Fifth Avenue Forum

McCann is a better player per dollar than Zucker, right...?

protect: mikey and Gaucho
expose: meow and dodint

protect: mikey and Gaucho
expose: meow and dodint

protect: mikey and Gaucho
expose: meow and dodint

My tribute video is going to be a tear jerker.

Having an extra protection slot on D is a huge positive. It gives us a chance to make a trade on the discount...

21 of the 22 franchises in the league at the time of the draft were allowed to protect two goaltenders and fourteen position players (the San Jose Sharks were the only team exempt of protection restrictions as they were an expansion team the previous season). Beyond that, every team had to make available at least one goaltender who had played at least one NHL game.

...every team had to make available at least one goaltender who had played at least one NHL game. This clause (known to the league teams far in advance) led to several trades so that teams could fulfill the requirement without exposing their lead goaltenders. It also led to anomalies such as Ray LeBlanc (the star of the 1992 United States Olympic team) being put into the only NHL game of his career so that the Chicago Blackhawks could expose him and not Ed Belfour, Dominik Hasek or Jimmy Waite. To avoid exposing any of their three goaltenders, the Washington Capitals re-signed former goalie Bernie Wolfe, who was aged 40 and last played an NHL game in 1979. League president John Ziegler held up approval of the contract and summoned Capitals general manager David Poile to Toronto to explain himself; not willing to risk being sanctioned, the team signed Steve Weeks instead.

For teams protecting only one goaltender, there was no experience requirement for those left unprotected. For teams protecting two goaltenders, each goaltender left unprotected must have appeared in either 10 NHL games in the 1999–2000 season or 25 games in the 1998–99 season and 1999–2000 seasons combined. A goaltender had to be in net for at least 31 minutes in each game for the game to be counted against these totals.

One key people need to remember, the Pens will lose a "good" player in the ED. It is set up so that Seattle can get someone that doesn't stink from each team. They will loose someone that contributes.

Exempt (not full, just "names"): Poulin, Legare, Zohorna*, Marino, Joseph

Current protect for me (cap order):
G: Jarry
D: Letang*, Dumoulin, Pettersson
F: Malkin*, Crosby*, Guentzel, Zucker, Rust, Kapanen, McCann

Expose (not full list, just "names" and those that qualify for the exposure need):
G: DeSmith
D: Matheson, Ruhwedel, Riikola, Friedman
F: Tanev, Carter, Lafferty, (qualified/resigned RFAs: Blueger, Reese)
Plus any UFAs that resigned before the draft

I am protecting Pettersson over Matheson because Pettersson has more trade value than Matheson but mostly due to the contracts. Matheson is $850K more, and has an additional year.

I am protecting Zucker because he is no lower than the #6 value F (protection wise). #7 on my list is McCann, but Tanev has a chance of pushing out McCann, 7a and 7b. Blueger isn't really in the running, he is #9 at best, as you could argue Carter over Blueger.

Seriously it has to be Carter. I'm not risking losing a bona fide top 9 center for next season especially knowing 71 will probably miss at least 1/4 of the season