Fresh off winning a gold medal as captain of Team Canada in the IIHF World Junior Championship, the Seattle Kraken reassigned top draft pick Shane Wright to the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League. FOX13
reassigned top draft pick Shane Wright to the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League.
"We're very proud of Shane's performance at the World Juniors, helping captain Team Canada to a gold medal," Kraken G.M. Ron Francis said,. "He has a bright NHL career ahead of him with the Kraken and now has an opportunity to lead his junior team as they compete for a Memorial Cup. We look forward to watching him the rest of this season and wish him well."
By reassigning Wright to his junior team in Kingston, his three-year entry level contract will slide to next year. A player can play in nine games in the NHL and still have their contract slide a year if they are returned to their junior team. Due to an agreement between the NHL and the Canadian Hockey League , players under 20 years old that are drafted from their teams can't be sent to the American Hockey League, which serves as the NHL's top minor league system.
The Kraken have stayed healthy at center all season. Alex Wennberg, Matty Beniers, Yanni Gourde and Morgan Geekie have primarily staffed the four lines in the middle through the season's first 37 games. Gourde has occasionally moved to wing and Ryan Donato has handled fourth line center duties on night's Geekie has been out of the lineup. But generally, all four centers have played well and aren't losing ice time to get Wright in action.
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