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If you would like to, you can play around on General Fanager's expansion tool. Decent way to guess who will be unprotected, what the expansion team might look like, etc. It's set up to automatically protect players who have to be protected because of NMC so you don't even need to worry about that. http://www.generalfanager.com/teams/expansion Edit: Las Vegas will be bad, but it looks like they'll be able to ice a roster that's at least sort of competitive, there will likely be some pretty decent players and prospects left unprotected. For example: one of Vatanen, Fowler, or Lindholm will be unprotected assuming the Ducks can't find a way to jettison Bieksa Jamwad Hilder fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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JawKnee posted:goodbye afternoon I lied about the Ducks, I forgot you can choose to protect 8 skaters total instead of 7 forwards, 3 defense. However, that means if the Ducks protect all three of Lindholm, Vatanen, and Fowler (plus Bieksa), they can only protect 1 more forward since Perry, Getzlaf, and Kesler all have NMC. So they'd lose a good young player like Silfverberg, Rakell, or Pirri. There are a few other teams in similar positions due to the NMC they've got like Chicago, Columbus, Minnesota, and Pittsburgh. Jamwad Hilder fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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Hand Knit posted:I bet we're gonna see some wacky trades as teams try to get around the protection limit. Oh, definitely. I could easily imagine the Ducks giving up Bieksa and a first, and retaining some salary, just to get him off their team. Jamwad Hilder fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jun 23, 2016 |
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grack posted:You shouldn't joke, the Bruins are rather swiftly following the Canucks right down the crapper. ya, but I got to see them win a Cup so I don't give a poo poo
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they should be the KNIGHT HAWKZ
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they should be The Chips
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I just hope they have a really racist logo
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introducing the Las Vegas Knighty Knight, Motherfuckers introducing the Las Vegas "Good Knight Moon" introducing the Las Vegas "Knight by Elie Wiesel"
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those names all suck poo poo except for maybe Desert Knights
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I can tell you're going to be a lot of fun in the hockey threads
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I'm about 90% sure that everyone is just going to refer to them as "The Knights" regardless of whatever retarded rear end descriptor they put in front of it
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by 2033 all team names will be replaced by an emoji
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jokes aside, i'm sure they're gonna load it up with a lot of branded poo poo once they pick a name and all that crap, and it won't look so stupid, but it does look like a mid-tier marriott conference center for now, which, lol
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Ya we joke about MAF a lot but for an expansion team he'd be a very good pick, to be honest
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I want the Bruins to lose McQuaid or Hayes, but I think Vegas is gonna snatch Malcolm Subban away from them and I will be sad.
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I think he means the waived player would still play in the AHL, and if he got called back up he'd be on "loan" so to speak to the original team, but next season they'd play in Vegas
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JawKnee posted:Please please please don't protect Sbisa! Please take Sbisa LV! Not directed at you in particular, but I love that every fan, myself included, is hoping that Las Vegas just willingly takes their garbage players just because they're exposed
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JawKnee posted:they don't have much of a choice with the Canucks to be brutally honest - the team is about 90% garbage Yeah. I'm hoping Vegas takes McQuaid or Hayes off of Boston's hand but I'm pretty sure they're going to take Subban or Colin Miller.
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take me you ANIMAL posted:I mean, they have to expose Gruby and he seems like the most likely to be picked up due to his high backup talent level, most people view him as being able to be a starter, and cheap contract. At least as a backup to some veteran another team exposes that could possibly become their starter. Other than that, I could see the exposed 4th d-man of Orlov or Alzner getting picked up. Not to sure Vegas would bother with even trying to pick a forward from us. Grubauer might get taken because Vegas' GM used to be the GM of the Caps so he's familiar with him, but I think they'll get their two goalies elsewhere. Guys like MAF, Halak, Mason or Neuvirth, maybe Bishop, might be unprotected, and I think they might go for a young, highly regarded prospect with their other pick. I think they're taking Subban from Boston, personally.
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That's true, I think they're required to select 14 forwards, 9 defense, and 3 goalies actually. Does Vegas have an AHL team yet?
