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Seattle Expansion Draft

So no real surprises. They drafted a solid defensive team, didn't take any risks other than Giordano, the show was hosted by two blocks of wood.

Hard not to see them being a major player in free agency or on the trade market.
 
herman said:
MTL: gee, we have to find a suitor for Jake, or else we could lose him
Price: I volunteer as tribute (he literally signed the NMC waiving ahead of the deadline because MTL didn't ask)

MTL: We couldn't figure anything out with Jake, so thank you Carey, we will take you up on your offer to be exposed. I don't think they'll take you with the contract you earned.

SEA: Wow, Carey Price, eh? We will consider this wonderful happenstance. Price's wife is from Washington, dontchaknow, and we would love to have such a wonderful person headlining our new franchise

MTL: *Sweating*  Uh, well... actually... uh... his hips and everything are very broken... just falling right off right now, so he'll likely miss next season, yeah.
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SEA: We have decided it is not in our best interest to pick Carey Price

MTL:
https://twitter.com/EricEngels/status/1418224870723407873
 
https://twitter.com/TomFranklinSTL/status/1417896736849334280

Obviously we don't know what their actual line combinations might be and there's still plenty of time for them to make moves with all their cap space and yes Vegas surprised with their roster in their first season but the more I think about their expansion draft the less I like it.
 
They've set themselves up to be big players in the UFA market and as cap brokers on short-term deals. It's not a great strategy for immediate success, but could work better in terms of developing a longer-term foundation. They might actually be able to build some prospect capital.
 
bustaheims said:
They've set themselves up to be big players in the UFA market and as cap brokers on short-term deals. It's not a great strategy for immediate success, but could work better in terms of developing a longer-term foundation. They might actually be able to build some prospect capital.
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They've already missed a big chance to do that though with the expansion draft. Vegas was able to get 2 1st rounders and 2 2nd rounders in their draft in part because they took on Clarkson and Grabovski's contract. Seattle though decides to take a complete scrub from Philly instead of getting a sweetener to pick GhostBear's contract like Arizona did.
 
herman said:
Uh, have you guys seen who is projected to be #1/2/3 in next year's entry draft?
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a) I don't think they're gonna do very well but they also won't be Buffalo/Detroit/San Jose/Ottawa bad and b) this strategy would be fine if they're intending to tank but I don't think picks/signings like Larsson and Oleksiak really signal that was their plan.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
bustaheims said:
They've set themselves up to be big players in the UFA market and as cap brokers on short-term deals. It's not a great strategy for immediate success, but could work better in terms of developing a longer-term foundation. They might actually be able to build some prospect capital.
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They've already missed a big chance to do that though with the expansion draft. Vegas was able to get 2 1st rounders and 2 2nd rounders in their draft in part because they took on Clarkson and Grabovski's contract. Seattle though decides to take a complete scrub from Philly instead of getting a sweetener to pick GhostBear's contract like Arizona did.
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I guess they felt it would be more prudent to use the cap space on independent moves and as a 3rd party cap broker. Teams were reportedly more hesitant to pay the kind of prices they did with Vegas (understandably, considering how that worked out in a number of cases) and Seattle was apparently asking an even higher price for that type of deal around the expansion draft.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Seattle though decides to take a complete scrub from Philly instead of getting a sweetener to pick GhostBear's contract like Arizona did.
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I guess they were asking for too much...
https://twitter.com/charlieo_conn/status/1418283342408167425
 
Guilt Trip said:
CarltonTheBear said:
Seattle though decides to take a complete scrub from Philly instead of getting a sweetener to pick GhostBear's contract like Arizona did.
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I guess they were asking for too much...
https://twitter.com/charlieo_conn/status/1418283342408167425
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