The Seattle Kraken made a pair of roster moves that put Jagger Firkus in line for the first NHL call of his career, even if he never actually gets into a game.
According to a team announcement, Seattle recalled Firkus from the AHL’s Coachella Valley Firebirds and placed Curtis Douglas on injured reserve with an upper-body ailment.
Firkus, who was selected 35th overall in the 2022 NHL Draft, has been building toward this moment for a while. The Irma, AB, native put up 36 goals and 80 points in 66 games with the Moose Jaw Warriors during his draft year, then spent two more seasons with the club and piled up 101 goals and 214 points in 129 games while posting a +22 rating. He also had a huge run in the 2024 WHL Playoffs, scoring 14 goals and 32 points in 20 games as Moose Jaw won the championship.
His first pro season with Coachella Valley was solid right away. In 69 games during the 2024-25 campaign, Firkus scored 15 goals and finished with 36 points, along with a +8 rating. Since then, he’s taken another step, adding 25 goals and 68 points over his last 75 games.
Even with that scoring touch, Seattle may not have an immediate opening for him. The Kraken already had Jani Nyman on the roster after he stepped in for the injured Jared McCann in late October, and Nyman skated on the fourth line in Seattle’s recent game against the Calgary Flames while filling Douglas’s spot.
Douglas’ stay on injured reserve should be short. The team considers him day-to-day with the upper-body issue, and he had gone scoreless in four games before getting hurt. In that stretch, he blocked five shots and landed 10 hits.
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