SJS GM Game Expansion Thread

[Gecklund]

Forwards

1. Tyler Seguin
2. Jamie Benn
3. Alex Radulov
4. Joe Pavelski
5. Radek Faksa
6. Roope Hintz
7. Jason Dickinson

Defense

1. John Klingberg
2. Miro Heiskanen
3. Esa Lindell

Goalie

1. Ben Bishop

Exposed: Andrew Cogliano, Denis Gurianov, Jamie Oleksiak, Anton Khudobin

 

[Gecklund]

Forwards

1. Dylan Larkin
2. Anthony Mantha
3. Tyler Bertuzzi
4. Robby Fabbri
5. Henrik Borgstrom
6. Aleksi Saarela
7. Vladislav Namestnikov

Defense

1. Filip Hronek
2. Troy Stecher
3. Dennis Chowlowski

Goalie

1. Thomas Greiss

Exposed: Adam Erne, Michael Rasmussen, Jonathan Bernier

 

[Gecklund]

Forwards:

1. Anze Kopitar
2. Dustin Brown
3. Jeff Carter
4. Adrian Kempe

Defense

1. Drew Doughty
2. Kale Clague
3. Matt Roy
4. Sean Walker

Goalie

1. Cal Petersen

Exposed: Blake Lizotte, Carl Grundstrom, Olli Maata, Jonathan Quick

 

[Gecklund]

Forwards

1. Matt Duchene
2. Ryan Johansen
3. Filip Forsberg
4. Viktor Arvidsson
5. Lars Eller
6. Rocco Grimaldi
7. Colton Sissons

Defense

1. Roman Josi
2. Ryan Ellis
3. Nate Schmidt

Goalie

1. Juuse Saros

Exposed: Yakov Trenin, Dante Fabbro, Connor Ingram

 

[Gecklund]

Forwards

1. Evgeni Dadanov
2. Colin White
3. Connor Brown
4. Brady Tkachuk
5. Nick Paul
6. Chris Tierney
7. Logan Brown

Defense

1. Thomas Chabot
2. Nikita Zaitsev
3. Josh Brown

Goalie

1. Matt Murray

Exposed: Derek Stepan, Ryan Dzingel, Erik Gubrandson, Filip Gustavsson

 

[Gecklund]

Forwards

1. Jake Guentzel
2. Jason Zucker
3. Victor Rask
4. Bryan Rust
5. Brandon Tanev
6. Jared McCann
7. Kasperi Kapanen

Defense

1. Shayne Gostibehere
2. Nick Jensen
3. Marcus Pettersson

Goalie

1. Alex Georgiev

Exposed: Brian Duomolin, Tristan Jarry

 

[Gecklund]

Forwards:

1. Brayden Point
2. Steven Stamkos
3. Anthony Cirelli
4. Nikita Kucherov
5. Ondrej Palat
6. Alex Killorn
7. Yanni Gourde

Defense:

1. Victor Hedman
2. Ryan McDonagh
3. Mikhail Sergachev

Goalie

1. Andrei Vasilevskiy

Exposed: Tyler Johnson, Erik Cernak

 

[Carl182]

Forwards:

1. Clayton Keller
2. Phil Kessel
3. Conor Garland
4. Nick Schmaltz
5. Christian Dvorak
6. Christian Fischer
7. Lawson Crouse

Defense:

1. Oliver Ekman-Larsson
2. Jakob Chychrun
3. Kyle Capobianco

Goalies:

1. Darcy Kuemper

Exposed: Tyler Pitlick, Johan Larsson, Adin Hill

Kuemper has been traded to EDM in the game!

 

[m0pe]

To start off our team, we will be announcing our leadership group for the year.

Captain - Mark Giordano - Selected from the Carolina Hurricanes
Alternate Captain - Logan Couture - Selected from the San Jose Sharks
Alternate Captain - Anders Lee - Selected from the New York Islanders

All 3 of these guys were the Captain of their respective teams last year, and it is a big deal for our organization to come away with that kind of leadership from this expansion draft.

Rest of team to follow shortly.

 

[m0pe]

North Division Selections

- Chris Tanev

- Oscar Klefbom

- Jake Allen

- Filip Gustavsson

- Travis Dermott

- Braden Holtby

- Pierre-Luc Dubois


From the North Division, we are pleased to add our 3 goaltenders we will be moving forward with this year. Allen and Holtby will split starts while Gustavsson gets lots of starts in the minors.

