Granato was named the permanent head coach on June 29. Assistant coach Granato was named interim head coach. Krueger totaled a 36вЂ“49вЂ“12 record during his short tenure, and failed to lead the team to the playoffs in his lone complete season. Krueger was fired on March 17, 2021, after parts of two seasons with Buffalo, with the team suffering a 6вЂ“18вЂ“4 start and a 12-game losing streak. On July 1, Tourigny was named head coach. Tocchet coached the Coyotes for four seasons, compiling a 125вЂ“131вЂ“34 record, with one playoff appearance in 2020. On May 9, 2021, Tocchet and the Coyotes mutually agreed to part ways at the end of Tocchet's contract, one day after the team's final game of the 2020вЂ“21 season. Vegas: Credit One Bank (home), P3 Health Partners (away) Д¬oaching changes Coaching changes.Louis: Stifel (home), Enterprise Rent-A-Car (away) Pittsburgh: Bold Penguin Insurance (home), PPG Industries (away).New York Rangers: Benjamin Moore Paints.New York Islanders: Northwell Health (home), UBS (away).New Jersey: Prudential Financial (home), Razu (away).Nashville: Vanderbilt Health (home), Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp.Montreal: Bell Canada (home), CIBC (away).Dallas: Energy Transfer (home), 7-Eleven (away).Columbus: Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW) (home), iDesign (away).

While the Edmonton and Philadelphia teams have not announced a logo, the remaining teams have the following helmet sponsors for this season: Sponsorships ДЄs in the previous season, NHL teams were allowed to display sponsor logos ( helmet entitlement partner) on their helmets.

For the second consecutive year the draft was conducted in a remote format due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hosted from the NHL Network studios in Secaucus, New Jersey. The 2021 NHL Entry Draft was held July 23вЂ“24, 2021, with Owen Power being selected first overall by the Buffalo Sabres. If the cross-border travel restrictions had continued for another year, the league would have been forced to use a temporary alignment with an all-Canadian division for a second year. As planned before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seattle Kraken were placed in the Pacific Division and the Arizona Coyotes were moved to the Central Division. The league returned to the previous alignment with Eastern and Western conferences. The 2021 NHL Expansion Draft was held on July 21, 2021, to fill out the Kraken roster.

On April 30, 2021, the team was permitted to begin making trades and signing players after sending its final expansion payment to the league. The team was named the Seattle Kraken on July 23, 2020. On December 4, 2018, the NHL confirmed that it had granted an expansion franchise in the city of Seattle.

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