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2021 Offseason Thread: Fuck Around & Find Out!


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Detroit also has 5 RFAs and 5 UFAs. I included free agents in the Kraken's total...that's literally all they have in the system. I guess the total doesn't count Geekie, Quenneville, Lind, or True.

 

i 100% believe the Red Wings & now Kraken are just sitting there laughing at the rest of the league screwing up their cap situations right now while licking their chops for next years off-season. -- Kraken just built their defense/grit now just waiting for next off-season to load up on the offense.

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i 100% believe the Red Wings & now Kraken are just sitting there laughing at the rest of the league screwing up their cap situations right now while licking their chops for next years off-season. -- Kraken just built their defense/grit now just waiting for next off-season to load up on the offense.

 

Awesome way for the Kraken to build their fan base by going 29-47-6 this season.

 

Drive by comments aside; the Athletic did a good job articulating that Vegas really did not start with that much more offense than Seattle is starting with. The real X-factor here for Vegas was the development of Karlson, Tuch, and Huala in their run up to that Cinderella Stanley Cup season. Certainly nobody had them as favorites for the Cup finals 3 days after the expansion draft; even though there was a general sense that they had built a really solid foundation with all of the great little side trades that are largely absent from the Kraken at this time.

 

https://theathletic.com/2722758/2021/07/22/a-side-by-side-comparison-of-seattles-and-vegass-expansion-draft-haul/

 

Then again who is to say that Mason Appleton, Nathan Bastion, and Morgan Geekie don't have similar breakout seasons with more opportunity than in their previous organizations?

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Awesome way for the Kraken to build their fan base by going 29-47-6 this season.

 

Drive by comments aside; the Athletic did a good job articulating that Vegas really did not start with that much more offense than Seattle is starting with. The real X-factor here for Vegas was the development of Karlson, Tuch, and Huala in their run up to that Cinderella Stanley Cup season. Certainly nobody had them as favorites for the Cup finals 3 days after the expansion draft; even though there was a general sense that they had built a really solid foundation with all of the great little side trades that are largely absent from the Kraken at this time.

 

https://theathletic.com/2722758/2021/07/22/a-side-by-side-comparison-of-seattles-and-vegass-expansion-draft-haul/

 

Then again who is to say that Mason Appleton, Nathan Bastion, and Morgan Geekie don't have similar breakout seasons with more opportunity than in their previous organizations?

 

Comparing Vegas to Seattle doesn't even make sense, GMs now experienced with the process and didn't make foolish trades like the Panthers trading R.Smith to Vegas so they would draft Marchessault. If half of the UFAs for next summer are available Seattle is better off giving 3 or 4 of them $7.5-10mil a year than Price, JVR, Tarasenko, Duchene. Why would Seattle want to bail these teams out of these contracts and free them up as competition in next years UFA frenzy? For what to sell some Jerseys for a guy like Tarasenko they'll be trying to get rid of by mid-season? Seattle is going to be in a weak division will be a tough team to play against could grace .500 of better then their competition in cap space will be the Sabres, Devils, Red Wings, Senators.

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