Sabrespace Seattle Expansion Draft

[rakish]

I skipped one as I decided Brawndo or Hoss would take my team while I was working on it, so I went with New Jersey. Slim pickins, 2nd place goes to 32 year old UFA goaltender Aaron Dell, if you corner the market on goaltending you might be able to distribute them back for picks. The better option for New Jersey is Nathan Bastian. Played fourth line against the other teams power play forwards and didn't get eaten alive. His shorthanded work? The entire team has scary PK numbers, who coaches that team?

He's young(23) and can play a role. Makes 850 or 875, I forget.

[PerreaultForever]

idk about Price, that's a lot of money. Might be tempted to grab one or two of those big offensive contracts still out there from Nashville and others. 

I think maybe too many D men so far as looking at NJ I'd probably take Butcher. 

[TheAud]

I'll go for Nashville. Calle Jarnkrok, 28, F at $2M. Middle 6 guy with expiring contract could net more assets at the deadline or play a role if they are Vegas competitive. 

[Taro T]

Keep seeing people making selections with statements to the effect of 'Seattle can flip this guy at the deadline.'  (Realize that Sakman was saying it could go either way.)

Really doubt that Francis will be using that as his selection criterion for the vast majority of players he selects.  He's going to try to put a team together that can get ahead of: LA, SJ, Anaheim, & Vancouver while not allowing 5 Norris Division teams ahead of it.  That is a very reachable goal IMHO.

[The Jokeman]

From the New York Islanders the Kraken select C Kieffer Bellows. As he's a young kid who has some upside. He might not play every night early on but cheap depth with potential. Edit cap hit: $894,167.00

Edited July 21, 2021 by The Jokeman

[Andrew Amerk]

STL - Tarasenko 

[GASabresIUFAN]

1 hour ago, Andrew Amerk said:

STL - Tarasenko 

I see you went to the Pi school of following instructions.  (agree with the choice)

1 hour ago, The Jokeman said:

From the New York Islanders the Kraken select C Kieffer Bellows. As he's a young kid who has some upside. He might not play every night early on but cheap depth with potential. Edit cap hit: $894,167.00

Agree.  Nice choice

 

Edited July 21, 2021 by GASabresIUFAN

[GASabresIUFAN]

20 picks are in 

12 F, 6D, 2G 13 NHL contracts with a cap of 48.6

[PerreaultForever]

Colin Blackwell from the Rangers. Nice low cap number too. 725,000.

[steveoath]

Can we play more than once?

From Ottowa the Kraken select forward Chris Tierney. 1yr left at 3.5M aav. Solid, dependable bottom 6 guy.

[rakish]

9 hours ago, Taro T said:

Keep seeing people making selections with statements to the effect of 'Seattle can flip this guy at the deadline.'  (Realize that Sakman was saying it could go either way.)

Really doubt that Francis will be using that as his selection criterion for the vast majority of players he selects.  He's going to try to put a team together that can get ahead of: LA, SJ, Anaheim, & Vancouver while not allowing 5 Norris Division teams ahead of it.  That is a very reachable goal IMHO.

Well, you get, what 30 picks, to find 23 players? This isn't how the draft is going to happen, we don't know enough information about deals, one teams pick will influence other teams picks, we're just talking hockey here. Toronto/Pittsburgh deal indicates to me the Toronto has a deal in place, Pittsburgh doesn't, but I'm just guessing.

What about this? I think you can get sufficient goaltending, OK defense, and too many Nathan Bastian type players, who is a pretty good hockey player. What you can't get enough of is power play talent, outside of the odd Tarasenko. What about rolling 3 lines, and having guys that only play power play, but don't play enough defense to get on the ice 5-5? Nikita Gusev comes to mind. 

[Ducky]

I'd like them to take Appleton but they're probably going to take DeMelo from the Jets.

RHD with 3 x 3m left on his deal.

Edited July 21, 2021 by Ducky

[Taro T]

57 minutes ago, rakish said:

Well, you get, what 30 picks, to find 23 players? This isn't how the draft is going to happen, we don't know enough information about deals, one teams pick will influence other teams picks, we're just talking hockey here. Toronto/Pittsburgh deal indicates to me the Toronto has a deal in place, Pittsburgh doesn't, but I'm just guessing.

