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2019 NHL Off Season News Thread

Good for Ronnie! I wish him nothing but success out there unless, of course, Seattle plays our beloved Hurricanes, ya know.
 
about half last year's Canes team was brought in by Francis either by trade or draft. And also a big chunk of the checkers too. I'm sure he made that point in talking to Seattle.

I wonder what he said to them about not making any trades of NHL for NHL players.
 
Quite a challenge to take on an expansion team GM job! I think the hardest thing Francis will face is that both the Seattle fans and hockey observers league wide will try and compare the Vegas model and instant success they had into what happens in Seattle and that won’t be fair. Most expansion teams go through many years of growing pains and what Vegas did so quickly is still hard to fathom.
 
CanadaCanes said:
Quite a challenge to take on an expansion team GM job! I think the hardest thing Francis will face is that both the Seattle fans and hockey observers league wide will try and compare the Vegas model and instant success they had into what happens in Seattle and that won’t be fair. Most expansion teams go through many years of growing pains and what Vegas did so quickly is still hard to fathom.
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Managing expectations may be just as difficult as managing the roster.


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What RF is going to need to do to navigate just the pre expansion draft trading is going to involve more deal making than he made in his time as our GM. It will be interesting to watch how this plays out.
 
I'm going to make this prediction now.

None of Zach Werenski, Kyle Connor, Patrick Laine, Matthew Tkachuk, Brock Boeser, Charline McAvoy, Mikko Rantanen, Mitch Marner, or Braydon Point are going to be signed until September. At least 5 of them will not be signed until after camps starts. At least 3 of them will not be signed when the regular season starts.

None of them will be offer sheeted (Boeser cannot be offer sheeted, the other 8 can).


There, I've done my part to ensure that one of these guys gets signed before the end of the week :thumbup:
 
CanadaCanes said:
Most expansion teams go through many years of growing pains and what Vegas did so quickly is still hard to fathom.
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That may be true of most expansion teams, but the NHL's recent expansion draft rules are the most favorable to the expansion team in NHL history. The 1967 draft was technically more favorable regarding the number of protected players, but with six teams drafting, the available good talent was highly dispersed. In other previous drafts (except Vegas), expansion teams were basically picking 4th liners and 3rd pairing d-men, often the 6th d-man on the depth chart. Vegas and Seattle pick 3rd liners and 2d pairing D. Considering that 3d lines aren't just checking lines any more, that's a pretty big step up from the old situation. Not saying that Vegas wasn't incredibly shrewd and, too a decent extent lucky. Also not saying that it would be fair to judge RF's performance by Seattle's results. Just saying that Seattle should not expect to be a cellar dweller long, if at all, and that RF should not get a pass for long on missing the playoffs just because so many previous expansion teams were barely watchable.
 
andyt said:
Caps ease some cap pressure and trade Andre Burakovsky to Colorado for Scott Kosmachuk and a 2nd and 3rd in 2020. Burakovsky is a RFA with arbitration rights. Kosmachuk is a career minor leaguer who played 8 games with Winnipeg in 15-16. Avs have about $39 million in cap space but only 5 forwards under contract. Caps have about $9 million in cap space but only 15 skaters under contract.
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Burakovsky signs with the Avs for 1 year/$3.25 million.


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bagopux said:
That may be true of most expansion teams, but the NHL's recent expansion draft rules are the most favorable to the expansion team in NHL history. The 1967 draft was technically more favorable regarding the number of protected players, but with six teams drafting, the available good talent was highly dispersed. In other previous drafts (except Vegas), expansion teams were basically picking 4th liners and 3rd pairing d-men, often the 6th d-man on the depth chart. Vegas and Seattle pick 3rd liners and 2d pairing D. Considering that 3d lines aren't just checking lines any more, that's a pretty big step up from the old situation. Not saying that Vegas wasn't incredibly shrewd and, too a decent extent lucky. Also not saying that it would be fair to judge RF's performance by Seattle's results. Just saying that Seattle should not expect to be a cellar dweller long, if at all, and that RF should not get a pass for long on missing the playoffs just because so many previous expansion teams were barely watchable.
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My money would bet on Seattle being more like a regular expansion team with growing pains and a few years of non-playoff hockey than on being another Vegas quickly successful out of the gate. Of course the expansion draft rules are going to be more favorable now when you see the price tag these new teams are paying just to get in so the league has to have a carrot to dangle when you pony up $500-$650 million dollars just to be welcomed. Vegas indeed made some shrewd moves and had some luck on their side but for an expansion team to be that good that quick is still pretty rare overall and likely hard to match by Seattle.
 
Eric Duhatschek sat down with Ron Francis after the Seattle announcement. One of their hiring criteria was the GM had to be “a forward thinker, who understood there were new competitive advantages coming via analytics and technology”. The Canes first analytics guy was Darren Yorke. The Canes box used to be right below my seats in 326. I saw a guy I didn’t recognize and asked my ticket rep who he was. He told me it was Darren and “he’s Ron’s analytics guy”

https://theathletic.com/1084731/201...d-to-his-chance-to-build-nhl-team-in-seattle/


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Eric Duhatschek from The Athletic had a sit down with Francis after the announcement. One of the things the club had in their hiring criteria was “A forward thinker, who understood there were new competitive advantages coming via analytics and technology”. Darren Yorke was the first Canes analytics guy, when Francis was the AGM under JR. The team box used to be below my seats in 326. I saw him there and asked my ticket rep who the unfamiliar face was. He told me it was Darren and he was “Ron’s analytics guy.” So he was ahead of the curve in that regard.

https://theathletic.com/1084731/201...d-to-his-chance-to-build-nhl-team-in-seattle/


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