Shane Wright is headed to Palm Desert, Calif., to make his American Hockey League debut as he was re-assigned on a conditioning loan by the Seattle Kraken.
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Wright has been a healthy scratch in the last five games, which led to him being sent down to the Coachella Valley Firebirds. This will open up five potential AHL games for Wright — two against Calgary, one against San Diego and two against Henderson during the two-week loan.
“He comes back to Seattle on Dec. 4, and then if they’re going to send him to the World Junior Hockey Championships, there is one game in between the end of the conditioning stint and the World Junior camp, and that game is against the Montreal Canadiens — and you’re gonna want to know that Shane Wright will want to play very much against the Canadiens,” Jeff Marek reported on Hockey Night in Canada during Saturday’s 32 Thoughts segment.
Wright was touted to be the first-overall pick in the lead-up to the 2021 draft — a pick held by the Canadiens. Montreal passed on Wright, and the forward wound up falling to fourth, where he was scooped up by the Kraken.
So, his next stop is California. The question after that is whether the 18-year-old will play for Canada’s World Junior team next month.
“I talked to someone from the World Junior squad today and as of right now, Seattle has not indicated at all whether they will send him or make him available for the world juniors,” Marek said.
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