News: Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft Thread

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Price playing 4D chess. BC guy wants to get closer to home convinces bergevin nobody gonna pick him anyway; and kaboom!

Yeah, this is the REAL kicker. Prince playing in Seattle moves him closer to family, which, in the end, is the only thing that matters.
Add that the Habs are likely to regress this year...ya gotta think he's on the line with Ron Francis and polishing his Kraken-mobile as we speak.

 

[DaBolts]

What make you think any of the TB guys are available?

The Lightning HAVE to lose one player. If they were to trade Gourde for draft picks, for example, they would then lose Killorn or Palat to Seattle.

They have no reason to make such a trade, because then they're down two players instead of one.

Actually we do have a reason. Even losing just Gourde does not help us with the cap situation. Two have to go, sadly.

 

[vegarover]

An opportunity to put together a playoff-capable team is what they paid the big expansion fee for; whether they can pull it off remains to be seen.

Exactly. That expansion fee is getting split equally among the 3o other teams. (not Vegas obviously.)

 

[PromisedLand]

Yeah, this is the REAL kicker. Prince playing in Seattle moves him closer to family, which, in the end, is the only thing that matters.
Add that the Habs are likely to regress this year...ya gotta think he's on the line with Ron Francis and polishing his Kraken-mobile as we speak.

I think Price still has some solid years in him before he becomes a buyout candidate; I think him being closer to family now that he has kids and in the same time zone too lol might help.

This also gives habs cap room to make moves to improve their roster such that they don't regress much.

It might be a win-win scenario

 

[flyerslducks]

Man, feel like Seattle could have a better team than Vegas on paper after this draft.

They could on paper but I doubt it. For one, Seattle isn’t going to take on all of these big names that are unprotected. I doubt they take duchene or ryjo for example. Doubt they even take tarasenko when Dunn is there. Will be interesting to see if they do take one of Nashville’s centers though

 

[Number 57]

I just drafted a team on CapFriendly and the hardest thing to do is actually stay under the cap. You can easily get a solid top-9 of forwards and top-4 on D but it will cost you around $65M for that alone which seems like a lot. It's actually much harder than I thought. There are too many options and a lot of the players are overpaid.

For exemple, I can't see them taking Giordano, Johansen or Price. Their cap hit is simply too high and they would pass up on other good players that are better value for what they're paid.

Of course, I believe Seattle is allowed to go over the cap by a bit and they could retain and trade players after the draft.

But realistically, they'll only take about 5-6 overpaid players and at least 10 kids and/or minimum salary players

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Very good points. McPhee was a consensus a "stupid" GM before the Vegas job. Now he's considered a mastermind.

He was never a "stupid GM". He mostly did a ton of good for the Caps outside of Forsberg/Erat trade. Most of that cup winning Caps team consisted of players drafted or acquired by McPhee.

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

So what do you have as a club. Heres mine, without any deal

Voracek Duchene Tarasenko
Gourde Domi Donskoii
Tanev Mccaan Acciari
Appleton Donato Virtanen
Extra: Benson, Fischer

DeAngelo Zadorov
Bean Clague
Butcher Fleury

extra: Zboril, Aho, Borgen, Cholowski, Kylington

Price
Vanecek

Daccord
Kahkonen
Point

74 milions

Lol, I’d love to see DeAngelo in Seattle. the PR dept gotta earn their money!

 

[JT Kreider]

Seattle is going to easily finish 2nd in the Pacific

 

[DaBolts]

Seattle is going to easily finish 2nd in the Pacific

If they don't, Francis should be fired the day the season ends.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Very good points. McPhee was a consensus a "stupid" GM before the Vegas job. Now he's considered a mastermind.

FWIW, I think McPhee is an excellent talent scout and also sensed an opportunity to really take advantage of the expansion draft, but as a GM generally he wasn't so hot and indeed they let him go within two years. Dirty Harry Rule applies here: "A man has got to know his limitations."

 

[gstommylee]

seattle isn't taking DeAngelo...

 

[Mobiandi]

Genuine question, how were Nashville allowed to protect 5 defensemen?

