{"id":185884,"date":"2025-09-27T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/185884\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:35:07","slug":"kaapo-kakko-out-six-weeks-with-broken-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/185884\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaapo Kakko Out Six Weeks With Broken Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy day for the Kraken today.\u00a0 After making 21 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/09\/training-camp-cuts-9-27-25.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cuts<\/a> from their training camp roster earlier today, they will now be without a key forward when the regular season gets underway.\u00a0 The team announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeattleKraken\/status\/1971975662731690006\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kakkoka01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kaapo Kakko<\/a> is expected to miss the next six weeks due to a broken hand.<\/p>\n<p>Kakko was acquired midseason from the Rangers last season in exchange for defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/borgewi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">William Borgen<\/a>, plus 2025 third and sixth-round picks.\u00a0 The move worked for New York as they quickly locked up Borgen to a long-term deal while it also worked quite well for the Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>Before the swap, Kakko had just four goals and 10 assists in 30 games but the change of scenery helped him rediscover his offensive form.\u00a0 He picked up 10 goals and 20 helpers in 49 games with Seattle while his playing time went up by nearly four minutes per game to a little over 17 minutes a night as he became a regular in their top six.\u00a0 He also had a pair of assists in two games in this month\u2019s preseason action.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024 offseason, Kakko looked like a possible non-tender candidate before effectively accepting his $2.4MM qualifying offer before it was even officially tendered.\u00a0 But the way he finished up with Seattle gave him much more leverage heading into an arbitration-eligible summer and he was able to ink a three-year, $13.575MM pact that gives him some security and the Kraken two extra years of club control.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tough blow for the 24-year-old as that second-half positive momentum is now on hold since he\u2019ll miss at least the first month of the season.\u00a0 While Seattle shouldn\u2019t need to put him on LTIR given that they have plenty of cap flexibility at the moment, Kakko will be eligible to go on there if necessary as he\u2019ll miss at least 10 games and 24 days.\u00a0 From there, he\u2019ll hope to pick up where he left off as Seattle will be counting on him to be a top-six piece for them upon his return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a busy day for the Kraken today.\u00a0 After making 21 cuts from their training camp&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[10156,54593,385,4831,99],"class_list":["post-185884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-injury","tag-kaapo-kakko","tag-nhl","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}