Kate Shefte

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Kate Shefte

New PWHL Seattle general manager Meghan Turner has a lot of decisions to make and quickly. “It’s certainly not lost on me, the responsibility and the trust that is on me to represent this league well and to build a great, winning organization with a winning culture,” Turner, 30, said Friday. Vancouver and Seattle are the nearly two-year-old Professional Women’s Hockey League’s first two expansion franchises. Turner came over from one of the “inaugural six” teams, the Boston Fleet.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Kate Shefte

New Kraken coach Lane Lambert’s name rarely came up until the last week or so. He isn’t the known entity some expected. Teams he’s overseen have made the playoffs 10 of 14 seasons, and his name is on the Stanley Cup. But Lambert’s NHL head-coaching resume is limited to a year and a half behind the Islanders bench. “There’s a lot of great coaches out there and in different roles,” Jason Botterill, the Kraken’s general manager of one month and counting, said. “He’s not just been a guy standing there.

1 week ago | tri-cityherald.com | Kate Shefte

May 29-The Kraken named Lane Lambert the third coach in franchise history on Thursday. Lambert guided the New York Islanders for a season and a half, his only prior NHL head coaching experience. Lambert, 60, was associate coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs last season. The Kraken presumably had to wait until the Maple Leafs were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs to interview him.

1 week ago | wenatcheeworld.com | Kate Shefte

SEATTLE — The Kraken named Lane Lambert the third coach in franchise history on Thursday. Lambert guided the New York Islanders for a season and a half, his only prior NHL head coaching experience. Lambert, 60, was associate coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs last season. The Kraken presumably had to wait until the Maple Leafs were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs to interview him.

1 week ago | gazettextra.com | Kate Shefte

SEATTLE - The Kraken named Lane Lambert the third coach in franchise history on Thursday. Lambert guided the New York Islanders for a season and a half, his only prior NHL head coaching experience. Lambert, 60, was associate coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs last season. The Kraken presumably had to wait until the Maple Leafs were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs to interview him.