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Crap, I think you're right. Thanks for looking anyway.

Hey Capwise, My son's hockey team is running a 50-50 fund-raiser. Chance to win some money - could be $10,000 or more (Cdn), depending on how many tickets are sold. Draw is Nov. 5. We are heading to tournaments in Calgary, Salmon Arm and Los Angeles this season, so any support you can offer would be appreciated. https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/cacu15ie/15

It sounds like the money was similar, Larsson just wanted a change of scenery. I'm not sure there was much Holland could have done here, except offer a gross overpay (5x5). Not saying it isn't disappointing, though, especially since Seattle signed another one of their targets (Oleksiak). Do they now go all-in for Dougie Hamilton? Or check down to Tyson Barrie and hope he learns how to play defence? Are there any other cheap right Ds who might be lesser known that could play a defensive D role?

Fun to look at everyone's. Here's mine, taking a big swing at UFAs by going all in to sign Landeskog, Hamilton, Oleksiak and Driedger. At least one goalie would be flipped (probably Kahkonen) and a couple D-men (Giordano if he would waive - maybe back to the Flames - and Stecher). Projected depth chart: Forwards Gabriel Landeskog - Yanni Gourde - Jordan Eberle James van Riemsdyk - Jared McCann - Ryan Donato Christian Fischer - Chris Tierney - Brandon Tanev Nathan Bastian - Adam Gaudette - Julien Gauthier Extras: Tyler Benson, Kole Lind Defence Jamie Oleksiak - Dougie Hamilton Mark Giordano - Dylan Demelo Vince Dunn - Troy Stecher Extras: Haydn Fleury, Jeremy Lauzon, Gabriel Carlsson, Kale Clague, William Borgen Goalies Carey Price Chris Driedger Extras: Kaapo Kahkonen, Vitek Vanecek, Connor Ingram SEATTLE KRAKEN PROJECTED CAP HIT : $57,206,666 PROJECTED CAP SPACE : $24,293,334 DRAFTED: 30/30 CAP HIT SALARY PERFORMANCE BONUS SIGNING BONUS CONTRACT CLAUSE FORWARDS (14) TERMS POS STATUS AGE 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 2026-27 2027-28 van Riemsdyk, James LW NHL 32 $7,000,000 $7,000,000 UFA Eberle, Jordan M-NTC RW NHL 31 $5,500,000 $5,500,000 $5,500,000 UFA Gourde, Yanni NTC C, LW, RW NHL 29 $5,166,666 $5,166,666 $5,166,666 $5,166,666 UFA Tanev, Brandon M-NTC RW, LW NHL 29 $3,500,000 $3,500,000 $3,500,000 $3,500,000 UFA Tierney, Chris C NHL 27 $3,500,000 UFA McCann, Jared LW, C NHL 25 $2,940,000 RFA Fischer, Christian RW, LW NHL 24 $1,000,000 RFA Bastian, Nathan RW, C NHL 23 $825,000 $825,000 RFA Gauthier, Julien RW NHL 23 $775,000 RFA Benson, Tyler LW Minor 23 RFA Donato, Ryan LW, C NHL 25 RFA Gaudette, Adam C NHL 24 RFA Lind, Kole RW Minor 22 RFA Landeskog, Gabriel LW, C NHL 28 UFA Roster created at CapFriendly.com | Follow on Twitter @capfriendly DEFENSE (11) TERMS POS STATUS AGE 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 2026-27 2027-28 Giordano, Mark M-NTC LD NHL 37 $6,750,000 UFA DeMelo, Dylan M-NTC RD NHL 28 $3,000,000 $3,000,000 $3,000,000 UFA Stecher, Troy RD NHL 27 $1,700,000 UFA Fleury, Haydn LD/RD NHL 25 $1,300,000 RFA Lauzon, Jérémy LD/RD NHL 24 $850,000 RFA Carlsson, Gabriel LD NHL 24 $725,000 RFA Oleksiak, Jamie LD NHL 28 UFA Borgen, William RD NHL 24 RFA Hamilton, Dougie RD NHL 28 UFA Clague, Kale LD Minor 23 RFA Dunn, Vince LD/RD NHL 24 RFA GOALTENDERS (5) TERMS POS STATUS AGE 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 2026-27 2027-28 Price, Carey NMC G NHL 33 $10,500,000 $10,500,000 $10,500,000 $10,500,000 $10,500,000 UFA Ingram, Connor G Minor 24 $733,333 $733,333 RFA Kähkönen, Kaapo G NHL 24 $725,000 RFA Vanecek, Vitek G NHL 25 $716,667 RFA Driedger, Chris G NHL 27 UFA

Canada would probably still win. By far the deepest talent pool in the world, although the U.S. is closing the gap. If you consider all of the top players in the world (NHL rosters & prospects with a few top non-NHL European players thrown in), Canada could reasonably break into eight teams, the U.S. six, Russia four, Sweden 2.5, Finland two, Czech Republic one, Slovakia half, Switzerland 40%, Germany 30% and the rest between 5-10%. I know this because I tried it with way too much time on my hands over lockdown. lol.

