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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
When I heard there was a hold up on the trade because of NMC talks the first thing that came to mind was Tree getting a "wink wink" agreement from Lucic that he would agree to Seattle only for the expansion draft, obviously he wouldn't agree to fully waive his NMC or he would be riding buses in Stockton.
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Here's my question about Seattle: why do they draft Lucic?
Let's look at both our protection options:
7F 3D
Johnny, Monahan, Lindholm, Tkachuk, Backlund, Dube, Bennett (whoever)
Gio, Hanifin, Valimaki
4F 4D
Johnny Sean Tkachuk Lindholm
Gio Valimaki Hanifin Andersson
There's no way to keep all our defensemen. One of Kylington/Andersson/Hanifin is gone. It doesn't matter if Lucic is 'unprotected' - he'll be 34-35 by then, still have his stupid contract, and nobody is taking him when they can have Oliver Kylington or Rasmus Andersson instead.
All Lucic has to do is agree to waive for the draft so it doesn't force us to expose another forward. If he's agreed to that, he's alright in my book - he does bring more of what we need than Neal.