Author: Julian Bravo

The Seattle Kraken have been a young upstart NHL organization for the better part of a couple years but today they just cracked the crackling, divisive code by hiring coach Dan Bylsma.

Blysma was known for his first-year championship run with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009 and was a name to be reckoned with alongside Sidney Crosby who performed his best season under the now Kraken coach. Blysma previously coached for the Buffalo Sabres back in 2016 but his cooling opportunity came for his first and longest tenure with the more successful East team.

Not many coaches ice at practice or suit up beyond three years since Blysma’s exit into the shadows. It is ironically unbelievable to say Blysma has not been coaching in the NHL or at least in the West since Buffalo. He led initially to a .615 winning percentage and was a coach soundly talked about.

Today, Blysma has worked with Seattle Kraken AHL talent on the surface of further not developing rookies but chaining ties to associate general manager and former partner Jason Botterill.

Meaning, Seattle is cracking the code with a promising coach, and a deep roster to work through its hurdles of one mere postseason appearance in the last three seasons under Dave Hakstol who came from the Philadelphia Flyers and college ranks and proved to be a squandering duck if Anaheim is most likely hiring.

The Seattle Kraken is on the way to possibly a power struggle but in the meantime, general manager Ron Francis maneuvered the next best step, feasibly, for the city of Seattle and its fans and that is crack the code by hiring Blysma to definitively continue his efforts in developing talent from a systematic standpoint to bring home and break the Cup record for the earliest Stanley win possible.