What about this? I think you can get sufficient goaltending, OK defense, and too many Nathan Bastian type players, who is a pretty good hockey player. What you can't get enough of is power play talent, outside of the odd Tarasenko. What about rolling 3 lines, and having guys that only play power play, but don't play enough defense to get on the ice 5-5? Nikita Gusev comes to mind. 

Absolutely this is being done in a vacuum.  But there is a bit of info that should be widely known given how things happened at the Vegas draft.  And that is, a "win now" (or at least try to win now) team can be assembled.    Especially in a division with LA, Anaheim, SJ, & Vancouver in it a team should be expecting to compete for the playoffs.  And a team trying to do that ISN'T looking at selections through the lens of "if things go sour, what do we recoup at the end of February."

Now, if people were saying they were grabbing a guy to be part of a package to flip NOW, that would make sense IMHO, but grabbing a guy with intentions of flipping him in January or February, not so much.  Again, IMHO.

[Doohicksie]

On 7/20/2021 at 12:41 AM, PerreaultForever said:

Anaheim, well since they protected Deslauriers it has to be Henrique. Mostly cause there's slim pickings on that roster.  C  5.825

They protected D-Lo?  What a world we live in.

[GASabresIUFAN]

I'm breaking my own rule.  Sea is going to grab Gourde from the Lighting to center Tarasenko.  He's 29 with 4 years left at 5.166 per season.

[GASabresIUFAN]

So here is where we stand with 6 picks left

We have 15 forwards (14 min), 7 D (9 min), 2 G (3 Min) with 17 NHL contracts (20 min)

The biggest issues with the team so far is incredibly to many expensive centers.  Rask, Tierney and Henrique is one to many centers of this mid level caliber.  The team could also use another more experienced D.  Cap Hit is currently 60.99 mill.

The only change that I'd make so far is swapping Rask from Min for their young goalie Kahkonen who is signed for 1 yr at 725K.

In the remaining 6 picks they need at least 2 D and 1 goalie and 3 guys with NHL deals.

Edited July 21, 2021 by GASabresIUFAN

[Sabres Fan in NS]

From the dastardly Flyers ... Ghost

There is one of the Dman they needed.

EDIT:

Not sure of how long remains on his contract, but his cap hit is pretty significant ($4.5, I think) for what Seattle will get.

Edited July 21, 2021 by New Scotland (NS)

[PerreaultForever]

2 hours ago, Doohickie said:

They protected D-Lo?  What a world we live in.

ikr. Crazy but when you look at their roster it's actually not very good and there wasn't really much else to protect (that needed protecting). 

[GASabresIUFAN]

They will almost certainly grab Pettersson from Pittsburgh.  D 4.025 mill

I saw in another thread that Sea is taking McCann from the Leafs.  

I also might grab Connor Sheary from Wash for 735K for a couple of years, but they need at least one more goalie so Vanacek @ 716K

I've finished up the draft based on needs

SJ - Donato  LW 1.9mill, Van - Bowey - D 750K.

Edited July 21, 2021 by GASabresIUFAN

[GASabresIUFAN]

Final List

17F 10D 3G 21 contracts and 81.4 million.

Depth Chart

McCann Gourde Tarasenko

Donato Henrique Compher

Bellows Tierney Blackwell

????      Rask       ??????

Giordano Strecher

Pettersson Bowey

Bean Zadorov

Ghost Laurzon

Borgen

Price, Dreidger, Vanacek

[rakish]

On 7/20/2021 at 6:29 PM, rakish said:

I skipped one as I decided Brawndo or Hoss would take my team while I was working on it, so I went with New Jersey. Slim pickins, 2nd place goes to 32 year old UFA goaltender Aaron Dell, if you corner the market on goaltending you might be able to distribute them back for picks. The better option for New Jersey is Nathan Bastian. Played fourth line against the other teams power play forwards and didn't get eaten alive. His shorthanded work? The entire team has scary PK numbers, who coaches that team?

He's young(23) and can play a role. Makes 850 or 875, I forget.

Nathan Bastian was, of course, a gimme.