I would be too.
Though, listening to Francis at the end of season interview and having him fire Hakstol tells me there's some pressure.
Personally I'd try and trade next years pick(top ten protected) if there was ever a trade for a high end player but you've got to give to get.
Nah.
BTW: Here's my current top seven list/mock draft as of May 9th, 2024.
1) San Jose - Macklin Celebrini(who would've thought)
2) Chicago - Ivan Demidov
3) Anaheim - Artyom Levshunov
4) Columbus - Cayden Lindstrom
5) Monteal - Zeev Buium
6) Utah - Zayne Parekh
7) Ottawa - Sam Dickinson
That would leave the Kraken with the following options.
Defense - Anton Silayev, Carter Yakemchuk, Adam Jiricek
Forward - Berkley Catton, Cole Eiserman, Konsta Helenius, Tij Iginla, Michael Brandsegg-Nygaard, Beckett Sennecke etc.
If that top seven were to happen I think yo probably go forward at #8.
At least unless you really love the size and skating of Silayev and think he can become a dominant shutdown defender.
My preferred guy, out of the ones I mentioned, would be Catton, followed by Iginla and Eiserman.
Catton, potentially, has the whole package but injury concerns. Iginla has come along quite well and for all the flack he gets, Eiserman still just keeps on scoring and that's really hard to find as Kraken fans should know by now.
Also, if any of my top seven does fall to #8 you take him, IMO, even though Dickinson screems 2nd pairing/solid guy to me.