{"id":557526,"date":"2026-04-21T22:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557526\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:24:16","slug":"inside-the-seattle-storms-wnba-draft-steal-and-whats-next-with-the-kraken-retool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/557526\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Seattle Storm&#8217;s WNBA Draft steal and what&#8217;s next with the Kraken Retool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 Niko<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0mwlgqcoYyY?si=YgIGlxFZkw2vQ3E6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> talks one-on-one with new Seattle Storm star Flau&#8217;Jae Johnson<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/sports\/storm\/seattle-storm-wnba-2026-draft-picks-awa-fam-flaujae-johnson-taina-mair-grace-vanslooten-womens-basketball-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">franchise fleeced Golden State for her rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Chris and Niko interpret what the <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/original-seattle-kraken-gm-ron-francis-to-leave-franchise-president-of-hockey-operations-nhl-sports-expansion-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">end of the Ron Francis era<\/a> means for the Seattle Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/sports\/flaujae-arrives-in-seattle-set-on-continuing-an-inspirational-story-wnba-storm-player-no-8-draft-pick-lsu-guard-womens-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Flau&#8217;jae Johnson arrives in Seattle, set on continuing an inspirational story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch previous episodes of Inside the Arena on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLZm7uq7_dyY6-s5G1uUxba1AfR0IXxzhr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KOMO News YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/original-seattle-kraken-gm-ron-francis-to-leave-franchise-president-of-hockey-operations-nhl-sports-expansion-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Kraken president Ron Francis to leave franchise at season&#8217;s end<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>Inside the Arena is presented by Snoqualmie Casino and Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Niko talks one-on-one with new Seattle Storm star Flau&#8217;Jae Johnson after the franchise fleeced Golden State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-557526","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\/116445043989013336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557526","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=557526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}