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2021 Trade Deadline and Roster Moves
alta:
trade deadline coming up, I see absolutely no reason to change anything now....
https://novacapsfans.com/2021/03/18/capitals-trade-tiers-leading-up-to-the-nhl-trade-deadline/
BlackIce:
FWIW, the trade deadline is April 12 at 3 pm (I presume EDT).
The Caps have no salary cap room. Bringing in a player requires jettisoning equal salary. Also, any moves have to be assessed in light of the effect on the upcoming expansion draft.
richkrt99:
The expansion draft is unfair to good teams who have built their teams up over the last several seasons....especially those with young talent. You just can't protect enough guys.
I know the NHL was trying to make the expansion teams competitive, but they went overboard.
1/2 of the current teams in the NHL could do better with a draft like that than they could with their current roster.
The fact that Vegas, as a 1st year expansion team was able to build a team strong enough to make it to the SC finals tells a lot. I don't mind them trying to make it competitive, but they should not get THAT much of a jump on the rest of the league. You want an expansion team....you got to suck it up a few years.
BlackIce:
--- Quote from: richkrt99 on Thursday March 18, 2021, 09:04:36 PM Eastern ---The expansion draft is unfair to good teams who have built their teams up over the last several seasons....especially those with young talent. You just can't protect enough guys.
I know the NHL was trying to make the expansion teams competitive, but they went overboard.
1/2 of the current teams in the NHL could do better with a draft like that than they could with their current roster.
The fact that Vegas, as a 1st year expansion team was able to build a team strong enough to make it to the SC finals tells a lot. I don't mind them trying to make it competitive, but they should not get THAT much of a jump on the rest of the league. You want an expansion team....you got to suck it up a few years.
--- End quote ---
Of course, a large part of the reason for Vegas' early success was the absolute brilliance of the GM, George McPhee. Why can't we get front office leadership like that?
Oh, wait .....
Of course, the problem is that, having given Vegas a chance to form a team under a given set of rules, the NHL could hardly make the rules less accommodating for the upcoming draft, especially with it occurring only a few years after the previous one. Like it or not, these two expansions are too closely linked to try to rejigger the rules. But even so, we'll see if Seattle is able to make as much hay from their draft as McPhee/Vegas was able to make from theirs. It could be that the other teams will be able to learn something from the Vegas draft experience and will figure out ways to protect themselves better.
To be honest, I share your concern more about the initial strength of the expansion team than the differential harm to better-run, higher-quality teams who can't protect everyone. Even the best-run and potentially "most harmed" franchises still lose only one player.
alta:
interesting move...
https://novacapsfans.com/2021/03/21/capitals-re-sign-trevor-van-riemsdyk-to-two-year-contract-extension-worth-1-9-million/
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