GroupThink: Which Forwards Do We Protect in the SBN Mock Expansion Draft?
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 31, 2010 7:55 PM MDT
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Mile High Hockey is currently participating in establishing a fake protected list for the SBN Mock Expansion Draft. Craig Anderson will be our lone goalie protected and we're currently in the middle of voting to establish which 5 defensemen to protect. Our final task it to pick which 9 forwards get protected.
For starters, there are 12 forwards that are eligible for the draft. We can protect 9 of them. For simplicities sake, I'm going to arbitrarily decide that Stastny, Hejduk, Duchene, O'Reilly, Galiardi, Mueller and Stewart are automatic protects, so it really boils down to choosing 2 more forwards to protect. The SBN polling system only allows one choice, but I think we can make it work. There are four forwards on the poll; vote for the player you think we should NOT protect. The two players with the most votes will be left unprotected, along with David Koci (executive decision there).
So vote early and...uh, vote once. Again, the two forwards with the most votes will be left unprotected and at risk of getting drafted by Quebec or *gulp* Winnipeg.
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I say Porter/McLeod
Only on the fact that apparently Winnik is a slightly better player than McL.
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obvious choice is porter
I don’t see how you select Jones (at all, clearly he has the most potential). Mcloud is essentially the Avs only useful tough guy, and Winnick is supposed to be halfway decent…
"I cannot really hear what Jeremy says because I've got my two Stanley Cup rings plugging my ear."-Patrick Roy
We need two more unprotected
Porter is one, but who’s the other?
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Sorry, it's three total
So Porter, Koci, and who?
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Porter won the Hobey Baker, I don’t really know anything else about him but he has to have some potential. Winnik is supposedly an excellent penalty-killer, and it’d look really pathetic if we lost our only acquisition all summer. McLeod’s got toughness and heart, but his skillset is hardly irreplaceable. I’ve got to call him the weakest link here.
Yeah
This set up probably won’t end very well.
Especially with this piece of advice:
Again, the two forwards with the most votes will be left protected and at risk of getting drafted by Quebec or gulp Winnipeg.
And this whole time, I though protecting them meant they can’t be chosen…
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geez, I put all that effort in to make it clear and then I blow it
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Sep 1, 2010 5:33 AM MDT up reply actions
Just throwing this out there...
Dario posted the Avalanche protected and available lists from the 1999 expansion draft (Atlanta). This is the list from the 2000 expansion draft (Columbus and Minnesota).
Protected List
Adam Deadmarsh F, Chris Dingman F, Peter Forsberg F, Dan Hinote F, Brad Larsen F, Ville Nieminen F, Shjon Podein F, Joe Sakic F, Stephane Yelle F, Ray Bourque D, Adam Foote D, Jon Klemm D, Aaron Miller D, Sandis Ozolinsh D, Patrick Roy G.
Available List
Dave Andreychuk F, Serge Aubin F, Tomi Hirvonen F, Mikael Johansson F, Christian Matte F, Jeff Odgers F, Dave Reid F, Rob Shearer F, Jason Bowen D, Greg De Vries D, Michael Gaul D, Alexei Gusarov D, Sami Helenius D, Eric Messier D, Dan Smith D, David Aebischer G, Frederic Cassivi G, Kai Fischer G, Petr Franek G, Rick Tabaracci G.
You’ll notice that Marc Denis’s name is not on either list. He was traded to Columbus on June 7th and the expansion draft was held on June 23rd. However, it’s interesting to note that the Avalanche basically acquired Rick Tabaracci that year to have a goalie to expose to the draft in the event that the Avs were to protect both Denis and Roy. But, David Aebischer played well enough in Hershey that the Avs traded Denis before the expansion draft to make way for Abby as Patrick Roy’s back up. Tabaracci was selected by Columbus.
by c0nquistad0rian on Aug 31, 2010 10:18 PM MDT reply actions
Jones
we can’t say he’ll be 100% this season, we got through a good chunk of the season without him. The most expendable versus everyone else on that list.
Is it October yet?!
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Porter and McLeod, I guess, even though I love McLeod. Only because the team seems to view Winnik as the final piece for a championship club.
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There's 11 people on my shit list
Is it hockey season yet?
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13 now.
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Hockeytown was a marketing invention to draw fans to a team that had less gate than the atlanta thrashers.
think of it this way,
Fewer editions of the newsletter to print
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Will he still remember the shit list
When he’s ready to make the second issue at age 98?
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i am really surprised at the results here
is it just because we don’t know Winnik? love for McLeod? hope he recovers his 15g scoring form?
I didn’t think there was much debate Winnik was an upgrade on McLeod (mainly defensively), but I guess I was wrong.
It’s probably because we don’t know winnik. I think there is a lot of fan favoritism going on in these decisions instead of purely hockey decisions.
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Hockeytown was a marketing invention to draw fans to a team that had less gate than the atlanta thrashers.
It wasn’t favortism as much as comfort in knowing what I would get. I’d rather protect something that I know than gamble on what I don’t at this point. Although I didn’t vote for either of them getting tossed, so I guess my argument doesn’t mean squat. lol.
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by Cheryl Bradley on Sep 2, 2010 3:21 PM MDT up reply actions
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