Latest Expansion Draft Buzz
The Pittsburgh Penguins official protection list is in and not a surprise they went with eight skaters.
Sidney Crosby
Evgeni Malkin
Phil Kessel
Patric Hornqvist
Kris Letang
Brian Dumoulin
Justin Schultz
Olli Maatta
Matt Murray
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Among the key players left unprotected.
Bryan Rust, Carl Hagelin, Ian Cole, Scott Wilson and obviously Marc Andre Fleury.
What does it mean?
Marc Andre Fleury is heading to Vegas one way or another. What’s not hammered down is whether it’s through a trade or expansion draft selection.
Vegas taking Fleury solely as the Penguins selection without the Penguins having to send an asset or two to Vegas via trade to take Fleury and stay off other players is just not adding up and would be bad asset management from Vegas.
The belief for weeks has been that a side deal has been worked out.
With a player like Bryan Rust left unprotected, there’s certainly a side deal in place.
Rust would be of great value to Vegas and Pittsburgh protecting him over Patric Hornqvist has caught some by surprise but Hornqvist per a person close to the situation would have been too risky to expose because of his trade value to other teams.
Vegas could have worked out a trade with another club and had incentive to select Hornqvist and trade him to the club of interest.
The Penguins, according to a source, also had no choice but to protect four defensemen due to the RFA window for Vegas. That means Justin Schultz and Brian Dumoulin are not permitted to negotiate with Vegas.
Available Penguins left unprotected
Josh Archibald (F)
Nick Bonino (F)
Matt Cullen (F)
Jean-Sebastien Dea (F)
Carl Hagelin (F)
Tom Kuhnhackl (F)
Chris Kunitz (F)
Kevin Porter (F)
Bryan Rust (F)
Tom Sestito (F)
Oskar Sundqvist (F)
Dominik Uher (F)
Garrett Wilson (F)
Scott Wilson (F)
Ian Cole (D)
Frank Corrado (D)
Trevor Daley (D)
Tim Erixon (D)
Cameron Gaunce (D)
Ron Hainsey (D)
Stuart Percy (D)
Derrick Pouliot (D)
Chad Ruhwedel (D)
Mark Streit (D)
David Warsofsky (D)
Marc-Andre Fleury (G)
Expansion Draft Key Dates
Today: UFA/RFA Interview Period Begins (only applies to Players who are available for selection in the Expansion Draft) for the Expansion Club only (10 a.m. ET).
*NHL clubs are only permitted to make trades with the Vegas Golden Knights. Announcements of trades won’t be made until June 21.
Wednesday, June 21: 10:00 a.m. ET Deadline for the Expansion Club to submit its Expansion Draft Selections to Central Registry and the NHLPA.
*Deadline for the Vegas Golden Knights to submit contracts for any pending UFA/RFAs who are selected by the Expansion Club and signed to a new contract (10 a.m. ET).
*The Vegas Golden Knights are permitted to sign a current or pending Free Agent on a Current Club’s list of Available Players during the period between 10:01 a.m. ET on Sunday, June 18, and 9:59 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 21. If the Golden Knights sign a Restricted Free Agent from the Available List of a Current Club during the four day period, the Current Club will not be entitled to any compensation from the Expansion Club.
*An announcement of the Golden Knight’s Selections will be in conjunction with the 2017 NHL Awards (8 p.m. ET) show. Each selection will be announced throughout the show in order of how teams finished in the regular season standings. The Golden Knights first announced selection will be from Colorado.
Thursday June, 22: Expansion Draft Signing Moratorium and Trade/Waiver Freeze are lifted (8 a.m. ET).[/hide]
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Gotta love the offseason on TIOPS! The lack of content allows for an endless stream of entertainment. You can not log on for 3-4 days and still go to the same thread and catch up on all the hilarious nonsense Sam & Yoda post.
PS. Sam will thumbs down this in 3…2…1
Watching the egregious errors related to players from yoda’s keyboard the last few days I am starting to wonder if he hates MAF because he thinks he is supposed to be playing another position…
#shanedoan4C
Fleury opens a playground for kids. What a class act he knows his days in Pittsburgh are over and still does his part. If only half of you Fat slobs had 1% of fleury’s class
Maybe he could build a trophy case for the Habs for the turn off the millennium. Oh wait…1993
If fleury posted here, sam would thumbs down him seconds after he posted
I hear Fleury is very tolerant of other races and respects hockey in other countries. You two wouldn’t get along
“Sign Shane Doan to be the 4th line center” Yoda
LOL. Yeah he doesn’t understand hockey.
