Speculation: Building the Las Vegas squad using CapFriendly's tool

[Skobel24]

My best effort...

C. Wilson - Killorn - Silfverberg
Eller - Stajan - Jurco
Jaskin - Cousins - Armia
B. McGinn - Lander - J. Ward
B.Gaunce
De La Rose, Leipsic, H. Samuelsson

Gorges - Dumba
Methot - I. Cole
Klein - De Haan
Merrill - Petrovic
Pokka, Lindell, Forbort

Pickard
M. Subban
Dansk

I noticed you have Vegas taking Armia. Any guess as to who the Jets protect?

 

[Empoleon8771]

I don't think LV will take MAF.

PIT are in a ****** situation with two goalies making big dollars.

Why would any GM give Rutherford a hand out of his own hole without any type of compensation.

Maybe PIT does something like package Rust + MAF?

So is having Fleury as their starter all of a sudden not compensation? What the hell? Getting Fleury for cheap should be the compensation when someone is trading for Fleury, he's not Clarkson.

 

[Oddbob]

Yeah the odds that Detroit leaves Andreas Athanasiou unprotected is like slim to none. Holland is pretty high on him don't see him leaving him unprotected i think one of Tatar or Nyquist will be dealt for D upgrade so there should be a slot for AA.

Absolutely hilarious that anyone thinks Athanasiou isn't a guaranteed protected player.

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Lot of contradictory opinions in this thread but one thing's for sure, this team's gonna be terrible.

 

[Some Other Flame]

going by Capfriendly's "protect" list: (and no UFA signings)

Dano - Killorn - Silfverberg
Raffl - Wilson - Fast
Athanasiou - Eller - Roussel
Jaskin - Byron - Ferland
Martinook

both Killorn and Wilson will have to play center..

Methot - Brodin/Scadella (will 99.9% be Scandella, anywho i'd take either over Dumba, even with the lack of RD)
De Haan - Petrovic
Davidson - McCabe
Pokka

Pickard
Korpisalo
Subban

could have added a bunch of extras/prospects aswell

Capfriendly's quick protect has the Flames protecting Bouma/Shinkaruk/Jokipakka over Ferland/Brouwer/Brodie.

It's definitely got some bugs to work out

 

[TOGuy14]

Capfriendly's quick protect has the Flames protecting Bouma/Shinkaruk/Jokipakka over Ferland/Brouwer/Brodie.

It's definitely got some bugs to work out

It seems to struggle most with the defence.

I did a quick protect and it left exposted:

Barrie, Faulk, Brodie, Jack Johnson, Dumba, Ellis.

Pretty sure if LV had a d core like that in their first year they wouldn't care who their forwards were.

Also Gibson was left exposed

 

[serp]

Capfriendly's quick protect has the Flames protecting Bouma/Shinkaruk/Jokipakka over Ferland/Brouwer/Brodie.

It's definitely got some bugs to work out

Quick protect protects even UFA's who in many cases don't look like they'd be re-signed .

 

[Jets]

I noticed you have Vegas taking Armia. Any guess as to who the Jets protect?

As of now it's pretty well understood jets fans say Wheeler, Scheifele, Little, Perreault, Buff, Myers, Trouba, Enstrom, Hellebuyck

 

[uncleben]

It seems to struggle most with the defence.

I did a quick protect and it left exposted:

Barrie, Faulk, Brodie, Jack Johnson, Dumba, Ellis.

Pretty sure if LV had a d core like that in their first year they wouldn't care who their forwards were.

Also Gibson was left exposed

A lot of those are because of exposure requirements though.

For example, Barrie has to be exposed because Johnson and Beauchemin have NMC, and COL needs to expose a defenseman with a 2017-18 contract - none of Tyutin, Gelinas, Zadorov, Siemens, Wiercioch, Corbett, Stanton, or Clark have that, whereas Barrie does.

 

[Shootertooter]

You have Brown as a second line wing. Why would Vegas do LA a favor like that

Shed cap?

 

[thadd]

I'm pretty sure that they'll be able to grab Brandon Davidson in the expansion draft and I think he easily slips into that top 6 there.

 

[Jonas1235]

TSN did a segment yesterday on the expansion draft, I learned that teams need to have 3 forwards, 1 Defense and a 1 Goalie to expose with 2017 contract.

MTL has to give Montoya an extension or sign another goalie that makes the cut or Price will be exposed.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Absolutely hilarious that anyone thinks Athanasiou isn't a guaranteed protected player.

Really i see both Athanasiou and Mantha being protected, Unless Holland plans on trading one of them for an upgrade on D along with one of Nyquist/Tatar. AA would be traded before he's left unprotected.

 

[Paradise*]

As of now it's pretty well understood jets fans say Wheeler, Scheifele, Little, Perreault, Buff, Myers, Trouba, Enstrom, Hellebuyck

I wouldn't be so sure about Perreault.

