{"id":88219,"date":"2025-07-24T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88219\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:54:09","slug":"why-krakens-new-deal-with-kaapo-kakko-is-a-bet-on-upside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/88219\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kraken\u2019s new deal with Kaapo Kakko is a bet on upside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/seattle-kraken\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> announced Tuesday they signed forward <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/seattle-kraken-re-sign-kaapo-kakko-three-year-contract-nhl-arbitration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaapo Kakko to a three-year, $13.575 million contract <\/a>that will pay him an annual average value $4.525 million through the 2027-28 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The deal comes after Kakko, the 2019 No. 2 overall pick, <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/rangers-trade-kaapo-kakko-to-kraken-for-will-borgen-and-draft-picks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was traded to the Kraken<\/a> from the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/new-york-rangers\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Rangers<\/a> last December. In 2024-25, Kakko finished with 14 goals and 30 assists for 44 points in 79 regular-season games. Now entering his seventh NHL campaign, Seattle is betting that the one-time blue chip prospect in Kakko will evolve into the top-line producer scouts envisioned when he was drafted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Wednesday\u2019s episode of <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nbxk-4C8PCk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and Matt Larkin discuss the Kraken\u2019s latest signing and what Seattle needs to do if they want to climb out of the NHL\u2019s murky middle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\"><strong class=\"text-lg font-bold\">Tyler Yaremchuk<\/strong>: What I like about this is that it\u2019s an upside bet for the Kraken. I feel like this has been yet another summer where they aren\u2019t taking enough upside bets, going and signing a guy like Ryan Lindgren. I applaud them for doing this, I just think they need to do more of it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\"><strong class=\"text-lg font-bold\">Matt Larkin<\/strong>: I couldn\u2019t agree more. I have had a hard time understanding what the Kraken have been doing the last couple offseason. I thought bringing in Jason Botterill would change, because you\u2019re pivoting to a different general manager, but they\u2019re still doubling and tripling down on mid. Mason Marchment, Frederick Gaudreau, Ryan Lindgren, this is a team that just seems to want to live in that murky middle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">I\u2019ve said many times: they were hurt by making the playoffs in their second season. It elevated expectations, they couldn\u2019t build out their farm system. You need to have a base of young talent. That\u2019s why I do like this bet on Kaapo Kakko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Kraken announced Tuesday they signed forward Kaapo Kakko to a three-year, $13.575 million contract that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":88220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-88219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114907373349497902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88219","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=88219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}