Whelp. We were pretty sure the Kraken were going to take Yanni Gourde and they sure did. I’m sure we all held out hope right up until Macklemore read his name off of a card that Julien BriseBois had worked out some sort of side deal to keep the popular forward in Tampa. Unfortunately, there was no side deal between Tampa Bay and Seattle (or, apparently with any team) and Gourde will head west this fall.
There weren’t many surprises in the selections and the overall reaction by most folks is that it was a decidedly average draft for the Kraken.