Expansion pool

Wow, they are going to have Price and Giordano!!! I’m already more excited for this team than I was Vegas!

Also Tarasenko and Domi

If they resurrect their careers, some GMs are going to look silly

With the apparent cost incentive for Seattle to pick someone plus the lesson learned from Vegas I think most of those players will be available. There are a bunch of good ones.

Full giant list here
media.nhl.com/public/news/15205

Maybe move it over here, Doc. It is more appropriate as a Watercooler thread and I like that link.

ANA: Adam Henrique, C
ARZ: Christian Fischer, LW
BOS: Sean Kuraly, C
BUF: Jake McCabe, D
CAR: Jake Bean, D
CGY: Mark Giordano, D
CHI: Nikita Zadorov, D
COL: Joonas Donskoi, RW
CLB: Max Domi, C
DAL: Nick Caamano, RW
DET: Dennis Cholowski, D
EDM: Tyler Benson, C
FLA: Chris Driedger, G
LAK: Kale Clague, D
MIN: Kaapo Kahkonen, G
MTL: Jonathan Drouin, LW
NAS: Calle Jarnkrok, LW
NJD: Andreas Johnsson, LW
NYI: Jordan Eberle, RW
NYR: Julien Gauthier, RW
OTT: Chris Tierney, C
PHI: Robert Hagg, D
PIT: Jason Zucker, LW
STL: Vladimir Tarasenko, RW
SJS: Ryan Donato, RW
TBL: Yanni Gourde, LW
TOR: Jared McCann, C
VAN: Brogan Rafferty, D
WAS: Vitek Vanecek, G
WPG: Dylan DeMelo, D


Drouin - Domi - Tarasenko
Gourde - Henrique - Eberle
Zucker - Tierney - Donskoi
Jarnkrok - McCann - Donato
Fischer - Kuraly - Johnsson
Caamano - Benson - Gauthier


Giordano - Bean
Zadorov - DeMelo
McCabe - Hagg
Cholowski - Clague
Rafferty

Driedger
Kahkonen
Vanecek

Observations and Predictions:

1. I think SEA passes on Price and go with a young trio of Driedger, Kahkonen and Vanecek. All three have great potential.
2. Defence is weak. I see Giordano as the best Defenceman available by far.
3. Forward depth is very good. I could see SEA passing up an "obvious" forward in order to draft a veteran D instead.
4. I did not do any cap calculations so not sure if cap compliant.
5. Took into account Francis's comments about cap space, which is why I think they will pass on guys like Voracek, Duchene, Johansen, Price, etc.

ANA: Danton Heinen
ARZ: Christian Fischer
BOS: Nick Ritchie
BUF: Matt Irwin
CAR: Jake Bean
CGY: Mark Giordano
CHI: Adam Gaudette
COL: Jonas Johansson
CBJ: Max Domi
DAL: Andrej Sekera
DET: Dennis Cholowski
EDM: Tyson Barrie
FLA: Chris Driedger
LAK: Kale Clague
MIN: Victor Rask
MTL: Jonathan Drouin
NAS: Calle Jarnkrok
NJD: Nathan Bastian
NYI: Jordan Eberle
NYR: Julien Gauthier
OTT: Vitaly Abramov
PHI: Justin Braun
PIT: Zachary Ashton-Reese
STL: Vladimir Tarasenko
SJS: Ryan Donato
TBL: Tyler Johnson
TOR: Jared McCann
VAN: Brogan Rafferty
WAS: Vitek Vanecek
WPG: Dylan DeMelo

Seattle grabs assets from Minnesota, Montreal, and Tampa Bay to select players of their choosing, which are Rask, Drouin, and Johnson.

Lineup:

Drouin Johnson (A) Tarasenko (A)
McCann Domi Eberle
Ritchie Gaudette Jarnkrok
Donato Rask Fischer
Ashton-Reese Bastian

Giordano (A) Barrie
Bean DeMelo
Cholowski Braun
Sekera

-LD's past Giordano are interchangeable. Clague could also take a spot from Bean or Cholowski and one of the three into the minors.