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Las Vegas Crap Knights
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they should just not have a name. they can just be "Las Vegas"
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I thought the consensus is that Anaheim is going to lose one of Rakell, Silfverberg, or Fowler unless they make a move. They can't protect everyone due to bad NMCs (lol Bieksa). But it looks like you have Las Vegas taking Megna?
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Anaheim is going to have to expose one of Fowler, Silfverberg, and Rakell unless they make a trade, too.
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Gotta think that's something management has considered. I dont think it'll be a big problem.
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shyduck posted:Fedex Field is also in a godawful location. Supposedly it takes hours on end to get in and out of there on gameday. it's barely accessible by public transportation, to point where it's not even worth it to try and ride the metro out there, which means that everyone has to drive in and it takes hours to park or leave. And to top it off the Redskins loving suck at football. I've been there for concerts before and even that is terrible despite being like 20% as many people as you'd get for a game.
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Yeah, I said it in the other thread but the NFL and the NHL don't really directly compete for viewers/attendees. NFL games are once a week, usually during the day, and NHL games vary. It'd be a different story if Vegas was getting a MLB or NBA team, but I think the Raiders and the Knights should be able to coexist pretty easily.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:If the Oilers protect a 34 year old special teams specialist with one year left on his deal over someone with cheap control and term then Chiarelli is dumber than I think. gee I wonder if the guy who traded both Tyler Seguin and Taylor Hall is a stupid person, hmmmmm
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CBJSprague24 posted:This has probably been discussed, but what are the Golden Knights (Knights?) doing for an AHL team? Is another AHL-ready market going to get a team or are they sprinkling players around the league? I believe the two options they've discussed are loaning their AHL players to other AHL clubs that are nearby or an ECHL partnership. Eventually the AHL will expand. It doesn't cost half a billion dollars (only a paltry 5 million I wanna say) but they also need to find a market for them or build a stadium or something. Edit: here's an article from a few months about it if you're interested: http://thehockeywriters.com/vegas-golden-knights-goal-to-name-ahl-affiliate-this-month/ Apparently my information is all wrong, they might be affiliated with the Chicago Wolves: quote:Today the Wolves are in the final year of a three-year affiliation with the St. Louis Blues. They’ve had relationships with several NHL clubs since joining the AHL in 2001. Chicago was linked to the Atlanta Thrashers for 10 years, through the 2010-11 season. A two-year deal with the Vancouver Canucks followed. Regardless of what transpires with Vegas, it looks as if the Wolves three-year deal with St. Louis will be coming to an end. In November of last year it was reported that the Blues would not be continuing their relationship with Chicago, instead opting to do business with a new expansion franchise located in Missouri. Such a development, should it come to fruition, would of course make things easier for Vegas to finalize and agreement with the Wolves to be its top minor league club. Jamwad Hilder fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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Gallant is a good coach, I think. There were a lot of worse picks out there for your first coach, anyway
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not only do the seasons barely overlap, but NFL games are typically on Sunday afternoons, with maybe one or two games per team on a Monday or Thursday night.
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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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El Gallinero Gros posted:When did The Blackhawks stop using the Wolves? Chicago has used Rockford as long as I can remember. So maybe like 20 years ago? The Wolves were Atlanta's AHL affiliate until the Thrashers relocated, then Vancouver's (because Winnipeg stole theirs), then St. Louis, and now Vegas.
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I have a really hard time seeing a metro area less than 1 million people, even a Canadian one, being able to successfully support a team. Winnipeg has struggles and they're significantly larger than Halifax.
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They have the smallest arena in the league and can't sell out. They lost a team once already.
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I kind of can't believe we're only a few days away from a BRAND NEW NHL team. When Minnesota and Columbus came in I was just a kid so I couldn't appreciate it at all.
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Martytoof posted:So when does this stupid circus of a draft happen? Wednesday, during the award show. It's all a big stupid ruse to get us to pay attention to the NHL awards.
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Not a bad roster overall honestly. Lacking forwards but there's a lot of potential. MAF and the backups could be decent. I think they're gonna flip a few defensemen too.
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