News: Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft Thread
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RandV
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Is Bishop still capable of playing? I was wondering about the Dallas goalie situation primarily because there seems to be a heavy push from the Vancouver media to sell the idea of Seattle taking Holtby, which I think is nonsense. Looking at Bishop it seems he sat out the entire year with a knee injury, at 34 will he be able to come back from that?
Personally looking at the expansion I think Seattle's goaltending will come down to Bishop or Allen as the short term 1A and whoever Washington doesn't protect as the long term 1B.
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ManofSteel55
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Edmonton's protection list is pretty obvious at the moment, but trades are possible given our hole in net.
Forwards - McDavid, Draisaitl, Nugent-Hopkins, Pulujarvi, Yamamoto, Kassian, Archibald (this is the one question mark)
Defense - Nurse, Keith, Bear
Goalie - Jeff Skinner
Forwards - McDavid, Draisaitl, Nugent-Hopkins, Pulujarvi, Yamamoto, Kassian, Archibald (this is the one question mark)
Defense - Nurse, Keith, Bear
Goalie - Jeff Skinner
MakeCgyGreatAgain
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Stuart Skinner. Because Jeff Skinner in Edmonton would be Buffalo fans wet dreams.
VintageBure
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It’s actual complete bullshit the NHL is still allowing Vegas to be exempt from the expansion draft. The fact they’ve made the conference finals 3 out of 4 seasons of their existence and are still exempt is a bad look for the league imo.
MakeCgyGreatAgain
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It is but the expansion rules were put into place well before that. Seattle has been planned when Vegas was originally coming into the league. In fact the talks were that Seattle was going to come in the same year as Vegas. However Seattle did not have an ownership group that applied for expansion when the initial expansion work was done.
Anaheim4ever
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I hope Max Jones enjoys Seattle.
Maybe he can grow Kurt Cobain hair and have a jersey with knee holes like Kurt's jeans.
Maybe he can grow Kurt Cobain hair and have a jersey with knee holes like Kurt's jeans.
Hah! It wasn't hard at all to convince the other owners to unanimously take $1 million more each to give Vegas the full exemption. Blame your own greedy owner who wanted the extra bucks.
mouser
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I think it’s a safe bet Vegas would be happy to lose a player in the expansion draft in exchange for a $30m share of the Seattle franchise fee.
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All the analysts laugh at the organizations that gave up multiple assets instead of letting Vegas take just one player. They claim that teams have learned and won't make the same mistake this time.
But then the analysts will also say that whoever receives the best player in a trade wins the trade.
So for instance, take what Minnesota did. They protected Dumba by getting rid of Haula and Tuch. At the time, Dumba was by far the best player/asset in the trade. So was it dumb because they gave up more than one player? Or was it smart because they were able to keep the best player?
Get your crap straight analysts. You sound stupid.
But then the analysts will also say that whoever receives the best player in a trade wins the trade.
So for instance, take what Minnesota did. They protected Dumba by getting rid of Haula and Tuch. At the time, Dumba was by far the best player/asset in the trade. So was it dumb because they gave up more than one player? Or was it smart because they were able to keep the best player?
Get your crap straight analysts. You sound stupid.
Vegas is in cap hell and don't get free cap relief by being exempt. Now if they want seattle to help them, it's going to cost them assets.
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Nah, we've got some wiggle room and an extra goalie to deal with. This will be fun.
Anaheim4ever
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Given the lack of talent that appears to be getting exposed in the expansion draft they will certainly pick Eberle.
There is a thing called 'Salary Floor' and the Expansion team has to reach the salary floor
and if teams aren't making deals with Seattle then Ron Francis is forced to have to add salary somehow.
Donskoi/RNH/Arvidsson would have been a decent top line for Seattle, now they are looking at Eberle/Kerfoot/Zucker as their top line.
Ron Francis has overplayed his hand and his team is getting screwed with how teams keeping making deals between each other.
So will Seattle have any access to medical records or medical information? Because I think between now and the draft, a lot of teams will try to make noise about how injured their players, like Bishop or Weber, are in an attempt to prevent them from being taken. How true these claims are would be reflected in the medical records, so I wonder whether Seattle has any access to those.
Gil Gunderson
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As an Islanders fan I much rather we lose Eberle than Leddy, which means Francis probably feels the same. Only thing that works in Eberle's favor is he has 3 years on his deal compared to 1
My guess is many of Seattle's high priced picks might be made getting teams to give up a draft pick to take a higher priced player though, that and I can see them save some capspace for UFAs or even till UFA signing day where they might be able to get a decent player and a pick from a team looking to sign a better player but needing capspace.
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Has to do with they paid over $500 million to get a team.
Anaheim4ever
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Eberle makes too much sense to them to pick.
Atm i am thinking their best bet is a Eberle/Henrique/Zucker top line in Seattle.
A few weeks ago it looked like they'd have Donskoi/Nugent-Hopkins/Arvidsson top line but that has vanished after the most recent trade of Graves to NJ.
Even if Seattle signs Hamilton + Landeskog they would still be missing a decent center and Kerfoot is their 1C if they don't pick Henrique.
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