{"id":228221,"date":"2025-09-15T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228221\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:56:11","slug":"snapshots-kraken-johnson-dumais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228221\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots: Kraken, Johnson, Dumais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Kraken endured another disappointing campaign in 2024-25, going 35-41-6 and finishing seventh in the Pacific Division. The middling season <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/04\/kraken-to-fire-dan-bylsma.html\" rel=\"noopener\">cost head coach Dan Bylsma his job<\/a> after just one season at the helm of the club, and the team also did some shuffling at the top of their hockey operations hierarchy, promoting Ron Francis to the position of president of hockey operations and Jason Botterill to the position of general manager. On Friday, Botterill <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6620726\/2025\/09\/12\/seattle-kraken-jason-botterill-lebrun\/\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke to The Athletic\u2019s Pierre LeBrun<\/a> about the state of the franchise heading into his first season as GM.<\/p>\n<p>Botterill told LeBrun that he believes the \u201corganization in the next year or two has to take that step to be, I\u2019m not going to say a team that vies for the Stanley Cup, but a team that certainly competes for a playoff spot and is going to be in that mix in a constant way.\u201d He also said he was eager to see new coach Lane Lambert implement his defensive philosophies to help the team shore up its back-end. The Kraken surrendered the ninth-most goals against per game in the NHL last season. While it remains to be seen whether the Kraken will be able to build themselves up to true Stanley Cup contention the way the Vegas Golden Knights were able to early in their franchise\u2019s existence, there is a clear the mandate in Seattle is to take an urgently-needed step forward in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Other notes from across the NHL:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnser01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-14_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Erik Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, 37, is currently deciding between three different PTO offers in advance of the start of training camps, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jessemontano_\/status\/1967321754432651769\">reports Guerilla Sports\u2019 Jesse Montano<\/a>. Montano added that none of those three offers are from the Avalanche, the team Johnson not only finished 2024-25 as a member of, but also has spent most of his 1023-game NHL career with. The veteran blueliner has settled into more of a reserve role as he\u2019s progressed into his late thirties, though he could still have something to offer NHL teams in need of a defensive specialist with some leadership qualities. At the very least, he\u2019ll get the chance to compete for a role in an NHL camp and most likely play in some preseason games.<\/li>\n<li>Columbus Blue Jackets prospect <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeydb.com\/ihdb\/stats\/pdisplay.php?pid=235301\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordan Dumais<\/a><\/strong> took part in warmups before the team\u2019s prospect tournament game in Buffalo today, but was ultimately held out of the lineup for the contest. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Aportzline\/status\/1967319264979042347\">The Athletic\u2019s Aaron Portzline reports<\/a> that Dumais\u2019 absence relates to a \u201cslight tweak\u201d he felt in his lower-body, and that the club elected to hold him out of the game for entirely precautionary reasons. While his absence is entirely precautionary, this development is notable because persistent injury issues caused Dumais to miss a large chunk of time in each of the last two seasons. Dumais is not considered a likely contender for the Blue Jackets\u2019 season-opening roster, but could position himself for a call-up opportunity down the line if he can remain healthy and put together a strong preaseason and training camp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Kraken endured another disappointing campaign in 2024-25, going 35-41-6 and finishing seventh in the Pacific Division.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3110,18922,123316,123315,293,2086,2999,21208,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-228221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","9":"tag-erik-johnson","10":"tag-jason-botterill","11":"tag-jordan-dumais","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-seattle","14":"tag-seattle-kraken","15":"tag-snapshots","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115207248124706444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}