Ron Francis thinks Shane Wright is capable of spending the entire year in Seattle

It appears that the pre-season performances of 2022 fourth overall pick Shane Wright have won over his General Manager, Ron Francis.

In an interview with Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic on Wednesday, Francis said that he believes Shane Wright will spend the entire 2022-23 season with the Kraken.

So far in the pre-season, Wright has appeared in four games, tallying one assist and eight shots on goal. Seattle has one pre-season game left before they open the season in Anaheim on October 12th. At the very least, Wright will start the season with the Kraken and the coaching staff and management will evaluate where he's at before deciding to keep him in Seattle or send him back to Kingston in the OHL.

Wright, 18, was projected to go first overall in July's draft, but was surpassed by Juraj Slafkovsky (Montreal), Simon Nemec (New Jersey) and Logan Cooley (Arizona) who went 1, 2 and 3 respectively. The Burlington (Ontario) native wasn't too happy to drop down to fourth overall, believing that he should have gone higher, but he will now form a solid 1-2 punch down the middle with 19-year-old Matty Beniers, for a long-time to come.

Kraken GM thinks Wright will play whole season in Seattle https://t.co/HEq2TrkSqV pic.twitter.com/IHFmi63mVu— theScore NHL (@theScoreNHL) October 5, 2022

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