{"id":780427,"date":"2026-07-04T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780427\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:12:09","slug":"kraken-working-with-shane-wright-to-find-a-suitable-trade-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780427\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken Working With Shane Wright To Find A Suitable Trade \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Wright<\/a>\u2019s tenure with the Kraken hasn\u2019t gone quite as well as he or the team would have hoped.\u00a0 Now, it appears his time in Seattle may be coming to an end.\u00a0 Wright\u2019s agent Kurt Overhardt told Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman<\/a> that the team has agreed to try to move him:<\/p>\n

I can confirm that we have had positive conversations with GM Jason Botterill, and he has agreed to move Shane this summer to a team in need of a top young centre.<\/p>\n

Botterill declined to comment on the report while Friedman noted that other league sources have suggested that there\u2019s an agreement between the team and Wright\u2019s camp to work on a deal but no firm guarantee a deal will happen.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old entered his draft year in 2022 as the consensus projected first-overall pick.\u00a0 However, he wasn\u2019t as dominant as expected in the OHL (though he still managed 94 points in 63 games) and ultimately slid to fourth overall, where Seattle scooped him up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Wright played in eight NHL games in each of his first two seasons; in doing so, he didn\u2019t activate the first year of his entry-level contract.\u00a0 He went back to junior in 2022-23 and, when eligible, Wright was assigned to AHL Coachella Valley for the bulk of the 2023-24 campaign where he had 22 goals and 25 assists in 59 games as one of the youngest players in the league.<\/p>\n

But that offensive success hasn\u2019t carried over to the NHL just yet.\u00a0 2024-25 was Wright\u2019s first full NHL campaign and he had a solid showing, notching 19 goals and 45 assists in 79 games.\u00a0 He was largely used in a middle-six role, often anchoring the third line where he struggled at the faceoff dot, winning just 44.4% of his draws (though that\u2019s fairly common for rookie centers).\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a flashy year but it seemed like a good start.<\/p>\n

Things went in the wrong direction last season, though.\u00a0 Wright saw his output drop to 12 goals and 15 helpers in 27 games while his faceoff rate dropped below the 40% mark.\u00a0 His usage was largely the same as he averaged a little under 14 minutes per game after being just above that the year before.\u00a0 His stock has dipped as a result.<\/p>\n

Having said that, 22-year-old centers still on their entry-level deal with the draft pedigree Wright has are hard to come by, especially in a market where any help down the middle is pricey.\u00a0 With that in mind, Botterill should be able to elicit a quality return for Wright\u2019s services, as long as he\u2019s open about different types of returns.<\/p>\n

While Overhardt is hopeful of Wright landing with a team that will use him in a second-line role, those types of teams may be more of the rebuilding type that can afford to give the extra developmental runway.\u00a0 But while Seattle is hoping to turn things around to get back into the playoffs, the types of teams that will likely have Wright slotted in that high on their depth chart probably don\u2019t have the type of win-now talent that Botterill would prefer to get in return.\u00a0 If he\u2019s willing to accept more of a futures-based return (draft picks or young prospects), that could boost the number of suitors for Wright.<\/p>\n

With the UFA market not really having too much in the way of impact centers available, the only other ways to address it are a trade (or a high-priced<\/a> offer sheet).\u00a0 Trades at this time of year aren\u2019t typically pressure-packed in terms of getting it done quickly so this is a situation that could take some time to get resolved.\u00a0 But as things stand, it looks like Wright could be getting a fresh start over the coming weeks or months.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Wright\u2019s tenure with the Kraken hasn\u2019t gone quite as well as he or the team would have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,4247,448,768,183154,82],"class_list":["post-780427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-shane-wright","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}