News Article: Leafs expansion draft scenario (from the hockey news)!

[Wafflewhipper]

Not sure who will agree with the authors protected list but it is worth some discussion. Here is the link to read anyway. Expansion Plan: Projecting the Toronto Maple Leafs’ protection list for the 2021 expansion draft - TheHockeyNews

Just adding draft rules here for everyone! Seattle 2021 NHL Expansion Draft rules same as Golden Knights followed

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[zeke]

Dubas would likely trade a guy like Kerfoot or Johnsson or kappy or Moore or Bracco before exposing him.

 

[Boutette]

Suggesting Bracco to be on the protected list certainly would have a few people here going a little nuts.

For instance, see Kiwi below.

Of course, its two whole years before the draft, and say Bracco's become a 60 pt. playmaker on the squad wit his elite passing skills at the same cap hit or less than Kerfoot. Then yeah, you probably protect him over a 40pt playmaking center who might be replaceable by say, Engvall or Brooks (both of whom might have major breakout seasons this year and be ready to replace him) by then at again, a lower cap hit.

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Dubas would likely trade a guy like Kerfoot or Johnsson or kappy or Moore or Bracco before exposing him.

I don’t get why Bracco is on this list actually. 1st and 2nd year players and prospects are exempt right????

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Suggesting Bracco to be on the protected list certainly would have a few people here going a little nuts.

Its odd the author had Bracco there. I figured worth discussion expansion regardless )

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Dubas would likely trade a guy like Kerfoot or Johnsson or kappy or Moore or Bracco before exposing him.

Personally i would trade Johnsson before Kappy. Kerfoot is going to surprise posters with his play i believe. I don’t think most realize the quality of player he is. He’s pretty all round good actually.

 

[zeke]

I don’t get why Bracco is on this list actually. 1st and 2nd year players and prospects are exempt right????

Nah AHL seasons count as pro seasons as long as you're 20+ years old, so this'll be Bracco' s 3rd pro year and he'll have 4 by the draft.

 

[zeke]

Personally i would trade Johnsson before Kappy. Kerfoot is going to surprise posters with his play i believe. I don’t think most realize the quality of player he is. He’s pretty all round good actually.

Yeah we'll see what makes the most sense. The good news is that all of them will be very tradeable, and for good returns.

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Nah AHL seasons count as pro seasons as long as you're 20+ years old, so this'll be Bracco' s 3rd pro year and he'll have 4 by the draft.

I inserted the expansion draft rules link in my initial post now. It say first and second year Nhl players are exempt.

 

[Buds17]

Seems like a stretch to protect Bracco over Kerfoot at the moment considering the former lacks the NHL experience of the latter. With Marner, Nylander, Johnsson and Kapanen all as expansion protected wingers, I'd also wonder if Bracco sits high enough on the team's depth chart. Mind you, there could be cap considerations by then, potentially making a $3.5 M third line centre an unaffordable luxury for the team. Of course, I'd hope the Leafs would still be contending by then, so a side deal could very well be worked out where a player is left "unprotected" to essentially fill expansion draft requirements only.

 

[Kiwi]

Why the **** would we protect Bracco and expose Kerfoot our reasonably priced 3rd line center?

Some people need to watch the bloody Marlies for awhile before they start writing protection lists because if the 7 forwards protected aren't Tavares, Matthews, Nylander, Marner, Johnsson, Kerfoot, Kapanen [MOD]

 

[gabeliscious]

Why the **** would we protect Bracco and expose Kerfoot our reasonably priced 3rd line center?

Some people need to watch the bloody Marlies for awhile before they start writing protection lists because if the 7 forwards protected aren't Tavares, Matthews, Nylander, Marner, Johnsson, Kerfoot, Kapanen [MOD]

I would be surprised if hyman wasnt on the list over kap or johnsson

 

[18leafsfan18]

I would be surprised if hyman wasnt on the list over kap or johnsson

Might depend on Hyman's cap hit (he will have a new contract by the expansion draft) and Kap and Johnson's play the next 2 seasons

 

[Mickey Marner]

Way too early. Several of those players won't be Leafs in two/three years.

 

[LeafsOHLRangers98]

Might depend on Hyman's cap hit (he will have a new contract by the expansion draft) and Kap and Johnson's play the next 2 seasons

We cannot afford to pay Hyman when his deal is up. Find another player that does what he does at an ELC cap hit by then.

We cannot afford Abdelkader/Helm type deals no matter how official Babcocks adoption papers are.

 

[18leafsfan18]

We cannot afford to pay Hyman when his deal is up. Find another player that does what he does at an ELC cap hit by then.

We cannot afford Abdelkader/Helm type deals no matter how official Babcocks adoption papers are.

Noone has any clue how much he will want in 2 years or how much the cap will raise by then.

A bit early to make such a claim.

 

[Sypher04]

I would be surprised if hyman wasnt on the list over kap or johnsson

Pretty sure Hyman will be a UFA. As will Andersen.

 

[LeafsOHLRangers98]

Noone has any clue how much he will want in 2 years or how much the cap will raise by then.

A bit early to make such a claim.

Unless he takes $4M or less on a short term 2-3 year deal we likely have to move on. Rielly will need a new deal, Liljegren and Sandin hopefully develop into top 4 D and we have to pay them, and then depending if Woll or Scott work out we'll have to pay a goalie. Not really any room for a lunchbox player making $5M+

 

[ACC1224]

Isn't the Expansion Draft a few years away?

 

[deletethis]

We'll see whether Bracco performs at the NHL level first before carving this one in stone. Also I'm not about to assume that Kerfoot can't out-perform Johnsson and/or Kapanen.

I like Muzzin but I don't think he stays past this season. That 3rd defenseman is probably someone else. I think there will be another (right sider) veteran defender who Dubas will invest longer term into. Right siders are harder to develop. Dubas crunches the numbers. He knows that fully realized right side defensemen are higher value commodities.

 

[deletethis]

I would be surprised if hyman wasnt on the list over kap or johnsson

You'd think that leaving a modest UFA unsigned before the expansion draft then talking after is how most of these players will be handled by most organizations.

 

[18leafsfan18]

Unless he takes $4M or less on a short term 2-3 year deal we likely have to move on. Rielly will need a new deal, Liljegren and Sandin hopefully develop into top 4 D and we have to pay them, and then depending if Woll or Scott work out we'll have to pay a goalie. Not really any room for a lunchbox player making $5M+

If all of your scenarios work out exactly how your are saying, Yes, Leafs may need to move on.

There is a ton that can happen over 2 season though.

Just look at how the team changed just from 2 years ago to today.

 

[deletethis]

I'm thinking this blogger thinks he has done a clever troll about the Kadri trade with this list.

 

[zeke]

I'm thinking this blogger thinks he has done a clever troll about the Kadri trade with this list.

 

[notDatsyuk]

Dubas would likely trade a guy like Kerfoot or Johnsson or kappy or Moore or Bracco before exposing him.

Trading will be interesting for the next couple of years because of this draft. A team that might normally be willing to trade (for example) a high pick for Johnsson, might not if they would then be in a position to have to protect or possibly lose him.