Driedger
Vanecek

Cap hits (corresponding exactly as the players listed above):

$5,500,000 $5,000,000 $7,500,000
$2,940,000 $5,300,000 $5,500,000
$2,750,000 $1,250,000 $2,000,000
$2,000,000 $4,000,000 $1,000,000
$1,150,000 $1,750,000

$6,750,000 $6,000,000
$925,000 $3,000,000
$925,000 $1,800,000
$1,500,000

$3,750,000
$716,667

Salary Cap 20/21 $81,500,000
Kraken Cap $73,006,667
Cap Left Over $8,493,333

Minors:

Abramov
Gauthier (1 x 755k)
Bastian (2 x 825k)
Rafferty (1 x 925k)
Irwin (1 x 800k)
Clague/Bean/Cholowski (1 x 925k)
Johansson (1 x 750k)


Takeaways: There are big opportunities to land some assets. I think at least 2 of the following 4 teams are going to be paying assets to rid of something:

Minnesota, Montreal, Tampa Bay, and Nashville. My projected lineup went with 3/4 teams.

-Nashville could very well pawn Johansen off to Seattle. It would cost them their 2021 1st and more if they did though. Maybe Tolvanen.
-I had a hard time deciding between Dunn and Tarasenko. I went with Tarasenko because of his marketable abilities to Seattle, and would be their best goal scorer regardless of health.
-I just don't see the Kraken taking on Carey Price with his cap hit, his age, and also the signing bonus that he is owed. Makes more sense for them to roll a goalie tandem of Driedger and Vanacek splitting the duties.
-Edmonton legit doesn't have anyone good to take, so Seattle will take Barrie and sign him to a 6m x 3 year deal.

I missed getting in before the form was shut.






Including everyone that's $75m.
There were some big names that were tough to leave off but you have to to make the cap work.
I also thought the surprise of Landeskog meant that JVR wasn't a slam dunk anymore.
I had a hard time finding a good top C hence my gamble on Drouin. Perhaps with great wingers he could regain his center abilities. I debated between him and Domi and picked him as Columbus had better prospect options. 
Same as Palat vs Gourde but C is more important and there are a pile of good wingers. 

I'm also assuming no first rounders are traded. 

I may change some

FOrWard
Tarasenko, Vladimir 
Eberle, Jordan 
Drouin, Jonathan 
Domi, Max 
Gourde, Yanni 
Dadonov, Evgeni 
Donskoi, Joonas
Johnsson, Andreas 
McCann, Jared 
Järnkrok, Calle 
Fischer, Christian 
Gadjovich, Jonah 
Frk, Martin 
Donato, Ryan

DEFENSE (12) 
Stecher, Troy
Hägg, Robert
Fleury, Haydn 
Niku, Sami 

Zboril, Jakub 
Honka, Julius 
Borgen, William 
Larsson, Adam 
Bean, Jake 
Smith, Brendan 
Kylington, Oliver 
Zadorov, Nikita

GOALTENDERS (4) 
DeSmith, Casey
Kähkönen, Kaapo 
Vanecek, Vitek 
Driedger, Chris 

Just 11 for me.

Totally agree

I began to suspect side deals when they named so many young guys that have fallen short of their potential. I wonder if Seattle got a butt load of draft picks or some prime prospects.

Pitlick? Tanev? Really?

With that budget, you have to expect

1-deals to take on remove big contracts from teams and/or
2-free agent signings. They already did Lrsson, Oleksiak and Dreidger

I bet the fact that we did not see many big names was Francis saying they were not going to make it easy to dump contracts. I expect a bunch of deals in the wake of the draft. The only ones guaranteed to be on the roster were the six wearing the jerseys on stage

Well, no side deals but the trades started. Flames get a bottom 6er for a 2022 4th. I like that.

I believe I hit 10

Unfortunately I debated a few picks

Tanev was one, Dunn another, and blackwell... but I was wrong on all three.