>“I don’t see us being as active in free agency as we were last year just based on where our roster is,” Kraken general manager Ron Francis said in an interview this week. “But that doesn’t mean we’re not open to looking at things whether it’s free agency, trades, what have you, to try to make our roster better. We’ll certainly explore all of those things.”
>Francis has until 2 p.m. PT Friday to make qualifying offers to RFA candidates Dunn, Morgan Geekie, Daniel Sprong, Will Borgen, Cale Fleury and minor leaguer Kole Lind. Players gain RFA eligibility after three years and before their six-year unrestricted free agent (UFA) status is gained.
>The players could balk at accepting those RFA offers and hope for a bid from another team — though this rarely happens — which the Kraken could then match to automatically keep them. All the Kraken’s RFA players also have arbitration rights and could exercise them within the next week to try to seek a one-year deal for more money and use the pending hearing as leverage against the Kraken during ongoing negotiations.
mat2019
I formally request a Vince Dunn extension
majorBotHead
Understandable but we do need to upgrade our top 6 dmen at the minimum
dwisp
Please just make the Vince Dunn deal 🙏
Icy-Book2999
If that’s the case, there should be a lot of news in the next 90 minutes?
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>“I don’t see us being as active in free agency as we were last year just based on where our roster is,” Kraken general manager Ron Francis said in an interview this week. “But that doesn’t mean we’re not open to looking at things whether it’s free agency, trades, what have you, to try to make our roster better. We’ll certainly explore all of those things.”
>Francis has until 2 p.m. PT Friday to make qualifying offers to RFA candidates Dunn, Morgan Geekie, Daniel Sprong, Will Borgen, Cale Fleury and minor leaguer Kole Lind. Players gain RFA eligibility after three years and before their six-year unrestricted free agent (UFA) status is gained.
>The players could balk at accepting those RFA offers and hope for a bid from another team — though this rarely happens — which the Kraken could then match to automatically keep them. All the Kraken’s RFA players also have arbitration rights and could exercise them within the next week to try to seek a one-year deal for more money and use the pending hearing as leverage against the Kraken during ongoing negotiations.
I formally request a Vince Dunn extension
Understandable but we do need to upgrade our top 6 dmen at the minimum
Please just make the Vince Dunn deal 🙏
If that’s the case, there should be a lot of news in the next 90 minutes?
I loved this group, something special