 

[gstommylee]

Genuine question, how were Nashville allowed to protect 5 defensemen?

8 skaters -1 goalie allowed to protect more Dman.

 

[HoseEmDown]

What make you think any of the TB guys are available?

The Lightning HAVE to lose one player. If they were to trade Gourde for draft picks, for example, they would then lose Killorn or Palat to Seattle.

They have no reason to make such a trade, because then they're down two players instead of one.

They're available because Tampa needs to shed cap. So if Seattle takes a higher salary player then one additional player would need to be moved. So they'll shop them and see which one they get the best offer for. They're losing 2 of Gourde, Palat, Killorn and Johnson regardless of what Seattle does.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

I just drafted a team on CapFriendly and the hardest thing to do is actually stay under the cap. You can easily get a solid top-9 of forwards and top-4 on D but it will cost you around $65M for that alone which seems like a lot. It's actually much harder than I thought. There are too many options and a lot of the players are overpaid.

For exemple, I can't see them taking Giordano, Johansen or Price. Their cap hit is simply too high and they would pass up on other good players that are better value for what they're paid.

Of course, I believe Seattle is allowed to go over the cap by a bit and they could retain and trade players after the draft.

But realistically, they'll only take about 5-6 overpaid players and at least 10 kids and/or minimum salary players

It is going to help Seattle that Washington has no state income tax, which means that for all home games the players will pocket somewhere between roughly 10% more than if they played in most cities (California players, for instance, pay an additional 13.3% every time they play at home). So, if Seattle can use that to nudge contracts down 5% or 10% in the aggregate, that will help them out.

 

[boredmale]

8 skaters -1 goalie allowed to protect more Dman.

On a side note I think instead of 8-1, it should just be 9(ie give the option not to protect a goalie but another player)

 

[GordonGraham]

So now basically do we have to wait till wednesday night ?

And if they make a trade or sign a UFA will it be have to wait till wednesday night as well or will the so called insiders leak it

 

[Whitesnake]

And here I thought that losing DeMelo during the playoffs was INCREDIBLY important to the team...lol

 

[boredmale]

So now basically do we have to wait till wednesday night ?

And if they make a trade or sign a UFA will it be have to wait till wednesday night as well or will the so called insiders leak it

In theory somebody could announce it, but my guess is the NHL rather they have the 1 big reveal

 

[abo9]

I just drafted a team on CapFriendly and the hardest thing to do is actually stay under the cap. You can easily get a solid top-9 of forwards and top-4 on D but it will cost you around $65M for that alone which seems like a lot. It's actually much harder than I thought. There are too many options and a lot of the players are overpaid.

For exemple, I can't see them taking Giordano, Johansen or Price. Their cap hit is simply too high and they would pass up on other good players that are better value for what they're paid.

Of course, I believe Seattle is allowed to go over the cap by a bit and they could retain and trade players after the draft.

But realistically, they'll only take about 5-6 overpaid players and at least 10 kids and/or minimum salary players

Niederreiter - Gourde - Voracek
Zucker - McCann - Bailey
Jarnkrok - Gaudette - Appleton
Ritchie - Gambrell - Blackwell

Giordano - Larsson (sign)
Dunn (sign)- Jensen
Bowey - Fleury

Price
Kahkonen
Driedger

Extra:
F:Fischer. Lizotte, Greer
D: Harrington, MacDonald, Borgen, Cholowski
G: D'Accord

Which better value players would you get? Imo this is a competitive lineup, although it locks you out of UFA and there's a lot of guys that will need to be resigned fast...

 

[The Safe Play]

There's some slam dunk picks IMO for Seattle.

Gourde, Demelo, McCann, Dunn/Tarasenko, Giordano, Niederreter.

 

[Channelcat]

Can teams trade to get a player back after the ex draft?.....I can't recall.

 

[Quack Shot]

Can teams trade to get a player back after the ex draft?.....I can't recall.

No rule against it

 

[Nucks N Canes]

There's some slam dunk picks IMO for Seattle.

Gourde, Demelo, McCann, Dunn/Tarasenko, Giordano, Niederreter.

You take Bean there 10/10 times over Nino