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Seattle Kraken forward Tye Kartye, front, celebrates his goal against the Colorado Avalanche with defenseman Will Borgen during the second period of Game 5 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Seattle Kraken’s offseason reluctantly begins after turnaround season of emergence

Mix aging veterans, budding rookies helped NHL’s newest team fall one goal short of the final four

 

Seattle Kraken right wing Jordan Eberle (7) throws a stuffed salmon to fans as they celebrate the Kraken’s 4-2 win against the Detroit Red Wings in an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Seattle Kraken partner with Muckleshoot Indian Tribe for groundbreaking jersey ad

‘Maybe someday a young Muckleshoot kid wears that jersey with that patch on it’

 

FILE - Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks at a rally at Westlake Park in Seattle, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in response to the news that the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. One of Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather – a man she “otherwise loved very much” – utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. Now an elected official in a city thousands of miles from India, she has proposed an ordinance to add caste to Seattle’s anti-discrimination laws. (Jennifer Buchanan/The Seattle Times via AP)

VIDEO: Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination

The topic has been a contentious one in the States in recent years

 

In this photo provided by Prem Pariyar, a Dalit Hindu from Nepal, he works on a banner at a People’s Summit for Democracy event in Los Angeles in June 2022. He moved to the U.S. in 2015, but says he couldn’t escape stereotyping and discrimination because of his caste-identifying last name, even as he tried to make a new life thousands of miles away from home. (Courtesy of Prem Pariyar)

Seattle considers historic law barring caste discrimination

If passed Tuesday, the law will become a first in the U.S.

In this photo provided by Prem Pariyar, a Dalit Hindu from Nepal, he works on a banner at a People’s Summit for Democracy event in Los Angeles in June 2022. He moved to the U.S. in 2015, but says he couldn’t escape stereotyping and discrimination because of his caste-identifying last name, even as he tried to make a new life thousands of miles away from home. (Courtesy of Prem Pariyar)
FILE - Edmonton Oilers’ Adam Larsson (6) is shown during an NHL hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks in Vancouver, British Columbia, in this Monday, May 3, 2021, file photo. Adam Larsson and Chris Driedger are going to the Seattle Kraken in the expansion draft. (AP Photo/Nick Didlick, File)

Seattle Kraken sets first roster, will open season at Vegas

‘I envisioned this a lot of different ways and this is unbelievable’

FILE - Edmonton Oilers’ Adam Larsson (6) is shown during an NHL hockey game against the Vancouver Canucks in Vancouver, British Columbia, in this Monday, May 3, 2021, file photo. Adam Larsson and Chris Driedger are going to the Seattle Kraken in the expansion draft. (AP Photo/Nick Didlick, File)
A Washington state Department of Transportation traffic camera captures an image of a train that derailed north of Seattle, close to the Canadian border on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Authorities say it was carrying crude oil. (Washington State Department of Transportation via AP)

Train carrying crude oil derails, burns north of Seattle

The interstate was also closed in that area in both directions

A Washington state Department of Transportation traffic camera captures an image of a train that derailed north of Seattle, close to the Canadian border on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Authorities say it was carrying crude oil. (Washington State Department of Transportation via AP)
The NHL unveiled the name of its 32nd team, the Seattle Kraken. (Seattle Kraken)

Release the Kraken: Seattle unveils name for NHL franchise

Team will play out of Seattle

The NHL unveiled the name of its 32nd team, the Seattle Kraken. (Seattle Kraken)
Two people walk past a memorial Sunday, June 28, 2020, in Seattle, for people of color believed to have died in police custody, where several streets are blocked off in what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan met with demonstrators Friday after some lay in the street or sat on barricades to thwart the city’s effort to dismantle the protest zone that has drawn scorn from President Donald Trump and a lawsuit from nearby businesses. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Another shooting in Seattle’s protest zone leaves 1 dead

Seattle police did not immediately release more information about the shooting

Two people walk past a memorial Sunday, June 28, 2020, in Seattle, for people of color believed to have died in police custody, where several streets are blocked off in what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan met with demonstrators Friday after some lay in the street or sat on barricades to thwart the city’s effort to dismantle the protest zone that has drawn scorn from President Donald Trump and a lawsuit from nearby businesses. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)