Let's get ... Kraken: The expansion draft game

[Wilbur]

7 minutes ago, cberkas said:

No team made deals with Seattle

I'm not even a huge Wild fan and I still can't forgive them for the trade they made with Vegas that year.  

[SiouxForever]

10 minutes ago, cberkas said:

No team made deals with Seattle

What a bunch of bs. Unreal. Team could have been much better. Still plenty of room in cap space to sign free agents. Who wants to go to Seattle though? Not I. 

[Wilbur]

2 minutes ago, SiouxForever said:

What a bunch of bs. Unreal. Team could have been much better. Still plenty of room in cap space to sign free agents. Who wants to go to Seattle though? Not I. 

I agree.  Definitely confused with some of those selections.  Ohh to be a fly on the wall in those meetings. 

[cberkas]

If Seattle trades away Dunn then they should have just took Tarasenko and flipped him.

[sioux rube]

1 hour ago, SiouxForever said:

What a bunch of bs. Unreal. Team could have been much better. Still plenty of room in cap space to sign free agents. Who wants to go to Seattle though? Not I. 

Definitely a head scratcher. I’d have to assume many trades will happen especially with how much cap space they have like you said 

[farce poobah]

Seems like they favored some familiar Hakstol recruiting traits:

*  Building from the defense out ... Their D corps is pretty darn good.   Giordano, Larsson ... even Soucy who was easy to hate when at UMD.  All very solid. 

* Two way forwards.

*  Character guys, who were Captains (1 at the NHL level) and others in Juniors or college.

* Late bloomers, because you can get those guys for an affordable price.  

I liked a lot of those picks ... perhaps the non-selection of Stecher was a way to avoid the appearance of favoring ex-UND players (which was a criticism at Philly).

Dunn and Gourde were picks that I like among the scheme of guys that haven't had a chance to play a starring role.   

 

The draft on Friday - Saturday will fill in the blanks.   They may get that #1 or #2 center in the draft.

[90siouxfan]

Goalie(s)?

[The Sicatoka]

Well, they went 15F/12D/3G. 

Looks like they believe the "load up on" commodity is D. 

Should be interesting to see what they do over the next 72 hours.  

[Wilbur]

11 hours ago, 90siouxfan said:

Goalie(s)?

Looks to me like they valued a big, quality d corps over goaltending at this point.  I still think they should have taken Kaapo from Minnesota. 

[cberkas]

Pitlick traded to the Flames for a 4th round pick.

I feel the Seattle is just going to to tank for two years then fire Francis, I would have fired Francis after that absolutely garbage expansion draft. 

[sioux rube]

The Seattle Kraken are signing goaltender Philipp Grubauer to a six-year contract worth $5.9 million per season, reports Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.

[The Sicatoka]

26 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

The Seattle Kraken are signing goaltender Philipp Grubauer to a six-year contract worth $5.9 million per season, reports Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.

Holy < bleep > !

Dave Hakstol with an NHL team with an NHL goalie!

[cberkas]

2 hours ago, sioux rube said:

The Seattle Kraken are signing goaltender Philipp Grubauer to a six-year contract worth $5.9 million per season, reports Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.

Feel they over paid.

[cberkas]

Jaden Schwartz signs with Seattle 5.5x5

wish UND would have got him in college. Wonder if he’ll wear his sisters number like I did with the Blues

[cberkas]

Seattle traded back Vanecek to the Capitals for a 2nd round pick.

Probably could have got more for him.

Still think Seattle should have taken Kahkonen since he's waver exempt.