GDT: Expansion Draft: Seattle Kraken | Wednesday 21st July | 8PM ET

[JeffreyLFC]

We basically all did better in our expansion mock draft than Francis did.

 

[nexttothemoon]

Capfriendly shows that the Kraken have ~$29 million in cap space though so there's plenty of money left for a stab at Eichel/Landeskog etc.

 

[Kimota]

I think a collective hivemind here on the HFBoards could have done just as well with a mock draft.

I did one under the cap and we would destroy Francis' team. lol Took me 5 minutes.

 

[rocketdan9]

Probably take Beniers on Friday. Throw him right into the wolves .... so shore up another C for the lineup

 

[Danrs112]

Capfriendly shows that the Kraken have ~$29 in cap space though so there's plenty of money left for a stab at Eichel/Landeskog etc.

Maybe Landeskog since UFA....but I'm not sure they enough to trade for Eichel

 

[GetFocht]

Capfriendly shows that the Kraken have ~$29 million in cap space though so there's plenty of money left for a stab at Eichel/Landeskog etc.

They had an exclusive period to negotiate with UFAs, I highly doubt Eichel or Landeskog would want to go on a bottom feeding team

Especially Eichel after playing on a rebuilding team in his entire career.

 

[DryIslandBartender]

Kraken expansion draft war room:

 

[benedictTavares]

They had an exclusive period to negotiate with UFAs, I highly doubt Eichel or Landeskog would want to go on a bottom feeding team

Especially Eichel after playing on a rebuilding team in his entire career.

Agreed. Eichel had so much fun in Buffalo that he is probably dying to move to an expansion team.......

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

Maybe Landeskog since UFA....but I'm not sure they enough to trade for Eichel

Landeskog wouldn't sign with them. Aside from 2OA, the Kraken absolutely do not have any assets that would mildly entice Buffalo to get Eichel. They can basically get whatever C that 2OA would buy, or they could draft Beniers and ruin his development by throwing him in.

 

[Gotaf7]

Welp, might as well start a Tank thread on the Kraken page. What a shit roster.

 

[GetFocht]

McPhee's expansion draft was a master class than this sad sack of a team. It's like the bargain bin at Winners.

 

[T REX]

No side deals?

 

[CpatainCanuck]

Who were the best players not picked by the Kraken? I didn't follow the protected lists very closely.

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

Yikes Francis really blew it.

 

[nexttothemoon]

They had an exclusive period to negotiate with UFAs, I highly doubt Eichel or Landeskog would want to go on a bottom feeding team

Especially Eichel after playing on a rebuilding team in his entire career.

Well they'd have to work out a trade for Eichel so that one is much more speculative... but I think if they wanted to drop $8.5 million x 7 years on Landeskog (rumor is he's looking for ~$60 million)... you'd have to think he'd have to at least consider it pretty hard.

 

[islesfan186]

Who were the best players not picked by the Kraken? I didn't follow the protected lists very closely.

Subban and Price for starters. Instead they went with Bastian and Cale Fluery

 

[rocketdan9]

Kraken expansion draft war room:

Owner = I paid a 650m expansion fee

Go cheap Ronny

Not every expansion team is Vegas. Vegas owner probably recouped that fee back in no time with the casinos

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

Who were the best players not picked by the Kraken? I didn't follow the protected lists very closely.

you could literally build a playoff team with the players not selected. Tarasenko, Johansen, Voracek, Price, Domi, Drouin, etc..

 

[GetFocht]

you could literally build a playoff team with the players not selected. Tarasenko, Johansen, Voracek, Price, Domi, Drouin, etc..

Now that's a team that would actually scare me.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

Who were the best players not picked by the Kraken? I didn't follow the protected lists very closely.

Bean from Carolina
Zadorov from Chicago
Domi/Harrington from Columbus
Stetcher from Detroit
Lemieux/Grundstrom/Clague from LA
Duchene/Johansen from Nashville
Tarasenko from St Louis

There are more, I'm sure there will be lots of articles outlining the failures tonight.

 

[ScaredStreit]

Capfriendly shows that the Kraken have ~$29 million in cap space though so there's plenty of money left for a stab at Eichel/Landeskog etc.

Why would Eichel or Landeskog go to Seattle when they have better options?

 

[M88K]

Why would Eichel or Landeskog go to Seattle when they have better options?

Money the same reason players largely go anywhere

 

[PuckNorris]

I'm surprised they didn't take a chance on Tarasenko. It's low risk high reward. A lot of the players they took have limited upside.

 

[nexttothemoon]

Choosing Quenneville over Zadorov with the Chicago pick is odd... you'd have to think there was some sort of handshake deal there for them to take Quenneville.

They would be able to instantly flip Zadorov for a decent pick at the very worst even if they never keep him on the roster... for Quenneville I don't know if they'd even get a 6th round pick.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Mighty Ducks?!

Not the adjective I’d have given them, but whatever.