Daccord and McCann are still out, and Seattle's offseason math doesn't add up without them

Already wrote this note four days ago, and nothing has changed — which is itself the update. Joey Daccord and Jared McCann remain out, no timeline offered, training camp getting closer. The Kraken did the reasonable offseason work: added Mackie Samoskevich, locked up Bobby McMann for six years, signaled they're building rather than blowing it up. That plan holds together only if the two players who weren't replaced actually come back.

McCann is the sharper edge of the concern. He played just 23 games last season and still finished as Seattle's most efficient scorer — 19 points in that limited sample, at a rate that led the team. The Kraken's offense averaged 2.0 goals a game over their final ten contests, down nearly a full goal from the preceding stretch. McCann wasn't available for most of that collapse, and his absence was part of why the math got so ugly down the stretch.

Daccord is the other half. A team betting on incremental improvement needs its starting goaltender available from October. There's no indication here of who steps in if he's not ready, and that's not a small gap to paper over.

My read is that the front office made the right moves given what they controlled. The problem is the two most consequential questions heading into 2026–27 — is Daccord healthy, is McCann healthy — are the two they can't answer yet.