{"id":553588,"date":"2026-04-16T02:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553588\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:42:13","slug":"kraken-news-seattle-gets-brutal-jaden-schwartz-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553588\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken news: Seattle gets brutal Jaden Schwartz injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/nhl-stories\/clutchpoints-nhl-power-rankings-week-25-avalanche-lead-pack-postseason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken have been eliminated from postseason contention<\/a>. As a result, the team is only playing for pride at this point. Unfortunately, the grind of the NHL season takes no breaks. And the Kraken will have to do battle without forward Jaden Schwartz as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz will not skate in Wednesday&#8217;s contest against the Vegas Golden Knights, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeattleKrakenPR\/status\/2044588693252653244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the team announced<\/a> on social media. The team did not divulge what specific injury the veteran forward is dealing with. However, they did note that it is an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz may have just completed his 15th season in the NHL, and his fifth with the Kraken. The veteran winger has been a reliable presence for Seattle since the team&#8217;s debut in 2021-22. He was a helpful part of the team&#8217;s 100-point season in 2023 that saw them come within a game of the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024-25, the veteran winger turned in one of the best seasons of his career. He scored 26 goals \u2014 his best since 2014-15 \u2014 and 49 points in 82 games. The Kraken did not make the playoffs, but he made a big impact on the success they did find last year.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that success was not replicated in 2025-26. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/seattle-kraken\/kraken-news-jaden-schwartz-brutal-injury-update-playoff-push\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Schwartz has struggled with injury throughout the season<\/a>. He entered play on Wednesday having played just 50 games. He has 11 goals and 26 points in those games.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, the Kraken are not going to the Stanley Cup Playoffs. As a result, Schwartz may have already played the final game of his 2025-26 campaign. Hopefully, the injury isn&#8217;t anything serious, and the veteran winger can return to full health over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Kraken have been eliminated from postseason contention.  As a result, the team is only playing for pride at this point.  Unfortunately, the grind of the NHL season takes no breaks.  And the Kraken will have to do battle without forward Jaden Schwartz as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Kraken have been eliminated from postseason contention. As a result, the team is only playing for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-553588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-kraken","13":"tag-seattlekraken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116412084656861892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}