LOL at Seattle. Are they keeping any of the players they’ve gotten through the expansion draft or is everyone on the block? What a difference with Vegas. One is instantly a powerhouse, while the other is instantly a joke.
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LOL at Seattle. Are they keeping any of the players they’ve gotten through the expansion draft or is everyone on the block? What a difference with Vegas. One is instantly a powerhouse, while the other is instantly a joke.
The main difference is that NHL GMs overpaid for protection deals with Vegas and gave up too much in assets and young players to try and protect their rosters.
Last summer, NHL GMs understanding the expansion draft meta in a salary cap world refused to make any protection deals and just let Seattle take the one player.
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The main difference is that NHL GMs overpaid for protection deals with Vegas and gave up too much in assets and young players to try and protect their rosters.
Last summer, NHL GMs understanding the expansion draft meta in a salary cap world refused to make any protection deals and just let Seattle take the one player.
Seattle messed up by not agreeing to take any cap back either, I'm sure they could have gained assets if they took back some bad contracts.
LOL at Seattle. Are they keeping any of the players they’ve gotten through the expansion draft or is everyone on the block? What a difference with Vegas. One is instantly a powerhouse, while the other is instantly a joke.
Their biggest screwup resulted in them not getting two of JVR/Voracek/Domi/Atkinson, no? Atkinson is having a fine year but there would have been little way of knowing that Columbus was willing to trade him for Voracek.
Otherwise by virtue of the Vegas draft where a team's best "10th" forward was already selected and teams planned better without making stupid deals, there wasn't much the Kraken could do. Caps got lucky with them not taking Dillon costing the Kraken a 2nd but I think that's the only other noticeable mistake.
Huh, in my mind Johansson was with the Caps until only the last couple years, but had to double-check that it was actually five years ago that he was traded. And he's since played for the Devils, Bruins, Sabres, Wild and Kraken. Hasn't played more than 60 games in regular season, hasn't scored more than 30 points in a season, and is a combined -71 since his 24 goal, 34 assist 2016-17 season with the Caps. Damn.
