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Morning gents, Allen or bust! But for real he seems to be the heavy favorite. I do think they expose Weber to protect Chiarot so only other players left I would be happy with are Armia or Evans.
You guys are definitely the best on youtube when it comes to protection lists and who teams will take. Love the in-depth analysis and agree with the Jake Allen pick.
Phillip Danault is a PREMIER defensive forward, a 3rd line centreman on a Stanley Cup team or a 2nd line centreman on a mediocre team. His offence is limited thou. I wish Price waves his NMC but the Habs may never ask him and yes I wouldn't protect Drouin either … his production vs his contract makes him unattractive to all 32 teams including Montreal.
Great breakdown, and I completely agree on Drouin. Most overrated player for so long… and a selfish, "me first" guy. He refused to take an assignment to the AHL by Tampa and Stevie Y let him dangle for a year, and STILL got Mikhail Sergachev straight up for him. Tampa coach Jon Cooper said Drouin needs to learn that there are TWO nets.
As a Habs fan, for Seattle it would be a no-brainer to pick G Allen. But as you mentionned if Mtl decide to protect him in any possible ways, then the option are still interesting. On D it would be between Fleury or Kulak. On Forward if they need a center they could go with Danault or Evans and on winger either Armia or Lehkonen. Seattle would get either a starter goalie with Allen or a bottom 6 forward or a 3rd pair defenceman. Have good depth doesnt hurt and Mtl have quite a few good depth options. So I would keep the Mtl pick last if Allen cant be chosen to see which depth I would need to fill in the team. Thats how I would decide my pick.
Montreal getting Price to waive his NMC smells like they're asking for a Fleury/Golden Knights situation that they'd regret in like half a year.
Yeah, there's no way they protect Drouin. And there's no way they let Danault go – he's too critical a piece to Montreal. So the Habs are likely to sign Danault and protect him alongside Kotkaniemi, Gallagher, