News: Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft Thread

[LokiDog]

Landeskog* - Domi - Tarasenko
Gourde - McCann - Appleton
Johnsson - Gaudette - Virtanen
Tanev - Sissons - Fischer
Giordano - Larsson*
Soucy - Gostisbere
Bean - Miller
Dreidger*
Vanacek


22M cap space to sign Landeskog (9M) Larsson (4.5M) and Dreidger (4M) and that’s with 8 extras drafted to get to 30. Bellows, Clague, Gauthier, Gambrell, etc.

 

[CupInSIX]

No rule against it

The league will review it if it is considered circumvention of the draft (ie a suspiciously low value)

 

[Channelcat]

No rule against it

If so, I would think teams would be wise to do their deals after....rather than playing guessing games.

 

[LokiDog]

You take Bean there 10/10 times over Nino

100%
You also take Appleton over Demelo. Draft is heavy on D. Appleton already looks like a solid 2/3 RW. You take the young kid with upside.

 

[Oddbob]

Price and Tarasenko seem like slam dunks. Dreigder as a 1B? Give Landy his 6 years. Could be interesting. Depends on if they want to try and compete right away

A 34 year old 10.5X5 is a slam dunk? He isn't getting picked.

 

[WaW]

Did anyone think Vegas was a contender after their draft?

Nope, I don't think so. We have the benefit of hindsight from how that draft turned out and can apply similar principles from it to this one for the purposes of harmlessly projecting, though.

 

[Channelcat]

100%
You also take Appleton over Demelo. Draft is heavy on D. Appleton already looks like a solid 2/3 RW. You take the young kid with upside.

He's a big smart kid who can fly. Id rather lose DeMelo

 

[CupInSIX]

Did anyone think Vegas was a contender after their draft?

Perron, Smith &Fleury were coming off bad years, so people saw Neal, Marchessault, Haula & a bunch of scrubs with 2 promising prospects and major missed opportunities for not taking Manson & Dumba.

I thought they whiffed for sure on Dumba.

 

[burstnbloom]

You pick Joseph and you let Tampa come back begging to take salary.

That does not feel like good strategy

 

[1989]

Best lineup I could make for the draft-eligible players (if they were in their primes):


Ovechkin - Thornton - Marleau
Perry - Getzlaf - Hall
Landeskog - Krejci - Eberle
Neal - Spezza - Tarasenko

Extras: E. Staal, Duchene, Zajac, Voracek, Simmonds, Johansen

Giordano - Chara
Weber - Edler
Subban - Hamilton

Extras: Stralman, Hamonic, Greene

Price
Rask

Not all in their preferred positions/handedness but the best I could come up with. Lots of extra players and your own preference/biases may vary, but it's a heck of a lineup.

Obviously not a draft-eligible team as there are more than one player selected per team, this is just a "Best of the Rest" team.

 

[burstnbloom]

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

Tony DeAngelo AND Virtanen.

 

[ottawa]

Best lineup I could make for the draft-eligible players (if they were in their primes):


Ovechkin - Thornton - Marleau
Perry - Getzlaf - Hall
Landeskog - Krejci - Eberle
Neal - Johansen - Tarasenko

Giordano - Chara
Weber - Edler
Hamonic - Hamilton

Price
Rask

Not all in their preferred positions/handedness but the best I could come up with. Lots of extra players and your own preference/biases may vary, but it's a heck of a lineup. Half of the d-core I chose were ex-Flames defencemen!

Ovechkin would be in that lineup for 3 games and wouldn't even play a single game with them

 

[1989]

Ovechkin would be in that lineup for 3 games and wouldn't even play a single game with them

I don't know what you mean but I clarified the post in case there was a misunderstanding.

 

[The don godfather]

1000 percent mcann is gonna picked off. Take it to the bank.

 

[Bob and 200 others]

That does not feel like good strategy

The "give us something extra or we'll pick a shit player instead of a quality one" strategy.

Works every time

 

[ottawa]

I don't know what you mean but I clarified the post in case there was a misunderstanding.

Ovechkin is a UFA, he's not signing with Seattle whether they draft him or not.

 

[Shaman464]

Seattle drafts an all star team.

Seattle makes it to the SCF, Toronto doesn't.

HFB servers melt into the center of the earth.

Can my wildest dreams come true?!

 

[trellaine201]

Seattle picks 30 players. There is a 23 active player roster. Where do they get all the minor leaguers? Assuming they have AHL etc affiliates.

Thanks

 

[Cogburn]

Finding cap balance will be key here.

There are some great top end wingers, and even a few goalies, but center and defense seem to be stuck in the middle, with a lot of cap filling that out. Gourde and Tierney seem to be the best Cs, but there is an imbalance with Tarasenko likely being the best forward taken...and then and then and then. If they don't mind going older, Quick and Bishop have reasonable cap hits for a few years too. Combine that with the number of top four D, and there could be a good team to be made here, if they don't throw cap away on so-so players.

 

[Shaman464]

Ovechkin is a UFA, he's not signing with Seattle whether they draft him or not.

I could see him doing it, the allure of leading an expansion team to victory as his last big achievement, as he literally handed sacks with dollar signs on them full of money to do it. Seattle could offer him a massive 2-3 year deal, make him captain, the face of their organization, and it would make a ton of sense from a marketing standpoint.

 

[1989]

Ovechkin is a UFA, he's not signing with Seattle whether they draft him or not.

Yeah, that wasn't the point of my post but sure.

 

[TopC0rner]

100%
You also take Appleton over Demelo. Draft is heavy on D. Appleton already looks like a solid 2/3 RW. You take the young kid with upside.

They will do like Vegas and take around 12 Ds. Due to a shortlist of righties on defense, I think they'll take Demelo over Appleton.

 

[CupInSIX]

Seattle picks 30 players. There is a 23 active player roster. Where do they get all the minor leaguers? Assuming they have AHL etc affiliates.

Thanks

Their affiliate doesn't come into the AHL next year.

Vegas signed a half dozen journeymen, waived some players & picked up some kids that don't reqire waivers.

 

[brent 44]

This is the team, I drafted on Capfriendly. Cap hit is 59.9. The oldest skater is 28(Holtby is 31). Mostly avoids past their prime players with bad contracts.

Forwards
Drouin
Tierny
Compher
McCann
Vatrano
Namestnikov
Blais
Gambrell
Stenlund
Fischer
Shore
Gauthier
Kero
Grundstrom
Colton
Ritchie
Bellows

Defense
Gostisbehere
Petterson
Miller
Butcher
Demelo
Fleury
Benning
Bean
Kylington

Goalie
Holtby
Subban
Kahkonen
Vanecek

 

[Tripod]

Seattle picks 30 players. There is a 23 active player roster. Where do they get all the minor leaguers? Assuming they have AHL etc affiliates.

Thanks

They can/will trade some of the guys they pick so it won't be an issue. But they do have an AHL affiliate-Charlotte Checkers...for a few of the AHL guys they will have for callups.