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Team: 2021-22 Seattle Kraken

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 21, 2021

Published: Jul. 21, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Expansion Draft

ANA - Fleury
ARZ - Bunting (UFA) 2 mill will be enough to scare away any market bidders given his small sample size. Withalot of cap space, its a bet that is low risk but possibly high reward
BOS- Lauzon
BUF - Borgen (RFA)
CGY - Giordano
CAR - Bean( RFA) Great dman who played 3rd pairing minutes. have the space to sign him long term and make him a foundational piece of the franchise on a nice contract.
CHI - Gaudette (RFA)
COL - Donskoi
DAL - Oleksiak (UFA) Do a sign and trade with another team wanting to jump the line, provides high flipping value given the amount of good dmen taken in the expansion
DET - Stetcher
EDM - Khaira (RFA)
FLA - Fatrano (deal to sign dredger as well as reported)
LA - Lizotte
MIN - Kahkonen Great trade candidate, alot of teams need that young goalie and vanecek would not carry the same price tag that would make trading worth it. Kahkonen get high flip value and broberg is young with a very high ceiling that can slide into the lineup to fill the hole left by gio in the lineup.
MTL - Danault (UFA) He is looking for icetime and opportunity. He would get plenty in seattle.
NSH - Jarnkrok
NJD - Bastian
NYI - Bailey
NYR - Gauthier
OTT - Daccord
PHI - Hagg
PIT - Aston-Reese (RFA)
SJS - Gambrell
STL - Dunn (RFA) Easy pick + can sign to southing long termlike bean to solidify the dcore for a good amount of time
TBL - Gourde
TOR - McCann
VAN - Lind (RFA)
WSH - Vanecek
WPG - Damelo

With this kind of Cap space, seattle can snag a less than ideal contract or 2 via trade to add high-end draft capital in this or next year's draft (which slated to be the best since 2015) + prospects Francis may be high on. Given the pacific division this roster could be a playoff team with a strong dcore, solid centre depth and a good enough goalie tandem to compete. There is also the option of writing up an offersheet given the amount of big fish that are waiting to be signed but compensation may just be too high a price to pay.

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