News: Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft Thread

[CupInSIX]

cFleury is a no brainer with Allen off the table. Bergevin played himself.

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

Seattle is going to have issues with the centers available. Pretty poor group and UFAs aren't much better.

My picks would be:

Anahiem	Josh Mahura	LD
Arizona	Lane Pederson	C
Boston	Connor Clifton	RD
Buffalo	Collin Miller	RD
Calgary	Mark Giordano	LD
Carolina	Nino Niederreter	RW
Chicago	Adam Gaudette	C
Colorado	Joonas Donskoi	RW
Columbus	Max Domi	LW
Dallas	Ben Gleason	LD
Detroit	Kaden Fulcher	G
Edmonton	Tyler Benson	LW
Florida	Chris Dreiger	G
LA	Carl Grundstrom	RW
Minnesota	Carson Soucy	LD
Montreal	Lukas Vejdemo	C
Nashville	Colton Sissons	C
New Jersey	Nathan Bastian	RW
NYI	Josh Bailey	RW
NYR	Colin Blackwell	C
Ottawa	Josh Brown	RD
Philadelphia	Jakub Voracek	RW/LW
Pittsburgh	Brandon Tanev	LW
San Jose	Dylan Gambrell	C
St Louis	Vince Dunn	LD
Tampa	Cal Foote	RD
Toronto	Jared McCann	C
Vancouver	Brayden Holtby	G
Washington	Axel Jonsson-Fjallby	LW
Winnipeg	Mason Appleton	C

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

You complain about the lack of C's available but don't pick any of Gourde, Johansen, Kerfoot (already rumored to be our pick as part of a side-deal with TML), Tierney, Domi. I agree about your statement overall but you are not picking any of the C's in the list I posted to really help the situation out.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

cFleury is a no brainer with Allen off the table. Bergevin played himself.

A Fleury-Fleury pairing?

 

[PensandCaps]

Why would you not take Gio, Gourde, Domi, JVR, Duchene, Eberle if you're Seattle? You can be competitive right away.

Vanecek is available, Dreidger is signed. So they have two goalies that won't cost much cap.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Seattle is going to have issues with the centers available. Pretty poor group and UFAs aren't much better.

My picks would be:

Anahiem	Josh Mahura	LD
Arizona	Lane Pederson	C
Boston	Connor Clifton	RD
Buffalo	Collin Miller	RD
Calgary	Mark Giordano	LD
Carolina	Nino Niederreter	RW
Chicago	Adam Gaudette	C
Colorado	Joonas Donskoi	RW
Columbus	Max Domi	LW
Dallas	Ben Gleason	LD
Detroit	Kaden Fulcher	G
Edmonton	Tyler Benson	LW
Florida	Chris Dreiger	G
LA	Carl Grundstrom	RW
Minnesota	Carson Soucy	LD
Montreal	Lukas Vejdemo	C
Nashville	Colton Sissons	C
New Jersey	Nathan Bastian	RW
NYI	Josh Bailey	RW
NYR	Colin Blackwell	C
Ottawa	Josh Brown	RD
Philadelphia	Jakub Voracek	RW/LW
Pittsburgh	Brandon Tanev	LW
San Jose	Dylan Gambrell	C
St Louis	Vince Dunn	LD
Tampa	Cal Foote	RD
Toronto	Jared McCann	C
Vancouver	Brayden Holtby	G
Washington	Axel Jonsson-Fjallby	LW
Winnipeg	Mason Appleton	C

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

If they pick Foote over the guys available to have from Tampa, they are out of their mind.

I know fans are praying for cap hell for Tampa, but you select Gourde or Palat any day of the week.

 

[bernmeister]

@bernmeister going to be pissed when he sees Rooney protected by NYR instead of Gauthier. Guess centers are worth more, even if they suck...

Y0u called it!
Strong disagree w/Drury on this.
Hopefully they take Blackwell.

 

[KickHisAssZegrass]

Nobody has them taking Henrique? I think he's likely to be their 1c next season.

 

[Twain]

Definitely interesting to see how this unfolds and who they are going to select. It feels like they even have to be wary of not picking a ”too good” roster. Cap space is their biggest asset and they certainly don’t want to waste that by picking too many past their prime big names with high salaries. At least not if there’s not a side deal attached. Picking higher salary players just to flip them might also be almost impossible in the flat cap market. A lot of good players are exposed exactly because they don’t have much or any trade value due to their contracts. Even though there’s plenty of enticing names, Seattle might actually be disappointed that so many teams opted to expose high salary players instead of the younger guys. Nevertheless, they are still in a very good position and I’m sure they will find a good balance and have a really good team from the get-go.

 

[Ace]

Nobody has them taking Henrique? I think he's likely to be their 1c next season.

Maybe if Anaheim gives them something to take the contract of another three years on the wrong side of 30

 

[T_Cage]

JVR-Gourde-Eberle
Domi-Kerfoot-Neiderreiter
Kahun-Jankrok-Compher
AstonReese-Gambrell-Gauthier
Kero, Highmore, Fischer

Gio-DeMelo
Dunn-Zadorov
Butcher-Borgen
Lauzon-Cale Fleury
Mahura, Cholowski

Dridger
Kakkonen
Vanecek
D'Accord (AHL Starter, doesnt need waivers)

Didnt factor in any cap dump deals, tho i imagine there will be 1 or 2. Tho some moves i could imagine in this scenario would be flipping Gio w/retention for futures, moving one of Kakko/Vanecek in a package to get either a 2C, or a 2W and move Domi over to Centre.

