SCampo98
Registered User
As most people on here probably did, I mocked up the Golden Knights roster on TSN before the draft last night. In the end, I was pretty surprised as how good they could be while still staying within the cap and abiding by the expansion draft rules. Here is the team I picked, which abides by all of the rules set out. Players with an asterisk were chosen by the Golden Nights last night:
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Kruger (CHI)
**Marchessault (FLA)
Bailey (NYI)
Grabner (NYR)
**Neal (NSH)
**Perron (STL)
Anderson (CBJ)
Burmistrov (ARI)
Bennett (NJD)
Boucher (VAN)
**Leipsic (TOR)
Chiasson (DAL)
Leier (PHI)
Stempniak (CAR)
Grigorenko (COL)
Gaborik (LAK)
Defenceman
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Vatanen (ANA)
Dumba (MIN)
Enstrom (WPG)
**Methot (OTT)
Bogosian (BUF)
Oleksiak (DAL)
Ouellett (DET)
Nesterov (MTL)
Sustr (TBL)
Dillon (SJS)
Goalies
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**Fleury (PIT)
Grubauer (WSH)
Brossoit (EDM)
Subban (BOS)
IMHO, I think the trades with ANA to get Theodore an the trade with TBL to get Gusev were the only ones worth doing. I don't think any of the other trades, including where they got a 1st rounder this year, would have been worth making. If you substitute Vatanen for Theodore above, I still think Vegas would have one of the better top sixes in the league. I just don't get why Vegas picked the players they did (Pickard, Thorburn, Garrison, Berube, Engelland, Stoner, etc.)
If any of you guys did mock drafts, were your teams closer to the one I made or closer the the actual product Vegas revealed last night?
Forwards
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Kruger (CHI)
**Marchessault (FLA)
Bailey (NYI)
Grabner (NYR)
**Neal (NSH)
**Perron (STL)
Anderson (CBJ)
Burmistrov (ARI)
Bennett (NJD)
Boucher (VAN)
**Leipsic (TOR)
Chiasson (DAL)
Leier (PHI)
Stempniak (CAR)
Grigorenko (COL)
Gaborik (LAK)
Defenceman
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Vatanen (ANA)
Dumba (MIN)
Enstrom (WPG)
**Methot (OTT)
Bogosian (BUF)
Oleksiak (DAL)
Ouellett (DET)
Nesterov (MTL)
Sustr (TBL)
Dillon (SJS)
Goalies
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**Fleury (PIT)
Grubauer (WSH)
Brossoit (EDM)
Subban (BOS)
IMHO, I think the trades with ANA to get Theodore an the trade with TBL to get Gusev were the only ones worth doing. I don't think any of the other trades, including where they got a 1st rounder this year, would have been worth making. If you substitute Vatanen for Theodore above, I still think Vegas would have one of the better top sixes in the league. I just don't get why Vegas picked the players they did (Pickard, Thorburn, Garrison, Berube, Engelland, Stoner, etc.)
If any of you guys did mock drafts, were your teams closer to the one I made or closer the the actual product Vegas revealed last night?