Except my point was that I think Roy is better than Doughty, because he's overrated. I used Barrie as an example, but maybe it was a poor one.

If you attempted to play the Sherlock Holmes of bad comparisons in CF, congrats. Your task was successful indeed.

Where did I say anything about re-signing Barrie?

You mean you don't want one of the best offensive defenseman at 5v5 on your team for multiple years?

They already have one of the best offensive defenseman at 5v5 on their team. Here's the stats for the past 3.5 years:

1. Carlson: 116
2. Burns: 104
3. Josi: 103
4. Nurse: 95
5. Rielly: 94
6. Barrie: 93
7. Chabot: 90
8. Hedman: 86
9. Karlsson: 87
10. Giordano: 85
11. Pietrangelo: 82
12. Hamilton: 81
13. Ekblad: 81

Barrie is 30 this summer. That's not a great age to sign a guy for big term and big dollars. Besides, I'm pretty sure 21-year-old Evan Bouchard (1.52 P/60 at 5v5) can fill in for Barrie (1.53 P/60 at 5v5) going forward.

Now you can have two!

Yup. Darnell Nurse and Evan Bouchard.

Bouchard is going to be traded to make room for Tyson Barrie and the 8 x 8 he will be signing.

Lol what would we do without you, mondo

Chiarelli, Yes. Holland, No.

That's not how UFAs work with the expansion draft. The week prior to the draft, Seattle is allowed to negotiate new contracts with all pending UFAs and RFAs that are unprotected. If they come to terms with any of them, that player becomes the selection from their former team. If they don't come to terms, then Seattle is free to choose someone else. They don't have to select the player and cross their fingers that they can negotiate a new deal in the few days before free agent frenzy begins.

Regardless, I think that Iafallo will be extended in LA prior to the trade deadline. The Kings like him, and he likes LA. They don't have any other NHL ready options in the pipeline to replace him at 1LW if he leaves.

Can you tell me where did you get this info, because I've never heard anything of the sort.

Doesn't make sense to think that for instance VGK had the same option to negotiate with UFAs prior to ExD, yet they only picked four pending UFAs in that said draft, namely Engelland, Brickley, Berube and Thorburn, with the two latter of them being assets VGK got paid big time to take.

It was discussed in the weeks prior to the Vegas expansion draft, referred to as "Exclusive Free Agency."


NHL Expansion Draft 101

Here's another link that explains it further.

Expansion Draft Primer: What's Exclusive Free Agency?

Ah, I see.

Well regardless I wouldn't be too worried about losing Iafallo to SEA. If, as you put it, he likes the team and the team likes him, he's unlikely to sign a contract with them and thus become their ExD pick.

Probably true. Seattle is one of those teams that would be able to significantly overpay for him if they wanted to.

If I'm Blake, I'm not taking any chances.