True. I honestly had trouble finding guys to protect on a couple teams

Jesper Fast and Derick Pouliot are two names that strike me as not requiring protection

I think ideally it would be 1/1/2, but with 104 picks thats just not really possible. 1/2/3 should be good.

I guess the max guys a team should lose will be 4

I'm for that. Good call.

Lets take it a step further... no more than 1 Goalie, 2 D, or 3 Forwards

Like for example ottawa shouldnt lose both anderson and hammond

I guess the max guys a team should lose will be 4

Hot or not

LOL well done

Sucks kingham may not pitch until 2017

So sorry... been a horrible week at work and I haven't had a spare second. Working on this now...

Ok excellent. Exempt from protection! Sorry new GMs!

Like, what is the cutoff date. Is it 7/1/2014? Kucherov was 21 on that date. What do we use for the contract cutoff? If he signed 9/10/12, does that mean 9/10/15 he moves from a 2 to a 3? Or do we use 7/1 again? EDIT: Ok i'm applying it wrong. Kucherov was 19 years old when he signed. That means he ...

So let's do Nikita Kucherov:

Signed 9/10/2012 (Between 2 and 3 years ago... not sure which you would theoretically use)

Age 21

Games 134

So I would look at the chart at age 21 skaters... does that mean he has 3 years from signing or 80 NHL games before losing his waiver exemption?

yeah this sucks... what are the rules if you don't mind me asking? Is this acccurate: GOALIES AGE----YEARS FROM SIGNING----NHL GAMES 18 6 80 19 5 80 20 4 80 21 4 60 22 4 60 23 3 60 24 2 60 25+ 1 SKATERS AGE----YEARS FROM SIGNING----NHL GAMES 18 5 160 19 4 160 20 3 160 21 3 80 22 3 70 23 3 60 24 2 60...

http://www.generalfanager.com/freeagents

Does this have waiver eligibility? Not finding it...

Close it out Marko. SP gotta love when he leaves the game trailing and ends up with the W. Nail it down for the horse named COLE.

Should i submit protected lists for the adams division prior to signing free agents?

Also, is there a resource for waiver eligibility?

Hey sorry ill work on my part today!

Arquimedes: 21.2 innings, 0.97 WHIP, 24:7 k:bb, .184 baa

Sick.

I'm not sure the team will be good enough the next 2 years to risk wasting almost a million in cap space in the following 2.

So 6.5 back now with st Louis playing at an unsustainable clip. It could be worse.

Or maybe you should? I dont know what the appropriate round is to take a huge risk.

Then again its ray shero drafting so all bets are off

Jim if your point is that its a major crapshoot we get it...

My point is you shouldn't be using top 10 picks on players with an abundantly obvious fatal flaw

He was considered a first round talent (late 1st) but again at no point in his career (WHL, WJC, AHL, NHL) could he be considered competent in his own end.

Pretty much any warm bodied top 6 defenseman is worth close to 2 mill these days.

So the real question to ask, ignoring the 917k penalty in years 3 and 4:

Is Scuderi worth 2.0 and 1.8 million the next two years?

Tough to answer. Overall, yes. To the Pens? Maybe not.

My issue with pouliot at #8 is that he's been a defenseman who has sucked at defense at each and every level he's played at