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Duck Rodgers posted:Please tell me this counts as the expansion draft pick from the Jets. Congrats to the SinBin
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a false posted:the rangers for sure. probably montreal and toronto too Blackhawks games here will be insane since the Vegas tourism industry and it's supporting industries (equipment manufacturing, hospitality services, etc) seems to be staffed with 60% ex-Chicagoans. I realize it's a transient population, but the number of people I've met in a decade from Chicago and how it is disproportional to any other region (Californians included) absolutely astounds me. Scaramouche posted:Sorry SinBin guy! Maybe next time I think he's aiming for an SBNation buyout. However their job opening for someone to cover the team was still open a week ago even after the deadline was supposedly up, so I guess they aren't biting.
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Craptacular! posted:Blackhawks games here will be insane since the Vegas tourism industry and it's supporting industries (equipment manufacturing, hospitality services, etc) seems to be staffed with 60% ex-Chicagoans. Everyone from Chicago I've ever met here told me it's because they hated the snow and never wanted to see it again. Always made sense to me. But yeah, there are a lot of them.
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Sounds like it could work out. It's not like they're throwing huge wads of money at him.
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is lawless the guy who kept dog whistling about kane and buff?
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https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/860321853205655552 I know I'm cheering for Guy to succeed.
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Wasn't he supposed to be like the big international FA this summer? Kind of funny that Vegas just swooped in and undercut all of that.
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Vegas has the luxury of offering money, term, and ice time that other teams probably can't or won't. I don't remember the circumstances of Radulov signing in Montreal, but he only got a one year deal while being a more proven commodity (albeit with some baggage). I can't imagine many other teams lining up to give a 30 year old career international player two years at 4.5.
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Shipachyov's probably gonna be the first line centre and gets to live in Vegas. I've heard of worse fates. Also with this signing, they only need to draft players with an average caphit of $1.5m to reach the required cap hit. It's becoming more and more doubtful the Knights are gonna be taking poo poo like Dustin Brown off of teams' hands.
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Yeah it's a good signing. I would have been happy had the Devils did the same thing, these kinds of guys are absolutely worth a one or two year gamble for teams with cap space.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:is lawless the guy who kept dog whistling about kane and buff? Lawless is a garbage reporter, but I don't think he's a racist. Most of those poo poo articles came from the Winnipeg Sun, which if you know anything about Canadian media should make immediate sense to you
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Wow, that seems great for LV. On the downside, Bettman is probably really happy about Shipachyov going to Vegas instead of Montreal.
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capfriendly and the nhl's expansion draft primer make it seem like the salary requirements in the draft and the actual salary cap are separate: they still have to hit the 43.8 million with their expansion draft picks. so if you are building a floor team then they have 5.7 million left to spend on non expansion draft picks
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Mike_V posted:Wasn't he supposed to be like the big international FA this summer? Kind of funny that Vegas just swooped in and undercut all of that. Yeah, a lot of Montreal writers have been talking up the Habs chance of getting him, but that was never really gonna happen.
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Icing a team of KHL players + good prospects actually doesn't seem like that bad of an idea. Get Radulov to sign with you, see if you can get New Jersey to do the Kovalchuk sign and trade or whatever. Maybe take a chance on some other KHLers that never really got a chance their first try at the NHL (Khoklachev with Boston comes to mind).
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Jamwad Hilder posted:Icing a team of KHL players + good prospects actually doesn't seem like that bad of an idea. Get Radulov to sign with you, see if you can get New Jersey to do the Kovalchuk sign and trade or whatever. Maybe take a chance on some other KHLers that never really got a chance their first try at the NHL (Khoklachev with Boston comes to mind). more KHLers to come http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2017/05/05/report-vegas-interested-in-dadonov-shipachyovs-khl-teammate/ getting guys who already play well together is a good idea and it will help give them the illusion of having multiple decent lines by being able to use them as a pair and settle your draft players elsewhere. if they actually do target Kovy or Radulov, they look fun as hell already
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Bring back the enigmatic Alexander Semin!
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:They should get plotnikov It sucks that he never had a goal in the nhl. The coyotes announcers were hyping him up like he came across the berlin wall to enjoy the fruits of democracy and capitalism, and he left with 3 points in 45 games. Rob klinkhammer though... edit: lmao https://twitter.com/Bobbyklink/status/854148880690069504
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Yaya posted:It's becoming more and more doubtful the Knights are gonna be taking poo poo like Dustin Brown off of teams' hands. I don't think that was ever likely to happen, the expansion protections are much smaller than in the past, no need to take garbage just to fill the roster. They might do like Arizona and take on dead cap space for in exchange for picks but Brown has a lot of actual dollars due to him too.
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man I wish the Devils were doing poo poo like this, they have plenty of TOI to hand outAye Doc posted:more KHLers to come Assuming that report was true, Kovalchuk is going to New York or Florida.
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T-Bone posted:man I wish the Devils were doing poo poo like this, they have plenty of TOI to hand out people were shouting that guy on twitter down as a bad source within minutes of the NY/FLA rumor coming up
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Updated the thread to reflect the upcoming expansion draft. Also watch this space for a contest we're gonna run.
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If it's a contest to correctly guess how many points they get in their first season, my pick is 60.
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it seems like there's a better talent pool available now than in previous expansion scenarios so while i don't expect them to make the playoffs i'd guess like, 80
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JollyPubJerk posted:This'll easily be the best expansion team in history Thank you friend.
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all-Rush mixtape posted:If it's a contest to correctly guess how many points they get in their first season, my pick is 60. https://twitter.com/SchuckersM/status/860960833211432960 The general consensus from that was they'd finish somewhere between 80-90 points. If you want to see teams that Darren Pang, Scott Cullen, and others picked, they're up on capfriendly (based on a protection list done at the conference). Scott Simmonds did one too but looks like he didn't post it publicly.
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Thufir posted:Aside from goaltending, that Scott Cullen lineup action looks pretty fun. Though I'm not convinced all those guys go unprotected. Yeah, the general thought was that there were some pretty obvious consensus picks, which is basically a red flag that the team needs to trade either that player or the player they protected in his stead. Examples: Dumba, Manson, Byron (this one surprised me a bit tbh)... a bunch of others I forget. Manson and Dumba were pretty unanimous though. Also Vancouver is just dregs. There's nothing there. I picked Meygna in my list because goddamn that team is a wasteland of talent.
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I fully expect them to gently caress it up but EA sent out a survey a few weeks ago that promised an expansion mode for NHL 18. They specifically mention the ability to play as the Knights or to add a 32nd team and go through the whole expansion process, although you can't see from the screen shots if you can do a draft for Vegas itself. I was hoping they would add a mode like this, even if the gameplay hasn't changed much/still has a ton of flaws.
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