Whether the magic that was Vegas can be reproduced remains to be seen - but Seattle is certain to make a name for itself. The netminder could be Kings lifer Jonathan Quick. On defense, Calgary captain Mark Giordano, who at the time of the draft will be entering the last year of a six-year, $40 million extension, could be made available, or the likes of Ottawa’s Nikita Zaitsev and Buffalo’s Colin Miller could lend a veteran presence. Maybe that means forwards such as Tampa’s Alex Killorn, Nashville’s Kyle Turris and Chicago’s Andrew Shaw. Players with proven abilities yet still something more to prove. What Seattle is likely to see are the same kinds of players Vegas landed - well-paid second-liners.
That baseball expansion team lasted all of one season in the American League, losing 98 games in 1969, going bankrupt and fleeing Seattle for Milwaukee. One thing is certain: When Seattle comes into the league, Arizona won’t win the Pacific Division (the Coyotes are sliding to the Central, while the Puget Sounders join the Pacific).Īnother certainty: Seattle won’t be Pilots-level bad. Not be bought out from those contracts earlier than the summer of 2022.Include not fewer than 20 players under contract for 2021-22 with an aggregate expansion draft value between 60% and 100% of the 2020-21 salary cap.Players who missed the final 60 games of the ’20-21 season or who have otherwise been confirmed to have a career-threatening injury cannot be exposed in the draft without league approval.
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One available player must be a goalie who is under contract in 2021-22 or who is a restricted free agent having received a qualifying offer from his team. Two available players must be forwards who are under contract in 2021-22 and played at least 40 NHL games in 2020-21 or 70 games in ’19-20 and ’20-21 combined. One available player must be a defenseman who is under contract in 2021-22 and played at least 40 NHL games in 2020-21 or 70 games in ’19-20 and ’20-21 combined. First- and second-year NHL players and all unsigned draft choices are exempt from selection and do not count toward protection limits. Players with no-movement clauses who decline to waive those clauses must be protected. When making players available in the draft, teams can protect seven forwards, three defensemen and a goalie, or eight skaters and a goalie, with these provisos: The Frozen Flannels will select one player from each team, totaling at least 14 forwards, at least nine defensemen and at least three goalies. So, 30 of its existing franchises - Vegas is exempted - have to make players available to Seattle. The good news for the Whales (or will it be Sea Lions?) is that the 2021 expansion draft will be conducted under the same rules that Vegas exploited to such great success. The Knights became the best expansion team in North American sports history, winning their division and blitzing through the Western Conference playoffs with just three losses en route to a berth in the Stanley Cup Final in their first season of existence. When the Seattle expansion draft takes place in June 2021, the hope in the Emerald City will be that the Emeralds - or Kraken, or whoever - replicate the 2017-18 expansion-team success of the Vegas Golden Knights. Who will the NHL Seattle team be? Maybe the Totems, the Seals, the Sockeyes or Rainiers - or, if legendary and apparently coffee-loving sports columnist Mike Downey has anything to say about it, the Starpucks.īut, more important, when the NHL comes to Seattle in 2021, who will the team include player-wise? The 2021 NHL expansion draft will settle that.
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