Kraken sign Ryden Evers to three-year, entry-level contract
The Seattle Kraken have agreed to terms on a three-year, entry-level contract with undrafted forward prospect Ryden Evers, the club announced Sunday afternoon.
Evers, 20, has 31 goals and 69 points in 60 games with the WHL’s Penticton Vees this season. The 6’3″ center remained with the Vees during their transition from the BCHL to the WHL in the summer of 2025.
“We’re excited to have Ryden join our organization,” Kraken general manager Jason Botterill said in a statement on Sunday. “His development has continued to improve over the years, turning him into a responsible two-way center that brings size and skill to the group.”
Evers’s three-year, entry-level contract carries an average annual value of $1.075 million and will take effect with the start of the 2026-27 season.
Down for the Ryd 🚙💨 The #SeaKraken have signed @PentictonVees forward Ryden Evers to a three-year entry-level contract beginning in the 2026-27 season.
A product of the Burnaby Winter Club program in his B.C. hometown, Evers made his junior debut with the BCHL’s Vernon Vipers in the 2021-22 season. He emerged as a full-time BCHL forward over the following two seasons before being acquired by the Vees in 2024.
The Vees followed in the footsteps of the Wenatchee Wild by graduating from the BCHL to the WHL ahead of the 2025-26 season. Although the Vees acquired 22 players through a WHL expansion draft, they also chose to sign a handful of players from other leagues, and they opted to bring Evers, Nolan Stevenson, Louis Wehmann, Callum Stone, and Tristan Petersen with them from the BCHL.
The 2005-born Evers is in his final year of junior eligibility with the Vees. He’ll most likely join the AHL’s Coachela Valley Firebirds, Seattle’s top minor-league affiliate, starting next season.
The Kraken defeated the Vancouver Canucks by a 5-1 final score at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on Saturday night and currently sit in the last Western Conference playoff spot with a 28-22-9 record through 59 games this season.