 

[KickHisAssZegrass]

Maybe if Anaheim gives them something to take the contract of another three years on the wrong side of 30

I guess, he just turned 31 and is only signed until 34. Those are prety much prime years IMO. 5.8 milly for what is likely to be their 1 or 2C isnt much really

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

If they pick Foote over the guys available to have from Tampa, they are out of their mind.

I know fans are praying for cap hell for Tampa, but you select Gourde or Palat any day of the week.

I disagree but you are likely correct with who they take.

 

[MomoSissokko]

Donskoi, Zadorov, Domi, Tarasenko, Lauzon, Price, Virtanen, Hathaway, Fischer, Murray, Henrique, Giordano, Van Riemsdyk, Bean, Bailey, Appleton, Grundström, Gourde, McCann, Larsson, Driedger, Tanev, Johansen, Blackwell, DeKeyser, Miller, Donato, Oleksiak, Kahkonen

Bailey Johansen Tarasenko
Van Riemsdyk Gourde Donskoi
Grundström Henrique Appleton
Blackwell Domi Tanev
Hathaway

Giordano Lauzon
Bean Zadorov
Larsson Dekeyser
Murray

Price
Driedger
Kahkönen

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

Donskoi, Zadorov, Domi, Tarasenko, Lauzon, Price, Virtanen, Hathaway, Fischer, Murray, Henrique, Giordano, Van Riemsdyk, Bean, Bailey, Appleton, Grundström, Gourde, McCann, Larsson, Driedger, Tanev, Johansen, Blackwell, DeKeyser, Miller, Donato, Oleksiak, Kahkonen

Bailey Johansen Tarasenko
Van Riemsdyk Gourde Donskoi
Grundström Henrique Appleton
Blackwell Domi Tanev
Hathaway

Giordano Lauzon
Bean Zadorov
Larsson Dekeyser
Murray

Price
Driedger
Kahkönen

Are you sure this fits under the cap?

 

[Some Other Flame]

Seems like general strategy for most teams this time was to hope Seattle frees up some cap for them. Francis has the opportunity to pick a really solid team but it probably won't matter with Hakstol as coach.

 

[KrakenSabresMike]

Seems like general strategy for most teams this time was to hope Seattle frees up some cap for them. Francis has the opportunity to pick a really solid team but it probably won't matter with Hakstol as coach.

Coaching is so overrated in hockey …even the good ones get fired every 3-4 years. Look No further than gallant! He got an expansion team to the cup and still got fired…it’s way more about the players especially with an older team

 

[HuskyBruinPride]

Was Tampa expected to expose Palat? I mean i know they have cap struggles, but he did just have a pretty good year...

 

[T REX]

Read the NHL said that Seatte cannot pick Price then retain and send him back...it would be considered cap circumvention.

For all the habs saying this was legal. Finally.

 

[MomoSissokko]

Are you sure this fits under the cap?

You are right, my roster is almost exactly 10 over
Maybe one of Domi or Henrique (both around 5,5) is redundant and also Dekeyser (5 mio) is too expensive
Dzingel instead of James van Riemsdyk could save other 3,5 mio....
now it could work
(and if not, I would not select Tanev with 3,5)

 

[KelVarnsen]

Sorry Kraken fans. You’re not allowed to take the phenomenal Nic Deslauriers. He is protected and will be a Ducks player! Hope you can cope.

 

[Jag68Sid87]

Can anyone explain the Ivan Khomutov thing? He is listed as available from Jersey's list but he is 36 years old and retired. If Seattle cannot select the likes of Ryan Kesler (rightfully so), why could they draft a retired guy? Not saying it makes any sense to do so, but I just find it weird that he is "eligible".

Anyone?

 

[Troublesome 85]

Bruins need to do some sort of deal to keep Lauzon

 

[Fistfullofbeer]

You are right, my roster is almost exactly 10 over
Maybe one of Domi or Henrique (both around 5,5) is redundant and also Dekeyser (5 mio) is too expensive
Dzingel instead of James van Riemsdyk could save other 3,5 mio....
now it could work
(and if not, I would not select Tanev with 3,5)

I am honestly surprised with some of the players available. We can definitely ice a very competitive roster but that team would be close to a cap team.

 

[joepeps]

You are right, my roster is almost exactly 10 over
Maybe one of Domi or Henrique (both around 5,5) is redundant and also Dekeyser (5 mio) is too expensive
Dzingel instead of James van Riemsdyk could save other 3,5 mio....
now it could work
(and if not, I would not select Tanev with 3,5)

Do you have to be cap compliant with 30 men when you are only have 21-24 men roster? Be over the cap in the offseason and trade some players for picks.

You take Gio and trade him at the deadline and do the same for some other players.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Nobody is taking Duchene without a massive sweetener. Terrible performance of late and terrible cap.

Also cursed