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Hakstol is a college guy and I would be shocked if they rush him.
GDT: Expansion Draft: Seattle Kraken | Wednesday 21st July | 8PM ET
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Hakstol is a college guy and I would be shocked if they rush him.
man, what an awful job by ESPN on so many levels.
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History has shown that UFAs generally don't take a much lower bid to play on a contender. This would be a bit foolish by Seattle, but hypothetically if they decided to offer a combined $24,000,000 to sign Landeskog and Hamilton, that is where those players will end up as there are no contenders that have spare cap space to throw around in this flat-cap era.
I think the Krakens do have a six year plan - instead of a compiling a mediocre maybe playoff bound team with very little chemistry in 1st year, they look at the three entry draft depth coming up especially in 2022 and 2023 and say to themselves that if we are a bottom 5 team in those years we may have a very good shot at landing some of the young promising centers and wingers without having to trade assets for them and we can still be set up for a future elite team with ample cap space in 3 and 4 years to go after some of the big UFA name players such as Matthews and Barzal alike to play with these young emerging stars. Also keep in mind that with that much cap space they can also go after unsigned top college players, especially those have family ties on the West coast. Of course they may still try to land some of the UFA players available this summer and make some trades to acquire some RFA teams have trouble resigning. They certainly will not do any team any favors by taking expansive long contracts off them and end up hampering themselves down the road.
They have drafted quite a few hard to play against type of bottom liners to perhaps mentor potential future stars. On the other hand, many of the bottom 6 players they pick up are fan favorite, some with plenty of grit/edge and real good at PK, perhaps trying to flip some of them at trade deadlines to get even more picks 2022 and 2023 1st or 2nd round picks. The only pick I wonder why they passed on is Bean as they could use some of his offensive talents.
They do have a pretty big defense core with only one of the defender vet past his prime as most contending team builds from net and defense out and then add a couple of offensive talents one year at a time. They also have a pretty physical team upfront now that can be tough to play against.
If 2022 and 2023 are both average or bad draft years, then I think they would select players in this draft quite differently.
They have drafted quite a few hard to play against type of bottom liners to perhaps mentor potential future stars. On the other hand, many of the bottom 6 players they pick up are fan favorite, some with plenty of grit/edge and real good at PK, perhaps trying to flip some of them at trade deadlines to get even more picks 2022 and 2023 1st or 2nd round picks. The only pick I wonder why they passed on is Bean as they could use some of his offensive talents.
They do have a pretty big defense core with only one of the defender vet past his prime as most contending team builds from net and defense out and then add a couple of offensive talents one year at a time. They also have a pretty physical team upfront now that can be tough to play against.
If 2022 and 2023 are both average or bad draft years, then I think they would select players in this draft quite differently.
The typical third-grade class as a project could have done a much better job.
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