I've seen a lot Jets posters who prefer Armia. I'd even consider Dano over Perreault. More expensive and fragile

 

[Aceboogie]

Ill wait till the end of season to say who will be protected in the draft. So much can change in remaining 60 games

For example for the Oilers if you were to ask me start last season if Davidson would be protected I would have laughed as he was an AHLer, end of season he was near top priority to protect. Now this season I would have laughed if you said Benning would make Davidson expendable as still chuckle at that. But who knows, if after next 60 games Benning progesses well and keeps it up, maybe that becomes true

Another example is Pitlick. I wasnt even sure hed get a QO this year. Now he has 6 goals and a staple in bottom 6. Does he take a protection spot if he keeps it up?

I am sure every team has those questions and much tougher options

 

[TT1]

Capfriendly's quick protect has the Flames protecting Bouma/Shinkaruk/Jokipakka over Ferland/Brouwer/Brodie.

It's definitely got some bugs to work out

All 3 of those guys were available, Brodie wasn't. Don't remember if Brouwer was.

It seems to struggle most with the defence.

I did a quick protect and it left exposted:

Barrie, Faulk, Brodie, Jack Johnson, Dumba, Ellis.

Pretty sure if LV had a d core like that in their first year they wouldn't care who their forwards were.

Also Gibson was left exposed

I saw JJ, Dumba and Scandella (meaning Minny will protect Spurgeon/Brodin/Suter). None of those other Dmen tho. I saw Zadorov for Colorado. The list they gave me was pretty reasonable tbh, i saw Matt Murray being available too but there's obviously no chance that Pittsburgh lets that happen. I saw Silfverberg, Cogliano and Manson for Anaheim.. by far the highest quality of players among any of the teams.

 

[Djp]

Lot of contradictory opinions in this thread but one thing's for sure, this team's gonna be terrible.

Are they a playoff team ....no

Terrible....no


If they do this right they should have a respectable team.

Teams only protecting 3 Dmen will have 1 of their top 4 exposed. It could be an older top pair exposed over the younger player.

With forwards you are looking at some 2nd/3rd line players exposed with the possibility of some younger talented players who have been slow to mature exposed.

In year one they are probably in the bottom 5 unless they actually go for high contract older players and could possibly compete.


The other option they could go is take some of these vet players with high contracts and have a respectable top 6 (along with 1-2 Ufa signings). Sane with defense maybe they take the experience 30 and older vet with 2 yrs left on their contract.

With this they can create a respectable top 8 forwards, top 4 Dmen, and starting goalie (MAF). That's just 13 players....17 other teams to pick from.. From those teams they target some of the waiver exempt players and make deals for prospects/picks to build a pipeline of futures.

Maybe as part of deals not to take player X on a team, they instead get y snd z who are both good pieces for short term and long term.

 

[Pongs21]

Did quick protect - I highly doubt quite a few of these players will be left unprotected.. Interesting results, especially on the back end.

Killorn Cammalleri Stone
Boedker Helm Silfverberg
Yakapov Lowry Read
Komarov Karlsson Pirri

Brodie Faulk
McNabb Barrie
Orlov Ellis

Murray
Subban
Ullmark

Extras:
Gaunce
Graovac
Pulock
Reinhart
Pateryn
Johns

 

[TT1]

So Button has Brodin available, Perreault/Silf/Mantha aswell. I don't know why he'd pick Jarnkrok (who's a fine player) over Wilson tho, maybe he thinks Wilson is getting protected?

 

[yideboit]

Anyone know how no move / no trade clauses work in the expansion draft?

 

[Engineer]

It seems to struggle most with the defence.

I did a quick protect and it left exposted:

Barrie, Faulk, Brodie, Jack Johnson, Dumba, Ellis.

Pretty sure if LV had a d core like that in their first year they wouldn't care who their forwards were.

Also Gibson was left exposed

Well it is based on crowd sourced popularity, so it's the users that are struggling

 

[Soundgarden]

So Button has Brodin available, Perreault/Silf/Mantha aswell. I don't know why he'd pick Jarnkrok (who's a fine player) over Wilson tho, maybe he thinks Wilson is getting protected?

Jarnkrok makes $2mil for the next six years, has a high IQ and can play all four lines. I'm hoping Vegas takes Wilson over him if he isn't the last protected forward.

 

[BigHabs]

Dano Killorn Silfverberg
Jaskin Wilson Stempniak
Zucker Eller Pirri
Nolan Holland Roussel

ex. Riley Sheahan, Riley Nash, Markus Granlund, Nicolas Deslauriers



Johnson Dillon
Emelin Wideman
Zadorov Petrovic

ex. Ben Lovejoy, Trevor Van Riemsdyk, Brandon Davidson, Chris Wideman, Kevin Connauton




Fleury
Neuvirth

ex. Thomas Greiss


PROJECTED CAP HIT : $52,931,310

PROJECTED CAP SPACE : $20,068,690

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Anyone know how no move / no trade clauses work in the expansion draft?

I know player with NMC must be protected and players with NTC can be left unprotected but some like MAF have modified NTC in their contracts not sure how that goes.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

So Button has Brodin available, Perreault/Silf/Mantha aswell. I don't know why he'd pick Jarnkrok (who's a fine player) over Wilson tho, maybe he thinks Wilson is getting protected?

I seriously doubt that Ken Holland leaves Anthony Mantha unprotected, I would be totally shocked i would imagine Mantha would be traded as part of a package deal for an upgrade on a top 4 RHD/LHD before he was left unprotected.