>Vegas will take one player — no more, or no less — from each existing team. >They must select at least 14 forwards, nine defensemen and three goalies. >20 of the 30 players must be under contract in 2017-18. >The cap hit of all players selected in the Expansion Draft must be somewhere between $43.8 million and $73 million.
Daniel Myers
Marc-Andre Fleury wil be the face of the new franchise.
Sebastian Thomas
>making a thread almost 8 hours prior when /hoc/ is already dead For what purpose?
Tyler Walker
PRE-DRAFT THREAD
Blake Rodriguez
sexy draft's
Lincoln Sanchez
Do golden knights take golden showers?
Carson Morales
Please don't take neal
Thomas Baker
So is this the /hoc/ shitposting thread?
Jaxson Gray
>rags
Kayden Hughes
Screencap this
Knights take Aberg, not Neal
Matthew Rivera
>2011 entry draft >commercial break >PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT
Julian Kelly
HE WANTS THE C
Anthony Kelly
>tfw one of them will have to go
Jacob Gutierrez
and the D
Dylan Taylor
>making your goaler the captain shiggy diggy
Easton Nguyen
can they pass????????????????????
some of the unprotected are REALLY mediocre, or maybe they want to fill their AHL roster
Benjamin Clark
Please be kind to him vegas.
Nolan King
>team >protected players >who you want to lose >who you'll probably lose
Charles Scott
>tfw you could've won the cup if your GM made a move for someone better than Roman Polak
Daniel King
you could have traded for crosgod himself and the laffs still would have lost
Kevin Jenkins
he's talking about the shorks you retard
and don't talk shit about my nigger Polak, he is a warrior and a gentleman
Hudson Brooks
No they can't pass, but like you said, they'll need some minor league players. They're not obligated to offer a contract to any unprotected pending UFA (or RFA) that they select, so that would be like taking a pass, in essence.
Gabriel Jones
How does this work? They jusy steal 1 player any kind they want from each team?
Noah Robinson
Yeah, they're going to have Crosby, Ovechkin, and Kane on the same line this team is going to be ridiculous.
Asher Lewis
every team has protected lists, rookies/sophomores are exempt and you can arrange a deal with vegas so they skip/take particular players also vegas has to comply to several obligations when picking from each team >take best player avaiblable >immediately flip him for prospects and picks no one needs 30 nhl players anyway
Jordan Morgan
>Wings >Abdelkader, Athanasiou, Mantha, Nielsen, Nyquist, Tatar, Zetterberg, DeKeyser, Green, Jensen, Howard >would love to lose Ericsson, but that will never ever happen. Of realistic choices, I'd like to ditch Helm. >Vegas will pick Mrazek and flip him for a pick+prospect that could have just gone to the Wings if Holland weren't functionally retarded.
Benjamin Torres
>tfw Vegas will have a better team than >yours
Ayden Gomez
Hey guys I just came from r/hockey who are my Preds going to be taking?
Kevin Nguyen
wait, eleven protected players?
I need to read the rules again
Michael Martin
waste of fucking quints.
Wyatt Campbell
And I need to check out those quints. Damn son.
Luis Carter
>rags >Nash, Stepan, Zucc, Zibanejad, Miller, Kreids, Hayes, McDonagh, Holden, Staal, and Hank >Puempel, Pirri, any of the relatively unknown guys >Grabner, Raanta, Lindberg, Fast
Brody Morris
Hongcouver?
Gavin Wood
Fuck Vegas, will be a shit franchise with no fans and all the seats in the arena will be encrusted with hooker STDs
Liam Rodriguez
literally /ourguys/
Nolan Cooper
WHO WILL BE VEGAS' CAPTAIN?
