Seattle Kraken Trivia
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49 free Seattle Kraken trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Seattle Kraken paid $650 million to become the NHL's 32nd team, retired the number 32 before their first home game, and beat the defending champions in their first playoff series. This Kraken trivia quiz covers the whole short history and the long one before it: the 1917 Metropolitans, the first American team to win the Stanley Cup, the Coyotes relocation that nearly happened, Ron Francis and the expansion draft at Gas Works Park, Matty Beniers' Calder Trophy, the seven-game upset of Colorado, Joey Daccord's Winter Classic shutout and the coaching carousel from Hakstol to Lambert. There are questions on Climate Pledge Arena and its preserved 1962 roof, the ferry-horn goal horn, 'Lithium', the plush salmon toss, Buoy the sea troll, Davy Jones the team dog, the Slap Shot organist, the first all-Black broadcast duo, Jessica Campbell's hiring, Macklemore and Marshawn Lynch as owners, and the Coachella Valley Firebirds. Easy questions for new fans sit beside genuinely hard ones. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01Which team won the Kraken's first home game?
Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver Canucks won 4-2 on October 23, 2021, scoring three times in the third period after Seattle had led 2-1, and spoiled the first night in the rebuilt arena.
Q 02Whose expansion fee was $150 million below the Kraken's?
Vegas Golden Knights
Vegas Golden Knights paid $500 million to join in 2017; Seattle's price was $650 million, and Vegas was the one club exempt from the 2021 expansion draft that stocked the Kraken.
Q 03Which PCHA club became the first U.S.-based team to win the Stanley Cup, in 1917?
Metropolitans
The Metropolitans, Seattle's PCHA team, lost the opener 8-4 to the Montreal Canadiens, then won the next three games by a combined 19-3 to take the Cup.
Q 04Why was the 1919 Stanley Cup Final in Seattle never finished?
The Spanish flu pandemic
The Spanish flu pandemic put several Montreal players in hospital hours before the deciding game, with the series level at 2-2-1; defenceman Joe Hall died days later.
Q 05Which franchise was lined up to move to Seattle in 2013 before Glendale's council voted 4-3 to keep it?
Phoenix Coyotes
Phoenix Coyotes had been owned by the NHL since a 2009 bankruptcy, and the league planned to move them, most likely to Seattle, if no Glendale lease was agreed by July 2013.
Q 06Which two men fronted the ownership group when the NHL considered Seattle's application in 2017?
David Bonderman and Jerry Bruckheimer
David Bonderman and Jerry Bruckheimer, a private-equity chief and a Hollywood producer, led the bid; the NHL's governors approved it unanimously on December 4, 2018.
Q 07Which Hall of Famer was hired in 2019 as the Kraken's first general manager?
Ron Francis
Ron Francis had been Carolina's general manager until 2018; hired two years before Seattle's first game, he said he wanted speed, character and competitiveness.
Q 08Where in Seattle did the Kraken reveal their picks in the 2021 expansion draft?
Gas Works Park
Gas Works Park, on the north shore of Lake Union, hosted the show; Adam Larsson, Jamie Oleksiak and Chris Driedger had already agreed deals and counted as their old teams' picks.
Q 09Which prospect, long tipped to go first in the 2022 NHL draft, slid to the Kraken at fourth overall?
Shane Wright
Shane Wright watched Juraj Slafkovsky, Simon Nemec and Logan Cooley go ahead of him in Montreal, then said he would play with a chip on his shoulder.
Q 10Who was the Kraken's first head coach?
Dave Hakstol
Dave Hakstol took Seattle from last place in its division to 100 points and a Jack Adams Award nomination in his second season, then was fired a year later.
Q 11Who was named the Kraken's inaugural captain in October 2021?
Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano, Calgary's captain until Seattle took him in the expansion draft, wore the 'C' for just over five months before he was traded to Toronto in March 2022.
Q 12Who scored the first goal in Kraken history, in a 4-3 loss at Vegas?
Ryan Donato
Ryan Donato scored on a rebound with Seattle 3-0 down; the Kraken fought back to 3-3 before Vegas scored the winner 35 seconds after the tying goal.
Q 13The Kraken retired No. 32 before their home opener to honour being the 32nd team and what else?
32,000 first-day ticket deposits
Q 21Who took over as Kraken GM in 2025 when the original GM became president of hockey operations?
