This led to the NFL and NHL teams in Carolina to swap brands on Twitter for the evening. The ESPN broadcasters did the most NHL thing and called the Canes the Carolina Panthers when announcing Morgan Geekie.Jordan Eberle checked in at his Seattle hotel under a fake name.Maybe the Kraken are getting Kerfoot for free too? There are varying reports of how juicy they are, from some saying keep an eye out for some big moves, while others are saying it’s probably going to be underwhelming. Furthermore, the Kraken are expected to make non-draft related trades today once the trade freeze ends.No one wanted the Dale Tallon egg on their faces. The story from Ron Francis is that cap space is incredibly valuable and he’s choosing to use it smartly, as well as the 30 teams weren’t willing to look like idiots the way Vegas did in 2017.Fans were notably upset online after waiting an hour and a half to see nothing new. On top of that, the Kraken did not make any compensation trades with teams, so not only did they leave a lot of talent on the table, but they didn’t get paid for doing so either (seriously they drafted an ECHLer!).Larsson got $4M for four years, and Oleksiak got $4.6M over five years. Within the selections, the Kraken signed two pending UFAs contracts: Adam Larsson from Edmonton and Jamie Oleksiak from Dallas.This basically made the Expansion Draft reveal show useless as none of the picks were a surprise.
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