We have also added 2 quality veteran defenseman to our top-4 in Klefbom and Tanev. Dermott will be our #7 to start the year as his youth and ability to play either side well is a big asset to us.

After wearing out his welcome in Columbus (and apparently Winnipeg too...), we are thrilled to add a young top-6 C to our organization in PLD. Hopefully he thrives with the fresh start in Seattle and can become a core piece and one of the faces of the franchise for us.

 

[m0pe]

East Division Selections

- Ondrej Kase

- Will Borgen

- Janne Kuokkanen

- Anders Lee "A"

- Julien Gauthier

- Phillipe Myers

- Brian Dumoulin

- T.J. Oshie


From the East Division, we have added a nice mix of leadership and youth.

As stated before, we are pleased to welcome an important top-6 player to our leadership group in Anders Lee. Oshie and Dumoulin are both previous Stanley Cup Winners as key cogs to their team, and they will be for ours as well.

We will give many of these young players chances to make the team, but most will get lots of valuable AHL minutes to start. Kase and Myers are expected to play a role in our starting lineup and provide some youth, while Borgen, Kuokkanen and Gauthier will enter the lineup after some seasoning.

 

[m0pe]

Central Division Selections

- Mark Giordano "C"

- Brandon Hagel

- Boone Jenner

- Denis Gurianov

- Michael Rasmussen

- Carter Verhaeghe

- Yakov Trenin

- Cal Foote


From the Central, we have added our Captain, Mark Giordano, as well as a lot of young, role players.

Gurianov was a guy we didn't expect to be available but will be a big part of our top-6. And after the year he is having, we are going to give Verhaeghe a chance to repeat in the same top-6 role too in Seattle.

Jenner is a versatile player who will be a key part of our bottom-6 having proven success in that role. Hagel and Trenin will also contend for time as lesser known guys we think can really turn heads.

Rasmussen and Foote add 2 big pieces to our prospect pool and will start in the AHL but are expected to get NHL time this season.

 

[m0pe]

West Division Selections

- Kevin Shattenkirk

- Tyler Pitlick

- Ryan Graves

- Carl Grundstrom

- Marcus Foligno

- Logan Couture "A"

- Ivan Barbashev


From the West, we have selected another one of our Captains, Logan Couture, who should form a formidable 1-2 punch down the middle along with Dubois.

Shattenkirk brings some puck moving ability and offense to our back end in a top-4 role. We have also filled out most of our bottom-6 here with gritty, two-way players in Pitlick, Foligno, Grundstrom and Barbashev.

Graves gets the honour of being the 1st ever Kraken player to be traded, but we thank him for his very short time here and wish him luck in Vancouver.

 

[m0pe]

Carter Verhaeghe - Pierre-Luc Dubois - T.J. Oshie
Anders Lee - Logan Couture - Denis Gurianov
Marcus Foligno - Boone Jenner - Ondrej Kase
Carl Grundstrom - Ivan Barbashev - Tyler Pitlick
X - Adam Gaudette, Yakov Trenin
(Brandon Hagel - Michael Rasmussen - Julien Gauthier
(Janne Kuokkanen - Semyon Der-Arguchintsev)

Mark Giordano - Kevin Shattenkirk
Oscar Klefbom - Chris Tanev
Brian Dumoulin - Phillipe Myers
X - Travis Dermott
(Cal Foote - Will Borgen)

Jake Allen
Braden Holtby
(Filip Gustavsson)


Feel we have drafted a team that can compete year 1 with a good mix of leadership, experience, youth and depth.

Through trades, we have also added 2 extra 2021 1sts, a solid prospect in SDA and another 2022 2nd.

Goaltending is probably our biggest weakness but we have a great defensive group of D that should make it easier, That being said, we are in the market for a starting goalie for the right price (including a non-Seattle 2021 1st).
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[Peter Griffin]

Great team! Only issue, Calle Jarnkrok is actually Washington property in this game and he was protected.

 

[m0pe]

Great team! Only issue, Calle Jarnkrok is actually Washington property in this game and he was protected.

Shambles. Will fix thanks.