NHL.com predicts petr mrazek and antti raanta will be in net for vegas. #rust>stbleury
They sure did… but did you even read the article? You may wanna see who their top goaltender pick is
https://www.nhl.com/news/pete-jensen-nhl-expansion-mock-draft/c-289995648
#shanedoan4C
Here is another NHL.com writer…
https://www.nhl.com/news/expansion-mock-draft-matt-dumba-mark-methot-on-list-for-vegas-golden-knights/c-289977476?tid=289242400
#shanedoan4C
Here is the 3rd NHL.com writer that created a mock draft
https://www.nhl.com/news/expansion-mock-draft-vegas-golden-knights-opt-for-young-roster/c-289979142?tid=289242400
#shanedoan4C
Here is a 4th writers opinion piece on the players available
https://www.nhl.com/news/marc-andre-fleury-james-neal-lead-top-players-available-for-golden-knights-expansion-draft/c-289975850?tid=289242400
#shanedoan4C
Now that I have rubbed that in as deep as one could I will save everyone else the clicks. All 3 mock drafters from NHL.com had MAF as their top goaltender period! The last link had MAF listed as one of the best players available in the draft… then again everyone here not named yoda knew all this already
#shanedoan4C
There’s nothing better than when he cites an article thinking it proves his point, only he somehow only managed to read the headline, and the article confirms the exact opposite of what he was trying to say. That’s our yogurt!
Fat sam posts something, and 2 seconds later, he has a thumbs up, but he hasn’t been on teh site lately – someone else is doing it! Ok – fess up – who’s thumbs upping sam – is it you NPL?
HeyD – who would you sign as a free agent? I bet you’d sign zeroFOOL and gaydogg to be your third line center
Am I doing it right?
Call someone a jee and you have it nailed.
HeyD how many people are you protecting from the extension draft. I bet Yoda and fat slob Npl are on your protected list
This makes no sense, and isnt’ funny – so I’m not sure what the point was.
Title of Sam’s posthumous biography.
What I love is when you see something that asinine, and then see someone gave it a thumbs up, as if anyone here has ever been drunk enough to actually do that.
What i love is that, immediately above my hockey related post, Sam shares a non-hockey related post.
Oh of course. That’s how he rolls though – sam way you and i “go around thumbs downing people” yet every time i post something, i have a -1 before the f’ing page can refresh. Now – who do you think is doing that..?
Continue making up shitt chubby. Haven’t been on this site lately. While you and Npl sleep on this site so if you can’t thumbs down yourself answer is simple it’s Npl then
Love how ardently you defend yourself with your thumbs ups and downs whenever it comes up. 95% of what you say in illegible, bigoted bullshit and the other 5% is “not even wrong”. Who in the actualfuck would give anything you type a “good job buddy” but yourself?
Yeah because Npl and stain have sense when they type yet both always have thumbs ups. Maybe it’s clowns like you motivates them to stay dumb by encouraging them with thumbs ups
Despite your vicious attack on the English language again I believe I know what you were saying. Yes, both NPL and Stan write coherently and are easy to understand. As I look down the page and see all the thumbs down you have given them with all your accounts it really kills your own argument dipshit.
Fatty – don’t lie – it makes you look worse than you already do.
Despite all the other nonsense from an earlier post, I do like the idea of Brian Boyle in the bottom 6. Can play C or wing, and skates fast enough to play with fast, skilled teams like Tampa.
That said, im not sure id like him at 3rd line center replacing Bonino. And with JR all but assuring Sundqvist on the team, 4th line center appears taken.
stanley cup teams always lose good players in expansion. bye bye porter.
Did anyone besides Yoda watch the 7 game series against Ottawa thinking Bobby Ryan was playing center?
