CupInSIX
My cap runneth over
Why did the Kraken use their expansion picks on UFAs such as Driedger, Larsson, Oleksiak??
If you had an agreement on an extension anyway, and you trust the players to not break their word, you could've used those picks on other players (e.g. Acciari, Vatrano, Gudas, Khaira, Hanley, perhaps take a chance on Bishop). Yes I know those are hardly star name, but that's what they said about Vegas... You never know.
And then you sign those other guys on the 28th if you trust them that they're committed to signing with your franchise
They did that with Schwartz, at least.
Of course, a lot of people would argue that flipping Tarasenko at 50% would have been the better move. Certainly Dillon would have been pretty valuable with 1m retained.