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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
That's my opinion as a fan of an opposing team.
Every other team has to build through the draft. Why do they get to steal NHL players from other teams that are good enough when put together to challenge for a President's trophy and Stanley Cup?
The $500 million they paid doesn't mean a ####ing thing to me either, as a fan of the Calgary Flames who just watched them take one of three playoff spots in our division.
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No reasonable expansion draft rules are going to overcome terrible GMs either not protecting their best players or putting themselves in a position where they had to use slots on junk. Anaheim lost Theodore because they had to protect Bieksa instead of Manson; Columbus lost Karlsson because they had to get out from under the Clarkson contract and had to use a spot on Hartnell, who they bought out a week later; Florida threw away Marchessault and Smith just so they could protect Petrovic; St. Louis gave up Perron so they could protect a 9 minute a night 4th liner in Reaves; and the list goes on.
When you look at some of the players that garnered protection slots (L. Schenn, Markus Granlund, Lazar, Carrick, Jurco, Grimaldi, M. Martin, etc.) I find it hard to buy the argument that the rules were too slanted in favor of Vegas.