My first question is one I think you haven't answered yet, and it's pretty important.
Exactly how will expansion work for the new teams coming in? How many players will they get from each team, and how will they choose those players? How many players will you lose per year, and are the positions limited? How many players you can lose at each position may make a difference.
At forward, I feel that Petterson, Svechnikow, and Hintz are protect guys. Kakko & Terry are do not protect guys. Necas, Buchnevich, and Stuetzle have reasons to be that last protected guy.
Goalies are harder to parse out. If you can only lose 1 goalie, I protect Andersen, as he's got the most short-term value, and should be most tradable post-expansion, and he's of a different type of value than the other two. If you must lose two goalies, I'd be inclined to not protect him if you feel you're not competitive in the next 2 seasons.
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10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, Brink
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
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We'll lose 2 players per year, for a total of 6 players.
No positional restrictions as to what we'll lose, so n'est year I could lose 2 G, patch up with a G that I'll lose in 2023, etc.
They must pick 12 players each from our 12 teams, so that everybody loses 2 guys. They also get the top odds for the 1st & 2nd overall picks, and a bunch of extra picks at the end of the draft.
Our cap is 40 players on the roster. I dont have the exact #s but it'll be reduced to 32 or so in 3 years.
Hope it helps
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14 Teams, PTS Only, Salary, Full Keep, Start 2G 6D 3C 3LW 3RW
G- Gustafsson, Korpisalo, Woll
D- Burns, Forsling, Brannstrom, Peru, Liljgren, Addison, ?, POJoseph, Jiricek
C- Barkov, Eichel, Larkin, Nelson, Rossi
LW- Marchessault, Zucc, Hagel, ?, Holtz
RW- Terry, Tarasenko, Pavelski, Kakko, Brink
18 teams, PTS Only, Top G, Top4 D, Top10 F, Full Keep with a twist
G- Shest, Luukkanen
D- Seider Dunn Hedman Pionk Brannstrom Peru
F- Scheifele Reinhart JT Miller Hyman Malkin Lindholm Zucc Giroux Marchmant Hartman Bjorkstrand Krebs T Raddysh Jeannot Brink Poulin Perreault Cristall
TRADE ALERT
My Andersen + Connor Brown + Alex Nylander
for
His Cal Petersen + Matthew Boldy + Matthew Beniers
Unless Boldy plays 37 of the final 48 games of the Wild, he'll be protected automatically this summer.
Beniers is also protected automatically until he plays 40 NHL games.
So.... rank these goalies to protect I guess?
Jarry
Merzlikins
Petersen
?
Think it's likely not Jarry as I took more weapons for two years from now, instead of next season.
14 Teams, PTS Only, Salary, Full Keep, Start 2G 6D 3C 3LW 3RW
G- Gustafsson, Korpisalo, Woll
D- Burns, Forsling, Brannstrom, Peru, Liljgren, Addison, ?, POJoseph, Jiricek
C- Barkov, Eichel, Larkin, Nelson, Rossi
LW- Marchessault, Zucc, Hagel, ?, Holtz
RW- Terry, Tarasenko, Pavelski, Kakko, Brink
18 teams, PTS Only, Top G, Top4 D, Top10 F, Full Keep with a twist
G- Shest, Luukkanen
D- Seider Dunn Hedman Pionk Brannstrom Peru
F- Scheifele Reinhart JT Miller Hyman Malkin Lindholm Zucc Giroux Marchmant Hartman Bjorkstrand Krebs T Raddysh Jeannot Brink Poulin Perreault Cristall
That info on draft format helps. You can lose a maximum of 2 players, and they can be at any position. From that trade update, it sounds like you have players who are exempt from the draft as well. Can you give us that list, so we can the shape of what you have protected coming down the pipeline?
Given that I am really unsure which of your goalies I'd want, I'd be very willing to deal any of them for assets that you will automatically protect plus a decent replacement goalie. My goal would be to keep working to accumulate protectable assets, then ship some of them off for a real keeper goalie from a team that has 2 of them, and has to do something or lose one of them. Then keep that guy you acquire.
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Here's the full roster.
Currently 9th out of 12.
Top2 G (will be topG once the expansion is over in three years)
Top6 D (will be top 4 D in three years)
Top15 F (will be 11F in three years)
Capped at 40 players max (will be capped at 34 players max in three years)
Full 40 men roster :
Jarry
Merzlikins
Petersen
Hughes
Heiskanen
Bean
Boqvist
Grzlecyk
C.Miller
E. Gustafsson
Lundkvist
Pulock
Klefbom
Terry
Buchnevich
Svechnikov
Hintz
Cirelli
Garland
Marner
Necas
J. Hughes
Eriksson Ek
Pettersson
Stutzle
Kakko
Tolvanen
Yamamoto
Zucker
Zadina
Caufield
Fischer
Vrana
Automatically protected so far :
Boldy
Beniers
Eklund
Perfetti
Kravtsov
Own 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks (if nothing moves, 6th, 20th, 34th overall)
14 Teams, PTS Only, Salary, Full Keep, Start 2G 6D 3C 3LW 3RW
G- Gustafsson, Korpisalo, Woll
D- Burns, Forsling, Brannstrom, Peru, Liljgren, Addison, ?, POJoseph, Jiricek
C- Barkov, Eichel, Larkin, Nelson, Rossi
LW- Marchessault, Zucc, Hagel, ?, Holtz
RW- Terry, Tarasenko, Pavelski, Kakko, Brink
18 teams, PTS Only, Top G, Top4 D, Top10 F, Full Keep with a twist
G- Shest, Luukkanen
D- Seider Dunn Hedman Pionk Brannstrom Peru
F- Scheifele Reinhart JT Miller Hyman Malkin Lindholm Zucc Giroux Marchmant Hartman Bjorkstrand Krebs T Raddysh Jeannot Brink Poulin Perreault Cristall
So once expansion is over, it's full dynasty at 34 players maximum, and you will lose 2 players from your current roster over that time, plus 4 more from whatever your current roster is that aren't free to protect.
I still like the idea of moving layers who help contenders for free protect players, especially those a bit further away. I suspect you need to go fairly hard at this approach early before others catch on; just be careful to not go too far.
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