Carter Sullivan
Neal if he doesn't get traded tomorrow
Aaron Perez
enstrom
William Nguyen
guess none, they might go with a few As
Charles Allen
Marc Methot
Grayson Allen
Eric "60 points guaranteed" Staal
Ayden Torres
They are getting Haula from the Mild not Staal, pay attention to news
Easton Campbell
Hossas conditions are extremely convenient
Oliver Davis
So this is pretty much going to be the best expansion team of all time right? Not including the addition of WHA teams to the NHL since that was just a merger of already existing teams
Asher Moore
well yeah that's litearlly the idea behind these faggot rules, they want them to start off as at least average
Sebastian Gutierrez
what makes it great? just because this time there are 30 teams to draw from instead of 28 like last time?
Cooper Hill
Quints are awesome
Looks like you need to read the rules again, too
Jace Thompson
the amount of solid players who can't be protected
in the previous expansions you could only get your hands on literal garbage
Hudson Hall
>trades not announced until tomorrow
Oh boy, can't wait for 30 instances of
>vegas takes clayton Stoner despite better players being available but we can't tell you why
Xavier Baker
-There's only 1 team entering the league this expansion, no other competition for players -Teams can protect fewer players than they could in other expansions -There's a salary cap so they aren't starting from total ground 0 in an untested market with (presumably) little cash reserves, they aren't having to compete with 100mil juggernauts, every team is confined to 75mil -there's 5 more teams to pick from as opposed to the 2000 expansion, since nashville and atlanta were exempt from that one
Matthew Robinson
Zero chance that Methot stays on Vegas' roster. He's getting traded to Pittsburgh or Toronto
Aiden Campbell
what do you mean "we cant tell you why"
Its pretty much a draft pick in every instance
Jonathan Torres
at least you've heard the name clayton stoner before
@StapeNewsday No word on who #Isles are losing in expansion draft tonight, but my understanding is it's not someone who saw regular NHL time last season.
Kevin Lee
Arizona Diamondbacks. Second best record in the NL in their second season and won the World Series in their 4th.
Alexander Bailey
The system is set up well enough that in theory it could be a playoff team, but they're making so many protection trades and trades with the players they're taking that it'll be an average rebuilding team that drafts like 5th overall next summer.
Chase Thompson
the whole side deal thing is probably a hot mess, so announcing every trade during the ceremoney would be pretty pointless though
Ethan Stewart
So? That's the only reason to watch this shit. I'm just going to wait until tomorrow to care since they removed the only exciting part
Gavin Price
Its hot as fuck here today.
Jackson Fisher
It wouldn't be hard.
>in exchange for agreeing to claim stoner the vegas knights receive shea theodore
Nolan Garcia
It would be better to explain it instead of announcing players who aren't actually on the team.
Should have been a separate broadcast event like the draft lottery where they explicitly state who will be going to Vegas and not just paperwork picks.
Jackson Evans
there's a lot more to it, e.g. flipping players for picks etc. yeah merging it with the awards ceremoney is pretty stupid in the first place
Hunter Perez
Nothing will beat the diamondbacks and Mets as expansion teams though.
Blake James
>he gets excited over a draft
Reading a list of the picks/deals after is what you should be doing, who wants to watch that boring shit?
Chase Murphy
I could see Toronto (which would be hilarious if you're not a SNES fan), but I find it very hard to believe Rutherford would want to bring Methot into Sid's locker room after what happened last season.
Pens might trade for a different defenseman from LV though.
Kevin Evans
>after what happened last season that shit has been happening their entire careers
Tyler Adams
Who the fuck thought Golden Knights would be a good name and that army looking uniforms would be a cool design? Las Vegas has the potential for so many fire names and they picked the fucking Golden Knights?
This youth team we used to play from vegas had much better jerseys and name, kek. Can't find the sweaters but you get the gist.
Jordan Stewart
Yeah, but I guess I was suggesting that they could have let bygones be bygones before that slash. I know that sort of play happens all the time, but I know I'd find it a lot harder to work alongside a guy after he hacked off part of my finger, intentionally or not. Again, not commenting on the play itself, just that the result of it might make it awkward to bring that particular player into the locker room.
William Peterson
I dont think anyone did, its just they weren't allowed to use anything remotely gambling related. Its like they just said "fuck it we'll just call ourselves the knights" after hours/days of brainstorming ideas that the NHL would actually allow
>who you want to lose Rozsival which wont happen, and pokka because its better than losing TVR
>who you'll probably lose TVR
Chase Martinez
...
