going into I guess it would have been season three. I was hearing murmurss that not everyone wanted Joey Dax to maybe make this team the NHL team. We’re kind of maybe hoping that Chris Driger coming off of an ACL injury could could make something happen. Unfortunately, in season 3 or fortunately, I guess if you think about it from a Joy Decord perspective, Martin Jones didn’t stick around. But we’ll talk about where are they now season two. You already know who my MVP of season two is. Martin Jones, just in case that wasn’t clear. But um so Joey Dord, one of those players that played 10 or fewer games, but there’s some other guys that I want to talk about from this inaugural season. Alex Vare Boule, he was claimed off of waiverss from the Tampa Bay Lightning. He is still in the NHL with the Colorado Avalanche. He played um two total games before being placed on waiverss and then was um picked up off of waivers um by the Tampa Bay Lightning. And so, um you know, thinking about the Seattle Kraken, you know, there were just some players that they they didn’t really see too much time. But where is he now? Uh he went on to play as I mentioned for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 21-22 season and stayed with them until the end of the 23 24 season and then signed as a free agent in Montreal in July of 2024 and le and leading up to this season he signed as a free agent in Colorado. So that is where he is expected to be with the Avalanche organization. Moving on, someone that we talked about in the expansion draft, Dennis Chalowski, uh, Alex uh, Barre Boule, a centerman. Um, but Cholowski also someone on this list and he was claimed off of waiverss by the Seattle Kraken from the Washington Capitals on October 14th of 2021. So, he came to the Seattle Kraken um you know, early on in that first season. He only played four games for the Seattle Kraken. For the Kraken, his stats in those four games, no goals, two assists, so two points overall. He had a plus one plus minus. He had an average time on ice per game was at actually 19 minutes 43 seconds. So, eight shots recorded overall. He ended up signing as a free agent in uh New York with the Islanders on August 23rd of 2022. He kind of was back and forth between uh Washington and Seattle for a little bit, but never really made too much of a splash. Okay, moving on. Austin Zarnick, uh, a player that was claimed off of waivers from the Islanders, played six games for the Seattle Kraken. He was claimed off of waiverss by New the New York Islanders from Seattle on March 6th of 2022. When we look at his games for the Seattle Kraken, again, just the six games, two assists. Um, so those were his two points. He averaged 1048 time on ice and had five shots. He right now when we look at where he’s at, the last team that he played for 23-24, the Detroit Red Wings. He signed as a free agent with Detroit in July of 2022. Keeping it moving. players that have that did not play uh more than 10 games with the Seattle Kraken in the inaugural season. Alexander True Centerman was signed um by San Jose in 2018. He was claimed by the Seattle Kraken in the expansion draft in July of 2021 and he signed as a free agent in Florida in July of 2023 for the Seattle Kraken in the inaugural season. He played eight games a minus two time on ice 815. Now, he did play in the AHL when he was with the Kraken organization, first for the Checkers and then for the Firebirds in their inaugural season, but uh you know, that was pretty much all she wrote with regard to the NHL. Um but he has played overseas. Um and that’s where he is playing now. He’s playing in Sweden. All right, moving along. just two more players, including one who’s still on the Seattle Kraken roster, but Derek Pulot is a defender claimed off of waiverss by Seattle from the Vegas Golden Knights on March 21st of 2022. So, a part of that inaugural season, but on the back end, the 2022 part of it, the defenseman, uh, 61, 205 pounds, currently listed as part of the Rangers organization. He played nine games with the Seattle Kraken, three points, had a plus six penalty minutes, two, 15.46 time on ice per game. And then after Seattle, he was claimed off of or excuse me, after Seattle, he signed with the San Jose Sharks on March 2nd of 23. And then he went on to sign as a free agent with Dallas in July of 23. He signed as a free agent um in Tampa Bay by July of 2024. and he signed as a free agent with the New York Rangers in July of this year, 2025. The final player in our first installment of the Where Are They Now inaugural season roster is none other than Maddie Beneers. We know him. I think most of us still love him. Although again, the comments on YouTube in particular uh a little bit more Shane Wright heavy than Mattie B. I still believe in the year of veneers. He played those 10 magical games for the Seattle Kraken after getting a call up. He was phenomenal for the Seattle Kraken in the his first 10 games, three goals, six assists for nine points. He was a minus one. 1656 time on ice. Oh, we’re going to talk about Shane Wright’s time on ice in his rookie campaign and last year, but just something to keep in mind. 18 shots in 10 games. Uh he took 42 uh his faceoff percentage, excuse me, was a 42.4. He’s been pretty consistent tapping out at 47.7 in the 2024 25 season, but uh Mattie Beneers played uh he’s in that 10 or fewer category. Na Nathan Bastion just gets to 12 and will be in the next tier that we talk about that will be coming up this week on Locked on Kraken. You know, I cannot wait to talk about Donnie Boy, Ryan Donado. Let me know who’s your favorite player from the inaugural season of the Seattle Kraken. Were you watching the Kraken or were you rooting for someone else around that time? Let me know in the comments. Coming up next on Locked on Kraken, I’m gonna talk about the Common Threads jerseys. They made their debut on the interwebs and I for one cannot wait to see them live in Living Color. We’ll talk about that coming up on today’s episode of Locked on Kraken. Today’s episode of Locked on Kraken brought to you by our friends at Monarch Money. Most people, myself included, for the most part, can’t name all their financial accounts, or even what they’re worth. 