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Here’s a look at the expected 2025-26 Kraken lineup with a brief best-case scenario and worst-case description for each player with their points and games from last season:

Jason Botterill got to do the honors this time, informing the players who had to play their way onto a Kraken roster spot that their efforts had been rewarded. The first-year general manager summoned Berkly Catton, 19, and Ryan Winterton, 22, to give them some of the happiest news of their careers so far.

It’s official 19-year-old Berkly Catton, the third-highest scorer in the Western Hockey League last season, will start the NHL season with the Seattle Kraken.

SEATTLE – It’s one of the first questions – and really the only question that matters right now – for Berkly Catton.

SEATTLE – On Monday the Kraken brought back 23-year-old defenseman Ryker Evans, their second-ever draft pick in 2021, on a two-year deal with an average annual value of $2.05 million.

The Seattle Kraken’s breakneck Season 5, condensed by the NHL’s return to the Winter Olympics, will kick off at Climate Pledge Arena against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. The Kraken will host the Vegas Golden Knights that Saturday, then head out on a six-game road trip.

NHL free agency underscores Kraken’s need to develop top prospects.

The Seattle Kraken signed unrestricted free agent Ryan Lindgren, a defenseman, to a four-year contract with an average annual value of $4.5 million hours after the UFA window opened.

SEATTLE – There was no need for Kraken GM Jason Botterill to get so defensive.

SEATTLE – The Seattle Kraken used the No. 8 pick in the NHL entry draft Friday night to select another center, Jake O’Brien, an alternate captain for the Brantford Bulldogs of the Ontario Hockey League.

SEATTLE – The Seattle Kraken have the same first-round pick in a new setting on Friday night. The NHL is trying out a decentralized entry draft, meaning league commissioner Gary Bettman and top prospects will be at L.A. Live’s Peacock Theater. The Kraken decision-makers, however, will be in Seattle, participating virtually.

SEATTLE – Jason Botterill enrolled at Michigan at only 17, a rarity in the sport then and now.

SEATTLE – The Kraken picked up Dallas Stars left winger Mason Marchment at a discount on Thursday.

SUNRISE, Fla. – All you need to know about what makes the Florida Panthers special was revealed in the moments immediately after captain Aleksander Barkov got his hands back on the Stanley Cup on Tuesday.

SUNRISE, Fla. – The Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup champions – again.

EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers have never needed the best of Connor McDavid more than they do right now.

EDMONTON – It wasn’t quite the famous Mark Messier guarantee, but Jake Walman’s words after a dreadful loss in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final had the same sentiment.

EDMONTON, Alberta – The Stanley Cup will be inside Amerant Bank Arena on Tuesday night. The question is whether it’ll be paraded around the ice for a second year in a row by evening’s end.

MIAMI – Early goals, historically late goals, once-in-a-century comebacks, overtime games that seemed about to end three, four, 17 times before they did, gorgeous goals and saves ... only four games in, this year’s Panthers-Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cup Final rematch might be the best sequel since “The Godfather, Part II.” Or, at least, “The Empire Strikes Back.”