The Seattle Kraken created a nucleus for their first couple of seasons with the selections made in the expansion draft.

Four years after the Vegas Golden Knights burst into the NHL by making 10 trades at their expansion draft, the Seattle Kraken came away with none.

Visually, Garrett Goody stood out.In a sea of blue blankets and fans in Kraken gear during Wednesday night’s NHL expansion draft at Gas Works Park, Goody’s red, white and green Seattle Metropolitans jersey was easy to pick out of the crowd.

The Kraken expansion draft lacked drama after all 30 picks leaked out hours before they were revealed, but it had plenty of Seattle to introduce the NHL's 32nd franchise.

The Seattle Kraken will finally put player faces to their team name on Wednesday, when they complete the expansion draft.

Short of being awarded the franchise and the completion of an arena, the biggest step in the creation of the Seattle Kraken comes Wednesday with the expansion draft.

This “mock draft” thing was supposed to get easier once NHL teams revealed their players protected from the Seattle Kraken in Wednesday’s expansion draft.

There aren’t any with a “Carey Price” name affixed to them – at least not yet – but the Seattle Kraken does plan to unveil the team’s home and away sweaters as Wednesday’s NHL expansion draft unfolds.

An array of celebrities — including sports figures Marshawn Lynch, Gary Payton, Sue Bird and Jordan Morris as well as Grammy-nominated performing artist Macklemore and Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer — will appear to help announce Seattle Kraken picks Wednesday during ESPN2’s broadcast of the NHL expansion draft from Gas Works Park.

Ron Francis is on the clock.

SEATTLE – When the NHL hit the accelerator on expansion some 30 years ago, it brought hockey to untapped markets, warm weather destinations and established a footprint throughout all corners of North America.

It looks as if the Seattle Kraken are going to get a rousing welcome from fans in Spokane for their preseason opener in September.

The Seattle Kraken is on the clock after the Tampa Bay Lightning wrapped up a second consecutive Stanley Cup title Wednesday by beating the Montreal Canadiens in five games.

With the clock ticking on their time together, the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning talked about what they already knew was their last Stanley Cup run as a group.

Tampa Bay Lightning players surrounded the Stanley Cup again, putting their hands all over the trophy they won for the second time in 10 months.It was a familiar sight for the NHL's back-to-back champions, even if it was different in every possible way.

It was no coincidence 5-foot-9 Montreal forward Brendan Gallagher kept going after 6-foot-6 Tampa Bay defenseman Victor Hedman after the first period in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, shoving him and moving linesmen out of the way to continue the altercation.The Canadiens still look overmatched trailing the Lightning 3-1, but they finally showed some fire in staving off elimination and forcing a Game 5.

Now the Tampa Bay Lightning know what the Montreal Canadiens felt like the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final.

MONTREAL – Josh Anderson jumped back into the play, and the Montreal Canadiens killed Tampa Bay’s chance for a Stanley Cup sweep.

Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks died of chest trauma from an errant fireworks mortar blast in what authorities described Monday as a tragic accident on the Fourth of July.