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But I want to talk about the common threads. Now, this used to be known as kind of the hockey is for everyone night, but the Seattle Kraken rebranded and now we get um you know, we get these Common Threads uh jerseys and they’re pretty sick this year. Uh the Kraken Common Thread program. Unfortunately, because of decisions made by the National Hockey League, we don’t get to see these for warm-ups, but the Kraken have always found pretty cool ways to incorporate them into Seattle Kraken culture and Seattle culture overall. So, this year, the common threads have Hispanic Heritage Night on October 28th, then Indigenous People’s Night on December 16th, Pride Night on January 8th. um af um Asian-American Pacific Asian-American um Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Night, also known as AANHPI Night. That’s going to be on January 29th. Then there’s Black Hockey History Night on February 28th, coming right off the heels of the Olympics. What color will USA get? Will they medal? Who else will meddal? all of the things that I cannot wait to cover for you when I am in Milano Cortina for the Winter Olympics covering the women’s and men’s tournaments. Speaking of women in hockey, women in hockey night, March 10th, and Green Knight. Okay, the jerseys are sick. We can see of course they have the S, but then of course the secondary logo. This one is Green Knight right here. I see some floral elements. The eye has a nice uh kind of yellow but more of like a gold color there. I see some tulips. I don’t know the names of all the flowers, but I’m pretty sure there are tulips on here. And I like it. I dig it. Women in hockey night. I see roots. I see like just I I want to know more about this. And there are deeper dives here, but for this episode, I’m really just going into like the design and what my interpretation is. I love this the this idea of root roots and having that be women in hockey night. I I want to learn more about that. This one is a futuristic I did read a little bit more on this one. A futuristic take for black hockey history night. I love the idea of like a futurama. Um, pretty sick lines, you know, giving a galactic kind of vibe here. Um, not such an on-nose kind of, you know, pan-African flag vibe here. And really interesting wrinkle when it comes to the anchor. And there’s like a some kind of mechanism it seems like here. Um, I like it. I dig it a lot. The a NHP pi. I don’t know what these symbols mean exactly, but the flow to them I love. And it’s it’s definitely not so literal. There’s a smart design here in how it was done. It’s very simplistic, too. It’s very clean. It’s a clean uni. We’re going to have to have Jordan Dabney on. I know I mentioned it in passing. not my story to tell, but you know, when Jordan is ready to return in earnest and has handled some things uh with family, I’m super excited to have her break this down and what she thinks. I would love to get the artists. We’ll see if we can get some of the artists on the show to talk about this. Okay, Pride. We’ve got unicorns. We’ve got butterflies. We’ve got flowers. We’ve got rainbow hoops. We’ve got a rainbow horn, a rainbow mane, a rainbow tail, a rainbow uh space needle. This is going all out. And then there’s a floral element. I mentioned already, the maliposas or the butterflies. Love this. It is like that is a fierce unicorn and I’m here for it. In the S. Like the unicorn is in the S, but then like the the eye, the red glare is also there, but it’s not the Kraken eye, it’s a unicorn eye. Like I’m here for this. I love this design. It also is giving me like um and I don’t mean this in like a disparaging way. I mean it in more of like a nostalgic way. It’s giving me like what was that? What were those Trapper Keeper binders? Like Lisa Frank, right? It’s It’s like the color scheme, but it’s like an evolved like an elevated, you know, kind of Lisa Frank moment here. I love it. I love it. Okay. Indigenous people’s night. This goes hard. I see bird. I see fish. I love this design. Might be my favorite. I think it’s probably my number one. I’m gonna tell you in a minute, but I think this is my number one. I I think we’re going with that as my number one. And then there is Hispanic Heritage Night. Um, you know, I don’t I’m not picking up on all of the references here. Yeah, I wonder what the references are here. I have some inklings because Hispanic is a little bit different than Latino and that’s a whole thing. So culturally there are some elements that might not necessarily be my culture, but I feel like there are homages and point to different things. So I don’t want to speak out of turn here, but I I get the vibe that this is very much like c well they’re all celebrations or in theory they are, right? But like a very specific kind of cultural like coming of age vibe is what I’m getting here. And so there’s like this playful but also a tradition that’s being honored and represented here. I love kind of like that pink with the contrast of the red and almost like this neon kind of green here. I wonder what I I feel like are these stars estas three stars? Again, I feel like there’s a lot of symbolism that I can recognize but I don’t know the history behind. So, this one in particular I’m excited to learn more about. So, my favorite it’s between Indigenous People’s Night and I think Oh, I keep going back and forth. I love green and I love these roots. I really love the roots. I feel like another reason I didn’t look into some I just happened to read while I was opening the email, but I didn’t read too deep into the stories because a story will definitely sway me. I’m going with Okay, I’m going to give it to you. