Confirmed Signing with Link: [SEA] Kraken sign Antoine Bibeau (1 year, $750k, two-way)

[uncleben]

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[Kcoyote3]

Cool

 

[HabsQC]

So that's the big move that explains their shit expansion draft

 

[T_Cage]

I didn’t even know the Kracken had an ECHL affiliate that needed a backup

 

[Dog]

Had not to bad numbers in Chicago (ahl) last season.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

The Kraken have quite the Goalie depth this upcoming season.

Keep making their team big at every position too I find.

 

[Gstank]

Im so confused by everything Seattle has done. Like is there even a plan or are they just trying to wing it

 

[banks]

Edit: oops, wrong thread.

Bibeau is a #4 goalie. So at least he's slotted right for Seattle.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Kraken..... it still looks weird and sounds weird. Seattle Kraken....
Its gonna take time until i get used to to that name.

 

[varano]

He stinks

 

[uncleben]

He stinks

Lol very insightful

He's a number 4 on a team that had only 3 goalies under contract, and will be playing in Charlotte, the team where he played last year and was probably going to play on an AHL deal anyway
This just saves SEA from having to make an emergency signing or trade if it gets to that point
But if Bibeau does see significant NHL time, Seattle has bigger problems anyway

 

[Brodeur]

Im so confused by everything Seattle has done. Like is there even a plan or are they just trying to wing it

Teams need a 3rd/4th goaltender for depth purposes, not sure why that's so confusing.

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As others mentioned, Seattle will be sharing an AHL affiliate with Florida this season so we'll see if Bibeau ends up being loaned out elsewhere. Seattle also has Joey Daccord and Florida has (presumably) Sam Montembeault and Chris Gibson, so there might be a crowded crease. Bibeau probably got one of the last AHL spots left open; With Carey Price's injury, it looks like Montreal has a spot open eventually. I might have missed a signing and/or which European goalies might be loaned out, but here's a rough idea of current goalie depth charts around the league:

ANA: Gibson | Stolarz | Dostal | Eriksson-Ek | Durny
ARZ: Hutton | Korenar | Prosvetov | Velmelka | Tendeck
CGY: Markstrom | Vladar | Parsons | Wolf | Werner
EDM: Smith | Koskinen | Skinner | Konovalov | Rodrigue
LAK: Quick | Petersen | Sparks | Villalta | Ingham
SEA: Grubauer | Driedger | Bibeau | Daccord
SJS: Reimer | Hill | Melnichuk | Sawchenko | Emond
VAN: Demko | Halak | DiPietro | Martin | Silovs
VGK: Lehner | Broissoit | Thompson | Ferguson | Patera

CHI: Fleury | Lankinen | Subban | Delia | Soderblom
COL: Kuemper | Francouz | Johansson | Annunen | Miska | Miner
DAL: Bishop (inj) | Khudobin | Holtby | Oettinger | Point | Scheel
MIN: Talbot | Kahkonen | Hammond | Jones | Baribeau
NSH: Saros | Rittich | Ingram | Vomacka | Cooley
STL: Binnington | Husso | Lindgren | Hofer | Ellis
WPG: Hellebuyck | Comrie | Berdin | Holm

BOS: Ullmark | Swayman | Grosenick | Keyser | Booth
BUF: Dell | Anderson | Luukkonen | Tokarski
DET: Greiss | Nedeljkovic | Pickard | Larsson | Fulcher | Brattstrom
FLO: Bobrovsky | Knight | Montembeault | Gibson
MON: Price (inj) | Allen | Primeau | McNiven
OTT: Murray | Forsberg | Gustavsson | Sogaard | Mandolese | Merilainen
TBL: Vasilevskiy | Elliott | Lagace | Alnefelt | Miftakhov
TOR: Campbell | Mrazek | Hutchinson | Woll | Kallgren | Scott

CAR: Andersen | Raanta | Makiniemi | Warm | Wells
CLB: Merzlikins | Korpisalo | Tarasov | Johnson
NJD: Blackwood | Bernier | Wedgewood | Daws | Schmid
NYI: Varlamov | Sorokin | Skarek | Appelby
NYR: Shesterkin | Georgiev | Kinkaid | Huska | Wall
PHI: Hart | Jones | Sandstrom | Ersson | Ustimenko
PIT: Jarry | DeSmith | Lindberg | D'Orio
WSH: Samsonov | Vanecek | Copley | Shepard | Fucale

 

[Taytro]

Im so confused by everything Seattle has done. Like is there even a plan or are they just trying to wing it

What are you talking about, they've done amazing. What other teams have 9 or 10 NHL caliber D men who all need waivers!? Obviously they're dressing 3 forward lines and 5 D pairings, it's the modern NHL, have to be creative!