2015-2016 Blues (Hockey) Season

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I guess I'm just realizing how much more popular the NBA is than the NHL. The news coverage, major channels carrying the games, people talking about it.

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jim wrote:I guess I'm just realizing how much more popular the NBA is than the NHL. The news coverage, major channels carrying the games, people talking about it.
ESPN is a big part of that. They used to carry games, and they did good on ratings... not great but good. They lost out on the TV rights, and more or less ignored the league.

Coupled with some stupid decisions at the top by the NHL and good decisions at the top by the NBA and you see how it happens.

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So is Las Vegas getting a hockey team?

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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:So is Las Vegas getting a hockey team?
I think there are a few more things to tie up and finalize the deal, but it's a pretty much guarantee.

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cardinalkarp wrote:
AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:So is Las Vegas getting a hockey team?
I think there are a few more things to tie up and finalize the deal, but it's a pretty much guarantee.
Where do the players come from?

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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:
cardinalkarp wrote:
AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:So is Las Vegas getting a hockey team?
I think there are a few more things to tie up and finalize the deal, but it's a pretty much guarantee.
Where do the players come from?
That's a good f'ing question...lol

I'm guessing there would be some type of expansion draft, but I'm not exactly sure how those things work.

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This probably doesn't answer all the questions we have about the expansion process, but it's a pretty good read and offers a good bit of info.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spo ... ion-draft/

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cardinalkarp wrote:
AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:
cardinalkarp wrote:
AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:So is Las Vegas getting a hockey team?
I think there are a few more things to tie up and finalize the deal, but it's a pretty much guarantee.
Where do the players come from?
That's a good f'ing question...lol

I'm guessing there would be some type of expansion draft, but I'm not exactly sure how those things work.
Yes, there will be an expansion draft, and at least compared to previous expansion drafts, the Vegas franchise has a chance to be pretty decent.

What I know about it:

- Each team can protect 7 forwards, 3 defensemen, and 1 goalie OR any 8 skaters and 1 goalie.
- Players in their 1st or 2nd year of pro hockey at any level are automatically protected and don't have to be designated as such.
- The Vegas franchise will pick one player from each existing franchise, no more, no less.
- The Vegas franchise will have to spend between 60-100% of the salary cap.
- Per Deadspin, each franchise will have to expose at least two forwards and one defensemen who played 40+ NHL games in the previous season, or a combined 70 in the previous two.
- Of course, players who have no movement clauses will have to have those clauses honored if the player chooses.

The new franchise may not get any stars (well, maybe a goalie for a team like Tampa that has Bishop/Vasilevsky or Pittsburgh which may have to expose Murray), but they'll likely get a lot of second and third line caliber players.

Just supposing for the Blues, at this point in time and figuring on who likely is and isn't a free agent by then, their protected list would probably look like:

- Tarasenko
- Schwartz
- Fabbri
- Steen
- Stastny
- Barbashev
- Lehtera (maybe, I struggled with the 7th)

- Petro
- Parayko
- Bouwmeester (or they could try and expose him and protect Gunnarsson)

- Allen

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We would definately be exposing JayBo. We'd love to shed that contract at this point.

Allen or Moose would be a high risk of being taken, whoever we left unprotected.

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I think Elliott would be a free agent by that point, which is why I picked Allen. Obviously if they re-sign him, it gets murkier.

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