With all of the good goalies available, it is dumb for Vegas to pass on rust. Here is what’s going down. The pens needed to give Vegas something good in order for them to take the Saint off of the pens hands. The pens are trading the Saint to Vegas for a 3rd line center that Vegas selects in the draft Since bonino and Cullen are gone. Vegas gets rust in the draft which sucks but that’s what the pens deserve for giving the Saint that absurd contract.
Youre so knowledgeable. Please tell me more about the centerman named Booby Ryan.
I changed that. A guy of that caliber that is available.
Suuuuuure
Kinda hammers home why someone with such limited knowledge would call for a rebuild a week before two Cup runs.
Check that. Two Cup wins.
Can you imagine if Vancouver had a 1-2 punch down the middle of McDavid and Bobby Ryan?
With Doaner pulling up on the 4th line?
Don’t forget about possible centerman Shane Doan, too
Do you think its actually funny or clever to call Fleury “The Saint”? Everyone on this page hates you and thinks you are a moron. Honestly, I hope you die in a horribly slow and painful way.
This made my day lol! Tip of the hat DK.
I mean honestly, F this loser. Everything he posts is stupid. He’s never made me once laugh or say “oh that’s a clever quip” or “that’s a unique perspective.” Go turn on your car in the garage and think about what a waste of life you are until you pass out.
I hear ya, this is why I go at him too. I mean I guess it would be as easy as ignoring him but there is something theraputic in telling him to fuckoff
Careful now – given a recent court ruling, you could be held somewhat responsible if he goes and does that. Have to be careful these days.
I want to to kill himself. I’m begging him to kill himself. Pleeeease. Bathe with a toaster. Take a hit on an exhaust pipe. Step out of a window on the 10th floor. Idc how, just please kill yourself.
….here we go again…..you have issues
Says the asshole that has literally spent the last 7 years bitching and moaning nonstop about one player on the entire roster… its “cult of blurry” and “blow it up… to keep it fresh” for 7 fucken years.
what’s with everyone wishing people die slow and painful deaths lateley? to wish someone death over a hockey player is really weird. you have issues
No no, not people… you. Only you because you’re an insufferable cuntbag.
Is there a way pens can keep fleury since jew bettman raise the cap space to 75m
No. Time for you to go troll The Insider on Vegas Sports.
the pens will keep the saint because nobody wants him
I mean you clearly want him. Again.
Everyone on the planet has MAF headed to Vegas except yoda
#yodalling
You spelled jee wrong
Why is your hero Ryan not on the protected list for the sens? Oh I know since be is with sens the only time he played good was this year’s playoffs
Why Is your Habs trade first round picks for pennies on dolla. Oh I know because they draft worse than your sex life?
“Since Jew Bettman” – players voted on the escalator lol.
What’s the point now?
“I don’t expect to make any moves until the expansion draft” -GMJR
Fleury to Vegas. That is all.
anntti raanta will be starting for vegas
$1000 it’s someone else?
Hey Yoda Why don’t you create insider Vegas. Website and have fun over there with fleury hates
That was funny 2 weeks ago when someone else posted it. Not so much 2 weeks later when you finally caught on.
Not way they expose Rust without a deal in place. Dude’s scored more clutch playoff goals than Crosby and Malkin combined.
stanley cup teams always lose good players in expansion. bye bye rust.
Wrong again Yogurt. This makes how many now?
how do you know i’m wrong? they haven’t drafted yet
Because you are not very bright and don’t understand the game of hockey. Your daily posts prove you are an idiot.
not really. sullivan has done everything that i said the pens should do.
Then why did they need a rebuild a week before the first cup?
He hasn’t pushed to blow the team up… just to keep it fresh lol. Fucken moron
Good one! I agree. GMJR is no idiot. He’s old, but he isn’t an idiot.
Teams shut down Crosby, malkin more. That’s why there is always no name hero’s every time
there are 20 available goaltenders who are as serviceable as the saint. rust, cole, and hagelin are all better options than the saint for vegas. #thesaintisabackup, #pghfansdelusional, #cultofstbleury, #buyoutiscoming
If Rust, Cole, or Hagelin and stolen your ass cherry and then bailed on you, would you still think that? I doubt it.
It’s not worth it. He’s a worthless piece of garbage that has nothing better to do. His daughter is an everyday reminder of how much more of a man Fleury is.
When the team is announced and MAF is on that list I am going to relentless!
OM not on the list either