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Old 08-18-2020, 02:14 PM   #199
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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy View Post
Sure, they didn't want them to be a basement dweller, but competitive is one thing.

Two of three division titles, a 7th ranked points % and a game 7 Cup finals loss?

That's another.

Like I said, I wish we could blow up the Flames and build a new squad with the fancy new expansion draft rules.
That had nothing to do with the expansion rules though, blame the horrible GMs about about 5 franchises.

If the GMs didn't try to be smarter than Vegas and overthink the expansion draft then no way Vegas was a contender.

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It's the net of those trades that made the Knights a contender, not the expansion draft itself:

Marchessault, Smith, Karlsson, Tuch, Haula, Fleury, Theodore, 1st, 2 2nds

for

Petrovic, Anderson, Dumba, Murray, & Manson

Doesn't really look like they would be a contender anymore does it?
If those 5 teams don't make those bad trades then nobody is talking about Vegas being "gifted" a contender.

Expansion draft format was fine, it was the GMs that were the issue.
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