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Indigenous People’s Night. Indigenous People’s Night is my number one. Immediately I saw it and I was like, fuego fire. I want it on a hat. I want it on a puck. I want it on a pin. I almost never get the pins from Common Thread. I know they’re super popular. It’s like a whole vibe when you go to CPA and I’m not there enough, but I might have to order that thing because that I love this man. This is my favorite. This is definitely my favorite. Coming in at number two. Oh gosh. Oh man, this is tough. Not knowing the backstory, I’m going to go with black hockey history, but women in hockey sec like so close. They’re they might be tied for two, honestly. At number three, I’m just going to say they’re tied for two. At number three then is a NHPI night. I just love this. I think it’s so clean. I cannot wait to learn more about the symbolism here because like it feels like a whole vibe. I love that it’s just super simple but also not at the same time. This one goes so freaking hard. Again, like the Lisa Frank, the Trapper Keeper vibe here. Um, I love it. I love it. It almost like I feel like there’s a a world in which some people might think this is a little too busy, but it really works for me. I think that’s going to look really great on a jersey. I I also sometimes am like, would I wear this on a hat? I don’t know that I would like that on a hat, but like a sticker. I love stickers. I I love decal stickers. I would rock it as a decal sticker, but it doesn’t have the flexibility that some of the others have where I’m like, I need the I need the puck. I need the decal. I need the hat. You know, I love a nice hat. I love hats. I really do. And I I feel like for me, for my taste, it’s just like a little bit too much on a hat. I like my hats to be like sleek, clean, you know, because I want to then I want to wear my dangly earrings. I want to wear my anchor earrings or whatever. And so that’s just for me. So after that then comes probably, oh, Hispanic Heritage Night. I feel so guilty ranking these. And then Green Night. Yeah, that’s probably right. But all of them are freaking fire. That’s just me ranking like I test. I feel like I’m gonna have to rerank when I learn more about the storytelling in here because I think some are going to rise to the top because I love a good story. I can be sold into a story. I feel like women’s um women in hockey night, that story is probably going to be my favorite. The logo is so fire and I feel like I could tell a story just looking at that logo. So I want to know what the artist is trying to convey because I have a million things like I love the idea of roots and women and yes let me know what’s your favorite common thread design. And a reminder, if you haven’t already, set your alarms and your alerts because on Thursday at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time if you haven’t already ordered through some of the other pre-sales. It is the public pre-sale for the sick jersey that is the bioluminescent all black glowinthe-dark just absolutely stank of a jersey that I cannot wait to see the Seattle Kraken rack that I cannot wait to see the Seattle Kraken rock and have a sick hopefully winning record wearing these absolute bang hangers. I mean, these things, I love them. I love them so much. So, do you already have yours? I mean, season ticket holders, you could have put in your pre-order already, your pre-sale. I cannot wait to get my hands on one. And by that, I mean, I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to make the pre-sale. I’ve got I’ll be on air around that time. But um I I do hope when I’m in Seattle, we’re working on a few things where I can like physically touch the jersey, get to see some of the um elements in real life, and I’m super excited for that. Until next episode, we will talk more about Where Are They Now, the inaugural roster. I’ll tell you about some of my faves from that inaugural roster. We’ll continue to talk about this theme that I have going into rookie camp, which starts tomorrow, Thursday. vets versus new threats. And so we’ll be able to hear from some of these quote unquote new threats. We’ll hear from some personnel throughout the Kraken organization. And we will continue to go through, as I mentioned, our where are they now series. Until then, a reminder to be kind to yourselves, be kind to one another. And we hold fast, we stay true, and loud and proud we say, let’s go Kraken. Also, let’s go Seattle Storm, who we know is going to be in the playoffs, and they will get at least one home game in the first round at Climate Pledge Arena. I will catch you on the next episode. Peace out, everybody.

Where are they now? 🦑

Join host Erica L. Ayala as she dives into the Seattle Kraken inaugural roster and reveals where your favorite players from the 2021-22 season have landed today. From expansion draft originals to key contributors like Jared McCann and Yanni Gourde, Erica covers it all in this episode of Locked On Kraken, your daily podcast for everything SEAKraken!

Plus, get a sneak peek at the stunning Common Threads jerseys and hear Erica’s rankings of these cultural masterpieces. Stay tuned for a deeper look into the team’s journey, stats breakdowns, and updates on current players.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Seattle Kraken Inaugural Roster Update
01:29 – Seattle Kraken Inaugural Season Performance
10:22 – Common Threads Jerseys Launch Announcement
11:04 – NFL Season Preparation with FanDuel
12:18 – Daily Listener Appreciation
15:33 – Where Are They Now: 10 or Fewer Players
26:39 – Common Threads Jerseys Overview
31:45 – Ranking Common Threads Jerseys
37:04 – Public Pre-Sale Reminder
38:30 – Where Are They Now Series Recap

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