Some of my worst/craziest trade stories happened with James involved. This thread first started on the 2014 trade deadline when I dealt P.K. Subban (then one of the NHL's best D-men) for the beauty Slava Voynov, Beau Bennett (who?) and a second round amateur. Some cap space involving three different seasons also changed sides. Voynov was arrested for beating his wife eight months after this deal and Bennett became nothing. But I salvaged something out of it when I flipped the second rounder to Half Centaurs (he selected Nikolai Goldobin) for a fourth rounder (I selected Brayden Point) and a second rounder the following draft (this became Travis Konecny). James came knocking again, though, on trade deadline 2016 and I went nuts, dealing him Brayden Point, along with Matthieu Perreault, Josh Morrissey, Esa Lindell, Erik Gudbranson and a conditional second round re-entry (where he selected Justin Schultz) for Milan Lucic, Alex Goligoski and $5.1M. Crazy town. It will go down as the worst trade I've ever made, but I ended up winning the PCFL championship (believe it or not Goligoski put me over the top), so I guess I can't say it was a total loss. Lesson learned. Never trade with the commish!

Yes, I can find them now, too. Is that really a "hamburger?"

Looks good. One thing, though: when viewing on mobile, there is no longer a button to see your messages. Used to be top right.

Agree with your thoughts. Definitely some guys who can impact the game in ways the Oilers need it most, although I'm higher on Holloway and Savoie as potential top-six guys who can produce offence as well. I've heard a few people knocking the AJHL after their picks (not saying you are), but a lot of great players have come out of there (Lanny McDonald, Mark Messier, Dany Heatley, Mike Comrie and Cale Makar, obviously). And Savoie just scored the most goals the AJHL has seen in a season since 2001. I don't care where you play, if you score 53 goals in 54 games, you have some talent that should translate. Apparently he fell because of his defensive play, but that can be taught, so I'm optimistic.

I've heard not to be surprised if Yzerman takes Askarov at #4.

3000! Wow that’s high. We were down to 7 in the entire province of Alberta last week but it’s back up to about 30-40 a day now. Rinks were given the green light to open as early as tomorrow but very few in Edmonton are opening immediately (due to staff being laid off and no one having ice in). That said, my son is on the ice Monday at one of the few to open in the city. No dressing rooms are open and they have to come home dressed and get skates on in the lobby.

https://whl.ca/article/bc-hockey-announces-exceptional-player-status-for-connor-bedard Get him on your radar now. Anyone from Vancouver ever seen this kid play?

Was definitely hoping for something in the fours, but I agree with what Salros said of the long-term potential of the deal.

Definitely higher than I was hoping for as a Provorov owner praying for a bridge deal, but it actually could look decent in a couple of years. Has all the makings of a stud D-man in fantasy, imo. I think last season's offensive production was an anomaly.

There is only so much money to go around. I think GMs are going to be put in check soon when no one has any space left to go $10M-plus for star players. In fact, it might already be happening (W. Karlsson, Meier).

One of the biggest picks that was panned as a "reach" at the time that I recall vividly was when the Jets chose Mark Scheifele seventh overall in 2011. I personally remember being shocked at the time, as many others were. So many players "ranked" higher than him were left on the board. If you redid that draft, though, he's probably the first overall pick. Ever since, I've taken that to heart when evaluating how much of a shock it is when a team goes off the board for their guy. Always wait and see.

Fake news https://www.nhl.com/player/andrej-sekera-8471284?stats=gamelogs-r-nhl&season=20182019

Always thought highly of Boucher, so it seems surprising as an outsider, but I'm reading a lot of bad stuff about him from the Ottawa crowd. Still think his teams overachieved during his time there.

Gosh. Best suggestion yet. They'd have to make him the highest-paid GM in history, though, to even get him to look their way. Katz does have some of the deepest pockets in the league ... I also think the injuries played a big part. It would be better if Klefbom was their second-best puck-moving defenceman, though. The trades have been painful. Lucic hasn't panned out, obviously. I have no idea why their latest first-round picks can't seem to do anything while peers their age are. But despite all that, the amusing part is they have most of the same roster that a good portion of so-called "expert" pundits predicted just 16 months ago would finish atop the Western Conference in 2017-18. That's why I never really believe much of what the sky is falling talking heads think. They could easily turn this thing around next season. Wouldn't surprise me. But one thing's for sure, they have to absolutely knock the next GM hire out of the park.

YES!

I know, but this is terrible. Big downgrade from what they had before.

That works!

Yeah, that's what I did.

I just sent them a message asking them to bring it back, but they said it's gone forever. I laid into them about how truly bad the new version is, so maybe if others did that they'd at least consider a return to the old one.

Anyone else think the new live scoring absolutely blows compared to the old one? I was still using the old one up until they recently discontinued it in the new year.