Speculation: Roster Building Thread DCLXXIX: Countdown to the draft (and the other draft)

[mouser]

After running a quick mock, I'm thinking this will be Vegas's depth chart pre-trades

J. Marchessault / V. Shipaychov / J. Neal
M. Grabner / T. Plekanec / C. Soderberg
J. Nordstrom / M. Kruger / T. Brouwer
C. Eakin / W. Karlsson / J. Weal
K. Rychel / A. Burmistrov


M. Methot / S. Vatanen
C. DeHaan / M. Dumba
T. Enstrom / B. McNabb
L. Sbisa / Z. Bogosian
B. Dillon / C. Miller
C. Gunnarsson / J. Merill


M. Fleury
P. Mrazek
P. Grubauer

They are going to take defensemen and flip them for some more offensive fire power IMO.

Have to keep the 30 players Vegas selects in the expansion draft under the $73m cap.

 

[TheTakedown]

Would Brannstrom be NHL ready? I've heard otherwise. Unless you meant Liljegren

He's close. Watch his WJC highlights. Guy is VERY smart wit the puck.

Lilgeren would be ready too

 

[HonestGabe]

He's close. Watch his WJC highlights. Guy is VERY smart wit the puck.

Lilgeren would be ready too

Oh I know Brannstrom is good. In fact, he is the guy I want the Rangers to take. Just wasn't sure if he had the talent to step in right away on an NHL blueline.

 

[Ghost of jas]

He's close. Watch his WJC highlights. Guy is VERY smart wit the puck.

Lilgeren would be ready too

If you were using my post as template, Liljegren would be my pick at 7 and Strome would be the center coming back. And I've been told Domi is a winger.

 

[Thirty One]

McPhee is smart as balls

Wow, that smart?

 

[Trxjw]

Or it could just be Victor Rask and their first....

Doesn't help their cap situation. The premise is that they need to reach the cap floor.

 

[Griffinbw]

Doesn't help their cap situation. The premise is that they need to reach the cap floor.

Nash then?

Send Marc to reunite with Jordan?

 

[Trxjw]

Nash then?

Send Marc to reunite with Jordan?

Doubt Nash wants to go there, and they likely have no use for Staal.

 

[Thirty One]

Doubt Nash wants to go there, and they likely have no use for Staal.

I also doubt Staal wants to go there.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

I don't necessarily look at Stepan and say he has physically lost a step, but for whatever reason mentally he was not as sharp of a player as he was. This isn't a kneejerk comment based on his playoffs. I don't think that is the motivation for nyr to move him, I think this is simply about making a core shift and GMJG putting his shape on this team

I love it when people judge a player's mental state based on what they see on TV

 

[TheBPA]

Sure will be interesting to see what the return for Stepan is, if he is traded.

If other GMs around the league are valuing him based on his playoff performance this year, then I hope we keep him.

 

[Tawnos]

I love it when people judge a player's mental state based on what they see on TV

When youve watched every game the player has played in the NHL for 6 prior seasons, you can tell when something is off with a player. It could be anything causing it, really, but he definitely wasnt as sharp this year. I think it was a blip. They happen.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

Honestly, the NHL is so bungling this expansion draft.

No one CARES about NHL award shows – or any sport's award show, for that matter. And by interspersing the picks between, you make it even MORE painful. You're not going to get me to watch a super-quick show, so you'd best believe I'll not be watching a longer one.

Now, if they were to do the expansion draft as it's OWN program, say over the space of an hour... that I'd watch.

 

[silverfish]

Honestly, the NHL is so bungling this expansion draft.

No one CARES about NHL award shows – or any sport's award show, for that matter. And by interspersing the picks between, you make it even MORE painful. You're not going to get me to watch a super-quick show, so you'd best believe I'll not be watching a longer one.

Now, if they were to do the expansion draft as it's OWN program, say over the space of an hour... that I'd watch.

It's the only way to get people to watch the NHL awards.

 

[kovazub94]

Honestly, the NHL is so bungling this expansion draft.

No one CARES about NHL award shows – or any sport's award show, for that matter. And by interspersing the picks between, you make it even MORE painful. You're not going to get me to watch a super-quick show, so you'd best believe I'll not be watching a longer one.

Now, if they were to do the expansion draft as it's OWN program, say over the space of an hour... that I'd watch.

Why can't you think of it as watch the expansion draft with a few awards thrown-in here and there.

 

[FJB]

I hate expansion drafts, but I'm also annoyed by there being an odd number of teams in the league.

 

[Thirty One]

I hate expansion drafts, but I'm also annoyed by there being an odd number of teams in the league.

Why?

 

[TheTakedown]

I hate expansion drafts, but I'm also annoyed by there being an odd number of teams in the league.

Why?

 

[FJB]

Why?

I prefer even numbers and some sort of symmetry, plus it's an 82 game season.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

It's the only way to get people to watch the NHL awards.

Except I'm still not watching – and if they had divided it into two events, I would have at least watched one.

Why can't you think of it as watch the expansion draft with a few awards thrown-in here and there.

AAAAAAGH! My eyes!

You know it's going to be like 90% awards and the associated glad-handing, speeches, and commentary. And only 10% the expansion picks.

I just get the sense that the NHL thinks that they ought to be able to get some kind of viewership like the Oscars/Emmys/Tonys – and what they don't realize is that in entertainment the awards ARE the competition; in sports, they're an afterthought (except for the trophy awarded at the end of the actual championship).

 

[Thirty One]

I prefer even numbers and some sort of symmetry, plus it's an 82 game season.

Well the conferences will be more symmetrical than they were last year (Don't get me started on THAT)

 

[Thirty One]

You know it's going to be like 90% awards and the associated glad-handing, speeches, and commentary. And only 90% the expansion picks.

And the other 30% will be bad jokes.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

And the other 30% will be bad jokes.

TFW you make a stupid error in your post and Thirty One catches it before you have a chance to edit...

 

[Thirty One]

TFW you make a stupid error in your post and Thirty One catches it before you have a chance to edit...

That guy is a plague upon these forums.

 

[Doctyl]

That guy is a plague upon these forums.

Don't give him that much credit.