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Host Matthew Zator gets together with Jacob Billington and Mike Fink to react to the opening day of NHL Free Agency. In this clip, Jacob highlights the Seattle Kraken as an early winner after signing Chandler Stephenson and Brandon Montour.
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Jacob, who's your early winner on this day
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I mean, apart from Chicago, it seems like we're, we're kind of a bit of a winner so far
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Um, I'm going to stick with, um, I was talking about Chandler Stevenson already, and I'm going to stick with the Seattle Kraken
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Um, they made some pretty good additions. They signed, um, I think it was just Brandon Montour and
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Stevenson at the NHL level, but you add Brandon Montour to a defense
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group that already has Vince Dunn, Adam Larson, like this is a
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really quality defense group now. And they're all kinds of players that are underrated and Montour
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outside of his 72 point season last year has been underrated. And he was this year, arguably, he didn't put up as many points, but people
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just didn't appreciate how good he was for the Florida Panthers. And now Seattle is getting a Stanley cup champion
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So I think that they made those two moves and it made
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them significantly better. I think that those two moves are more impactful to the Kraken than
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any other moves to any other team. I agree. And especially after a season that, you know, they, they made the playoffs
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in there before, and then they kind of fell out and now they've kind of
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thinking, well, we are, we want to go back there and yeah, adding those two
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guys, that's actually some pretty big signings and that solidifies, I mean
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like you mentioned Chandler Stevenson already, he is a very underrated center
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And we talked about him being, you know, the second line center on the Vegas golden Knights
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He was actually their top line center before Jack Eichel came and, and
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he was pretty good in that role. I mean, going into and playing, like you said, with Bunears and he's
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a very good versatile center. And he's going to fit in really well in Seattle for sure
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And then Montour, we saw what he's been doing in Florida and, and adds to a
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pretty good defense group that they have already you know, with Vince
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Dunn and Adam Larson, that that's a pretty good group now. We'll see how he kind of, I think he kind of maybe replaces what Carson
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Susi brought before he, he left and that maybe a bit more offense, not maybe
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definitely a bit more, more offense. I, and that's, yeah, I'd say Seattle's a pretty good, pretty good
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pick for a winner right now too
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