Confirmed with Link: Hall (50% retained) and Speers to Arizona for 1st, conditional pick, Bahl, Merkley and Schnarr

[TrufleShufle]

Listen your an idiot and wrong I am right and have NEVER been wrong!

This is nonsense, I've never been wrong, I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

 

[My3Sons]

Well this is what happens, someone asked a question, who would you protect, Kukk or Bastian. Being Hfboards, you can't just choose one and be bothered by losing the other, you need to choose one and then paint yourself into a corner by downplaying the other player as much as possible to defend your choice. It's just easier to say why someone else's choice is wrong rather than why yours is right.

Id be surprised if the battle was between Kuokkanen and Bastian. I think it’s more likely between Bastian and McLeod.

 

[TrufleShufle]

Id be surprised if the battle was between Kuokkanen and Bastian. I think it’s more likely between Bastian and McLeod.

Yeah, way too many names thrown around, I really have no idea what it's going to come down to and who we will need to argue over.

I forget, does every team put there list out publicly a certain period of time before hand?

 

[My3Sons]

Yeah, way too many names thrown around, I really have no idea what it's going to come down to and who we will need to argue over.

I forget, does every team put there list out publicly a certain period of time before hand?

I can’t recall when lists were made public if at all.

 

[TheDuke93]

Id be surprised if the battle was between Kuokkanen and Bastian. I think it’s more likely between Bastian and McLeod.

I don't think there is a battle at all. Fitz went and got Kuokkanen and he has played well and put up good points. McLeod is a center who has missed 0 time this season and is winning 53% of his faceoffs this year.

 

[TheDuke93]

I can’t recall when lists were made public if at all.

They were a week or so in advance IIRC.

 

[My3Sons]

I don't think there is a battle at all. Fitz went and got Kuokkanen and he has played well and put up good points. McLeod is a center who has missed 0 time this season and is winning 53% of his faceoffs this year.

Last game Bastian won 100% of his faceoffs.

 

[TheDuke93]

Last game Bastian won 100% of his faceoffs.

Your a god damn troll lol.

 

[TrufleShufle]

I can’t recall when lists were made public if at all.

Googled, so July 17th at 2pm this year the teams need to have their lists in with the draft July 21st, and all I can find is that for the Vegas draft they did have all the lists public. Nothing concrete for this year that I can find, but I can't imagine they'd change it.

 

[Guttersniped]

Well this is what happens, someone asked a question, who would you protect, Kukk or Bastian. Being Hfboards, you can't just choose one and be bothered by losing the other, you need to choose one and then paint yourself into a corner by downplaying the other player as much as possible to defend your choice. It's just easier to say why someone else's choice is wrong rather than why yours is right.

I’m bracing for more shocking/depressing turns: Johnsson being one of the protected forwards etc is when I’m going to be a little testy. I’m pretty resigned to Bastian or McLeod going, Bastian seems more likely to be exposed.

But that’s what happens in expansion drafts. I would have been livid if I was a fan of a team that did weird costly side deals with Vegas to protect players who weren’t worth it. (And Columbus and Anaheim 4D chessed themselves into giving up assets so Vegas took a player better than the ones they were protecting.)

I almost never make hard predictions in these situations, I don’t think Subban works for Seattle capwise at all and I’m very adamant about that one point. I look forward to that turning into the Islanders aren’t Trading for Zajac II: Electric Boogaloo. (They didn’t need a center! They still need a LW! And they traded for Braydon Corburn’s corpse and pretended it’s defensive depth! How could I predict that!)

 

[billingtons ghost]

I whole heartedly disagree that Subban has been worse then either of Kulikov or Murray. His contract has literally no impact on how he should be viewed as far as performance. He has been our 3rd best defensemen all year and one of our better puck movers. Losing him would be much more of a disaster then losing a Murray imo. I really don't think Murray or Kulikov propped anyone up.

We will agree to disagree. While he's been better this year than last, he's been pretty terrible.