Over the summer, only three fan bases had less confidence in their respective front offices than the Kraken’s, and now, only three franchises are projected to finish the season with fewer points. Give the fans their credit; they have the situation pretty well diagnosed.

It’s one thing to be sub-mediocre, which Seattle has certainly managed over the last two seasons. It’s another to seem functionally directionless — and that’s where the Kraken now find themselves. A new GM (Jason Botterill) and new head coach (Lane Lambert) are charged with plotting a new course, but the immediate future, after several batches of questionable contracts and poor cap management, looks bleak.

The projection

Seattle is a great example of this sport’s year-to-year variance. The first year of Kraken hockey was

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