Seattle Expansion Draft

[herman]

For those wondering, Seattle’s side deals for the expansion draft—and there are apparently several—will be announced tomorrow after 1pm et when the NHL’s trade/signing freeze comes off.

— Gord Miller 🌻 (@GMillerTSN) July 22, 2021

[herman]

They are otherwise angling to be West Coast Nashville

[herman]

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.

SEA: We have decided it is not in our best interest to pick Carey Price

MTL:

Marc Bergevin on Carey Price: Nothing alarming at the moment. He played all the mins in the playoffs and played very well. He had some bumps over the two months, but he's seeing doctors. We're not expecting anything major, but we'll see once they look closely. Perhaps 6-8 weeks.

— Eric Engels (@EricEngels) July 22, 2021

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

In humankind's never-ending Quest for Truth, don't bother ringing up NHL GMs.

[CarltonTheBear]

Like, there was no way Seattle was picking Jake Allen anyway. I'm still baffled they took that risk.

[CarltonTheBear]

#SeaKraken line predictions:

Tanev - Gourde - Eberle
Donskoi - McCann - Appleton
Jarnkrok - Bastian - Lind
Twarynski - True/Geekie - Pitlick

Giordano - Larsson
Oleksiak - H. Fleury
Dunn - Lauzon

Extras: C. Fleury, True/Geekie, MacDermid

Driedger
Vanecek

Mid-6 needs help IMO https://t.co/FIuz0CmbCl

— Tom Franklin (@TomFranklinSTL) July 21, 2021

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.

[bustaheims]

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.

[herman]

Uh, have you guys seen who is projected to be #1/2/3 in next year's entry draft?

[CarltonTheBear]

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.

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.

[CarltonTheBear]

Uh, have you guys seen who is projected to be #1/2/3 in next year's entry draft?

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.

[bustaheims]

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.

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.

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.

[Bill_Berg_is_sad]

Uh, have you guys seen who is projected to be #1/2/3 in next year's entry draft?

I see Justin Cote is set to go 32nd.

[Frank E]

We sure that "projected" bottom six is real actual hockey players?

[Guilt Trip]

Seattle though decides to take a complete scrub from Philly instead of getting a sweetener to pick GhostBear's contract like Arizona did.

I guess they were asking for too much...

Fletcher basically says that Seattle's price to take on Gostisbehere was much higher than the one he paid to Arizona today.

— Charlie O'Connor (@charlieo_conn) July 22, 2021

[herman]

Seattle though decides to take a complete scrub from Philly instead of getting a sweetener to pick GhostBear's contract like Arizona did.

I guess they were asking for too much...

Fletcher basically says that Seattle's price to take on Gostisbehere was much higher than the one he paid to Arizona today.

— Charlie O'Connor (@charlieo_conn) July 22, 2021

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