Twilight Sparkle Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, Smashian Kassian said: will Im still interested to watch tonight incase there are some rabbits in the hat. same. I'm pretty stoked. didn't care at all for Vegas but I'm happy for Seattle. much more of a hockey town 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken. Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 4 hours ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: There we go. Were keeping Big Mac! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, DownUndaCanuck said: Missing an entire 1st line and starting goalie but the defence is solid. Surely with all that cap there'll be some UFA signings/trades in-coming. In net Driedger had a good season but limited experience, Vanecek has even less and Daccord hasn't played much at all and wasn't great. They really lack a true starter and would be very risky going in with a Driedger-Vanecek combo. Rask would be very interesting... Rask is having surgery and wants to go back to Boston after. There's Freddie Anderson who might be a steal. But maybe they stick it to Colorado and go big on Grubauer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said: I am a little surprised that they didn't take Holtby over Lind. There isn't a veteran starter with those 3 picks and Holtby may have been a good guy to have around. Or flip him at the draft. Calgary classless as usual with losing their captain Selecting Holtby doesn't solve that problem so it's easy to see why they didn't want a poor backup goalie that is a 4 million cap hit. Edited July 21, 2021 by NewbieCanuckFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 1 minute ago, NewbieCanuckFan said: Selecting Holtby doesn't solve that problem so it's easy to see why they didn't want a poor backup goalie that is a 4 million cap hit. yeah now I'm thinking Anderson or Grubauer. Man would that ever throw a wrench into Colorado's plans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKSR Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 20 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said: So here is Seattle's depth chart so far: Tanev Gourde Eberle Quenneville McCann Donskoi Twarynski Jarnkrok Appleton Blackwell Pitlick True Geekie Bastian Lind Giordano Larsson Dunn Borgen Soucy Stecher ?? Olesiak Fleury Lauzon Fleury MacDermid Bayreuther Driedger Vanecek Daccord Wow. Some of these guys will be playing in the AHL next year. Seattle has approximately $30M in cap space to spend. They could very well sign Dougie Hamilton, Landeskog, Suter and Schwartz. Then draft Matt Beniers who is probably NHL ready. Hamilton @ $8.5M Landeskog @ $7.5M Schwartz @ $5.75M Suter @ $4.5M All of a sudden this is what it looks like: McCann Landeskog Schwartz Tanev Gourde Eberle Lind Beniers Donskoi Quenneville Jarnkrok Appleton Suter Hamilton Giordano Larsson Oleksiak Stecher Soucy Fleury Lauzon Fleury MacDermid Driedger Vanecek Daccord Bottomline is there is WAY more to come. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, vinny_in_vancouver said: Now that we know who they've picked, I guess the only thing to look forward to for today is... seeing which Seattle celebrity gets to pronounce, I mean announce, a pick. Maybe Lynch announces Lind? Although I would prefer seeing him possibly butcher Jarnkrok, Gourde, Bayreuther, Daccord, Vanecek... wait a second, I'm seeing a pattern here. Did the Krakheads pick these guys based on the difficulty of remembering and pronouncing their last names? Would love to hear Gary Payton say, "and the next pick is some guy named True. For real?" I'm just here so I don't get Lind. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EternalCanuckFan Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, Jimmy McGill said: yeah now I'm thinking Anderson or Grubauer. Man would that ever throw a wrench into Colorado's plans. Maybe it would make COL interested in Holtby! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kragar Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 14 minutes ago, DownUndaCanuck said: Daccord hasn't played much at all and wasn't great. Agreed. He is only... ok. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Did Calgary and Edmonton give up the best players? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post -SN- Posted July 21, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2021 1 minute ago, DeNiro said: Did Calgary and Edmonton give up the best players? Hilariously so. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternalCanuckFan Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 5 minutes ago, HKSR said: Seattle has approximately $30M in cap space to spend. They could very well sign Dougie Hamilton, Landeskog, Suter and Schwartz. Then draft Matt Beniers who is probably NHL ready. Hamilton @ $8.5M Landeskog @ $7.5M Schwartz @ $5.75M Suter @ $4.5M All of a sudden this is what it looks like: McCann Landeskog Schwartz Tanev Gourde Eberle Lind Beniers Donskoi Quenneville Jarnkrok Appleton Suter Hamilton Giordano Larsson Oleksiak Stecher Soucy Fleury Lauzon Fleury MacDermid Driedger Vanecek Daccord Bottomline is there is WAY more to come. I can see this happening but the major risk with this is if those UFAs don't sign with them. Seattle has had a quite a few days to figure out whether they can come to terms with those UFAs (without signing them and burning their expansion pick), so I suppose if this is their plan and these are their strong examples of their targets, then they are confident that those guys will be under contract. If they end up not signing even one or two of those guys however, then that roster is still quite thin. I think it's pretty risky but, of course, they should have a far better read on how likely they are to actually sign any of the key UFAs that interest them. Keeping in mind waivers, I would think that at least one of the D they picked up will be flipped. One take I saw on Twitter is that given all the reports so far basically claiming that there are few to no side deals, it seems that the rest of the league might have been far more unified about not "playing the game" with Seattle as they were with Vegas. It will be interesting to see if that continues moving forward. Seattle's cap space is still going to be their largest asset so it could still give them a significant leg up against other teams, but given their reported picks so far, it feels like it might be hard for them to make hockey trades so it's mostly going to either be UFAs (as you have described) or trying to extract value from other teams by acquiring big $ contracts that they need/want to get out of. In the latter scenario, I'm wondering how much Seattle wants to stockpile draft picks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-DLC- Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 4 minutes ago, -SN- said: Hilariously so. Well clearly they won't be needing them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post -Vintage Canuck- Posted July 21, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2021 We're still waiting on the Red Wings pick... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris12345 Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Just now, -Vintage Canuck- said: We're still waiting on the Red Wings pick... Is 19 available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKSR Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Just now, -Vintage Canuck- said: We're still waiting on the Red Wings pick... Well, gotta leave SOMETHING exciting for tonight.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post -Vintage Canuck- Posted July 21, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2021 1 minute ago, Chris12345 said: Is 19 available? 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Elias Pettersson said: Unless they are going after Ovechkin or Landeskog there aren't alot of big ticket forwards out there that will help them in their top 6 in free agency. Hall is re-signing in Boston. Krejci could be someone they look at but he's 35. Brandon Saad is another. Mike Hoffman and Paul Stastny are two others on the lower end. That's about it. Are they going to throw big money at Dougie Hamilton? 37 minutes ago, Smashian Kassian said: If that's the case Francis better have a rabbit in his hat regarding side-deals. Then again they do have cap space and could take more runs in free agency. They sign a UFA or two (Danault? Schwartz?), trade for cap dump Johnson (+Foote and a pick?) from the Lightning for peanuts, and it starts to round out. I have a feeling there's still LOTS to come here. Never mind flipping one or two of those left D for F's etc. Edited July 21, 2021 by aGENT 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 1 minute ago, aGENT said: I have a feeling there's still LOTS to come here. it would be fun if there wasn't tho. I'm really hoping no one gives them an extra 1st this year too. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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