Speculation: Roster Building Thread DCLXXX: Viva Las Vegas!

[GregSirico]

lol they need them to get to Cap floor for 3-5 years until they have a real NHL team

We should help them and give them Staal

 

[Dr. Ogrodnick]

Surely with Lindberg gone, the odds that Stepan goes become lower.

Our centre depth would be gutted.

Unless the plan is to get a young center with a high ceiling back as one of the main pieces and address the defense with the new found cap room.

 

[Broadway Brad]

It kills me thinking about what we would've had to give up to get Vegas to take Staal. I wish it happened so bad.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Notice how everyone is trading 2019 picks, instead of 2018. Smart.

VGK tanking for the Young GOAT.

Their team looks awful.

Gusev-Shipachyov-Neal
Leipsic-Marchessault-Tuch
Eakin-Lindberg-Smith
Bellemare-Haula-Karlsson
Perron

Methot-Miller
McNabb-TVR
Schmidt-Theodore
Schlemko

Fleury
Pickard
Berube

 

[DanielBrassard]

I'm not so sure about that Stepan to Vegas idea anymore. Not much interest in their players.

 

[TheBloodyNine]

Unless the plan is to get a young center with a high ceiling back as one of the main pieces and address the defense with the new found cap room.

Definitely. I think if he's traded a prospect or close to NHL Ready center is coming back.

 

[Boruto]

Does Brady have any schedule A bonuses?

 

[TheBloodyNine]

I'm not so sure about that Stepan to Vegas idea anymore. Not much interest in their players.

Yeah, other than draft picks and Theodore they don't have much of substance

 

[Ghost of jas]

Surely with Lindberg gone, the odds that Stepan goes become lower.

Our centre depth would be gutted.

If that was the case, don't you think Gorton would have made a deal to protect Lindberg?

 

[Boruto]

or you could just do the unthinkable thing here and somehow replace a 4C and carry on with all business Stepan ordinarily.

 

[Irishguy42]

or you could just do the unthinkable thing here and somehow replace a 4C and carry on with all business Stepan ordinarily.

Yeah...I'm not seeing how losing Lindberg even makes a difference with trading Stepan.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

Ducks and Wild somehow make out really well.

I mean, they paid a price but the assets they kept were worth far more on the open market IMO.

 

[Ghost of jas]

Yeah...I'm not seeing how losing Lindberg even makes a difference with trading Stepan.

It doesn't.

 

[mike14]

Vegas with 3 picks in the top 15 (6,13,15). Do people think they'll try and trade into the top 3, or not worth it?

 

[Luger]

The Rangers are stronger as a result of the expansion draft. They aren't playing against last year's Rangers that had Lindberg, they are playing against teams that lost much better players. A 4C is easy to replace.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

IDK, GMGM seems to be stocking up on future assets. Doesn't appear to be concerned with this year. Could change, I suppose, but doesn't seem likely.

He's building a cheap tank roster and buying himself as long of a leash as possible.

Kind of funny that the NHL's plan to have a better expansion team backfired. Good luck selling tickets in Vegas. New money pit for the owners to claim next lockout.

 

[Boris Zubov]

Vegas with 3 picks in the top 15 (6,13,15). Do people think they'll try and trade into the top 3, or not worth it?

No. They need to stockpile prospects.

 

[NYRFAN218]

He's building a cheap tank roster and buying himself as long of a leash as possible.

Kind of funny that the NHL's plan to have a better expansion team backfired. Good luck selling tickets in Vegas. New money pit for the owners to claim next lockout.

They'll be fine this year and possibly year 2 or 3 due to the novelty factor. I think their plan is to have a good/great team with all the assets they're acquiring for when that novelty factor wears off.

 

[Ghost of jas]

Vegas with 3 picks in the top 15 (6,13,15). Do people think they'll try and trade into the top 3, or not worth it?

There was a rumor about VGK trading up to 2OA.

 

[NYR94]

Vegas is currently $875,000 below the salary cap.

 

[Vinny DeAngelo]

Vegas with 3 picks in the top 15 (6,13,15). Do people think they'll try and trade into the top 3, or not worth it?

i think this draft has 2 A+ players. but Vegas can get 3 A- players with those picks
collect A- guys when you have no players

 

[Vinny DeAngelo]

Vegas is currently $875,000 below the salary cap.

We have a Marc Staal that can solve that

 

[Thirty One]

Vegas is currently $875,000 below the salary cap.

With a 31 man roster

 

[Boruto]

Vegas got 2017 1st, 2019 2nd, William Karlsson to take on Clarkson. It likely would have cost our 21st this year and a 2nd round pick in 2019, one of Lindberg, Fast or Raanta to make it work. A part of it was Vegas did stay away from players CBJ wanted to keep so we'd likely be able to choose which roster player to send them but Staal's $5.7 for 4 more years with full NMC is worse than Clarkson's 3 years at $5.25.

Either Gorton knew the asking price and wasn't going to consider it or he didn't consider it because he believes in Staal, still.

 

[aufheben]

Damn that roster is going to be all kinds of terrible. I can't wait, I've never seen a fresh expansion team before.