Connor Diaz
i agree that they cant be in the same locker room together, but i highly doubt the finger amputation was the straw that broke the camels back
Juan Myers
>not naming them the Vegas Outlaws >not naming them the Vegas Vipers >not naming them the Vegas Blades >not naming them the Nevada Sands
Landon Thompson
All of those names but the first one are garbage
Gavin Torres
When do jerseys go up for sale?
Samuel Green
who is the biggest name player that unprotected in the draft?
Flower?
Evan Brooks
...
Carter Long
So what are the odds that all the picks leak early?
Nolan Ward
100%
Jonathan Bennett
if neal is taken by the vegas regretful street walkers do the preds have any chance at going back to the SCF?
Cameron Cruz
please no bully
Adrian Garcia
They had no chance of going back anyways. No way does finnish goaltending actually play well for three playoff rounds again.
Caleb Torres
>+pick from Pongs to pick MAF >+Tucchi + Haula to not pick Dumbass >+Reilly to pick Marchassault instead of Demers >+Theodore to pick Stoner instead of meme Anachaim d guys >+1st to pick W.Karlsson >+Grabovski +1st to pick Mayfield >+prospect to pick Garrison over Koekkekekek >+Kreuger to pick TVR >+Emelin taken to be traded for a 2nd >+Lindberg >+Neal taken to be traded for a 1st >+Methot taken to be traded for a 1st + PROSPECT >+Leipsic >Shipachov signed as a UFA
Vegas holds all the aces
Christian Kelly
>+Reilly to pick Marchassault instead of Demers how does this make any sense? they purposefully left Marchessault unprotected
Sebastian Reed
>>+pick from Pongs to pick MAF >>+Tucchi + Haula to not pick Dumbass >>+Reilly to pick Marchassault instead of Demers >>+Theodore to pick Stoner instead of meme Anachaim d guys >>+1st to pick W.Karlsson >>+Grabovski +1st to pick Mayfield >>+prospect to pick Garrison over Koekkekekek >>+Kreuger to pick TVR >>+Emelin taken to be traded for a 2nd >>+Lindberg >>+Neal taken to be traded for a 1st >>+Methot taken to be traded for a 1st + PROSPECT >>+Leipsic >+1st to pick Dano over Enstrom >+McNabb >+Eakin >+Nosek >>Shipachov signed as a UFA
Nicholas Williams
>+1st to pick Dano over Enstrom the other way round and not worth a 1st
also related to that other discussion
Alexander Cooper
Has there ever been a first overall pick with as little influence on the league as this man?
Nowhere near elite, nowhere near shit. It's dumbfounding.
Ryan Hill
way better than chris phillips
Wyatt Rodriguez
Chris Phillips was a solid dman for Ottawa for years. Not first overall quality, but still solid. Especially since Phillips is still one of the best players in that shitty 1996 draft.
Julian Hernandez
Man Avs sure fucked up that one. Jordan Staal went as #2, Toews #3, Bäckis #4 and Kessel as #5.
Nicholas Reyes
Who
Ryan Evans
sure, not disputing that
EJ's a better 1st OV though, maybe could have been elite if he hadn't fucked his leg golfing when he was 20
Leo Jackson
Roman Hamrlik
Josiah Smith
He was originally drafted by Blues
Jordan Ortiz
Back2reddit
Camden Bailey
>golfing he was racing golf carts down hills while drunk
Adrian Turner
How many hours till the Expansion draft?
Gonna watch it desu
Also post NHL 18 Covers
Jack Martin
Darren Dreger @DarrenDreger Unsure who the Winnipeg Jets are losing in expansion, but I believe the Jets made a deal with VGK to not take veteran Toby Enstrom. 12:54 PM · Jun 21, 2017
Thank fuck, their D is shit enough as is
David Garcia
Jews jewing jews. They'll pull a ruse
Gavin Edwards
>giving >yous to obvious bait am I being rused or r u dum