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Playoffs around the league for 2018
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Monday May 21, 2018, 11:49:08 AM Eastern ---or Brayden McnNabb over Marion Gaborik or Jerome Iginla?
or Shelmco over Joe Thornton, only to trade him for a pick the next day
And yes GMBetaMale utterly fucked this expansion draft up. Yeah, NMC provided, leave Nisky and Schmidt, and if your just gonna extend Bura, and Eller during the season, why not do so before the draft so the cap hits tougher. ..
Most of all, how GMBetaMale wouldn't know or figure out what his former boss would do, is simply inexcusable
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Vegas had so many options it was pretty hard to screw it up. Then you add all the deals teams made to protect Vegas from selecting certain players and Vegas ended up with a ton if draft pick as well. I'm sure Vegas had three 1st round picks and two 2 and round picks. Yes this team has overachieved but if Mcphee failed with these expansion rules he should be out as GM forever. This was a no lose scenario because the options were so many.
And yes our GM failed with our protected list. He could have gone 4 dmen and 4 forwards and left 3 of these 4 available, Wilson, Burakovsky, Eller or Johansson. Not sure which oibe if them would have been protected. Our GM is an idiot so he likely would have protected Burakovsky. I would have protected Wilson. We could have gone that route. We were only going to lose one of them and a forward is easier to replace than a dman. We ended up losing Johansson anyway. So why protect him.
We went with the other option 3 dmen and 7 forwards which moist teams did. Which is fine but like DC said why keep a 31 year old with a high cap hit for a 26 year old that was coming into his own. If Niskanen was left unprotected there ius no guarantee Vegas would have taken him because of the cap hit. I'm not even a big Nate Schmidt fan but you could see last year, especially in the playoffs that he was going to be a good dman.
Anyway the point is that pretty much every team lost a decent player in that expansion draft. It was way too easy.
Other expansion drafts had fewer options to choose from for several reasons. First reason being the protected lists were smaller than other years. 2nd reason there are now more teams in the league giving the expansion franchise more to choose from. 3rd some expansion drafts had more than one team entering the league that same season. There are probably other reasons too.
The rules made it pretty easy for Vegas to build a pretty decent team.
Beaglefan2:
I have set aside my bias against McPhee and have really loved watching Vegas - mostly because they have Schmidt. When we lost him, I said congratulations to him because he escaped from our quagmire and had a better chance to win a Cup in Vegas. I certainly didn't think it would be this year though!
If we manage to make it to the Finals, it will be bittersweet to watch Schmidt play against us. He is a special player and will be for a long time. I think our fanbase will then realize what a massive screwup it was to let him go.
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