The Seattle Kraken will be well represented at the 2026 World Junior Summer Showcase, with five prospects headed to Windsor, Ontario, next month.
Chase Reid leads the group. The defenseman, selected seventh overall in last week’s NHL Draft, is one of three Kraken players on Team USA.
Reid is coming off a strong season with Sault Ste. Marie in the Ontario Hockey League, where he posted 48 points, including 18 goals and 30 assists, with 20 power-play points in 45 regular-season games.
At the 2026 WJC, he added four points - two goals and two assists - while averaging 20:06 of ice time across five games.
Reid has already committed to Michigan State University, and there’s a neat wrinkle here: Spartans coach Adam Nightingale is also the Showcase coach for Team USA. The event itself will be held July 26-Aug. 1 at WFCU Centre, and it’s the first evaluation step for the 2027 IIHF World Junior Championship. NHL.com says the camp will include practices and games involving players from the United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden.
Reid won’t be the only Kraken name on the American roster. Forward Casey Mutryn, a second-round pick in 2026, is also set for Windsor.
He’ll be joined by his older brother Teddy Mutryn, a 2025 draft pick of the San Jose Sharks. The brothers are from Norwell, Mass.
The third Seattle prospect on Team USA is Blake Fiddler, another second-round selection, this one from the 2025 draft. The defenseman from Frisco, Texas has spent the past three seasons with the WHL Edmonton Oil Kings.
Seattle’s two Team Sweden representatives both come from different draft classes. Ola Palme, a 2026 sixth-round pick, is a mobile left-shot defenseman whose game has earned praise for his puck movement and his read on the play.
DobberProspects.com describes him as a “Mobile, two-way left-shot defenseman who moves the puck cleanly and reads the game well beyond his draft slot. Palme is the kind of defenseman who gets undersold on draft boards because the appeal is in his reliability rather than highlight offense.”
Joining him for Sweden is forward Loke Krantz, a seventh-round pick by Seattle last year. Dobber Prospects calls him “A large, strong winger beginning to gain his footing in the Swedish Junior leagues,” and adds that he is “a great swing by the Kraken in the 7th round.”
Canada and Finland have not yet announced their rosters for the showcase.
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