Jason Botterill
Jason Botterill was fired as Buffalo's general manager in 2020, joined Seattle's front office in 2021 and got a second chance at the top job on April 22, 2025.
Q 22Which company bought KeyArena's naming rights in 2020, renaming it for a climate pledge?
Amazon
Amazon bought the rights but kept its own name off the building, naming it after its 2019 Climate Pledge to reach net-zero carbon by 2040.
Q 23Climate Pledge Arena was built for which 1962 event?
The World's Fair
The World's Fair of 1962, the Century 21 Exposition, also gave Seattle the Space Needle and the Monorail; the fair's pavilion was turned into a sports arena afterwards.
32,000 first-day ticket deposits were the fans' doing, so CEO Tod Leiweke told the crowd 'You did it' and raised their number before the first home game was played.
Q 14Which goalie recorded the Kraken's first shutout, against the Islanders in February 2022?
Philipp Grubauer
Philipp Grubauer, signed as a free agent the previous summer, stopped all 19 Islanders shots and kept the game scoreless until Seattle scored three times in the third period.
Q 15Who led the Kraken in scoring in 2021-22?
Jared McCann
Jared McCann arrived by a side door: Toronto traded for him four days before the expansion draft, then lost him to Seattle, where he scored 27 goals.
Q 16Which NHL first did the Kraken achieve in January 2023?
Winning all seven games of a seven-game trip
Winning all seven games of a seven-game trip had never been done; the run included a 3-0 shutout that handed Boston its first regulation home loss of the season.
Q 17Whom did the Kraken upset in seven games in their first playoff series in 2023?
Colorado Avalanche
Colorado Avalanche were the reigning champions; Oliver Bjorkstrand scored both goals in a 2-1 Game 7 win in Denver, the first such upset by an expansion team in its first series.
Q 18Which team ended the Kraken's 2023 run in a seven-game second round?
Dallas Stars
Dallas Stars won Game 7 by 2-1 at home, two days after Seattle had forced the decider with a 6-3 win at Climate Pledge Arena.
Q 19Which goalie posted the first shutout in Winter Classic history as the Kraken beat Vegas 3-0 in 2024?
Joey Daccord
Joey Daccord made 35 saves at T-Mobile Park; he had been the starter for only three weeks, since an injury to the team's No. 1 goalie.
Q 20Jessica Campbell, hired by the Kraken in July 2024, became the first woman to hold which NHL job?
Assistant coach
Assistant coach: Campbell followed Dan Bylsma up from the Kraken's AHL team, where she had been his assistant; Arizona had made Dawn Braid a full-time skating coach in 2016.
Q 24Which NBA team called the building that is now Climate Pledge Arena home before leaving Seattle in 2008?
SuperSonics
The SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder, but the 2008 settlement with the city kept the Sonics' colours in Seattle for a future team.
Q 25Which British band played the Seattle Center Coliseum, now Climate Pledge Arena, in 1964 and 1966?
The Beatles
The Beatles played the Coliseum on August 21, 1964, and returned for two shows on August 25, 1966; after the 1964 concert they waited an hour, then slipped away in the back of an ambulance.
Q 26Where was the Kraken's practice facility, the Kraken Community Iceplex, built?
The former Northgate Mall
The former Northgate Mall was being rebuilt as a mixed-use district, and the $80 million, three-rink Iceplex opened there in September 2021 with public skating.
Q 27The '3-Rink Rush' preseason took the Kraken to Spokane, Everett and which city, home of the WHL's Seattle Thunderbirds?
Kent
Kent's accesso ShoWare Center hosted the last of three 'home' games because Climate Pledge Arena was still being rebuilt; Calgary won it 4-1.
Q 28The Kraken's goal horn came from what?
A ferry boat
A ferry boat: the horn was salvaged from the MV Hyak, a Washington State ferry that entered service in 1967 and was retired in 2019.
Q 29Which Nirvana song became the Kraken's first goal song?
Lithium
Lithium was picked because the Kraken wanted a goal song with Seattle roots, a nod to Nirvana's place in the city's grunge scene.
Q 30What do the three stars throw into the crowd after Kraken home wins?
Plush salmon
Plush salmon replaced the usual pucks and sticks from the first home win in October 2021, a nod to the fish-tossing mongers of Pike Place Market.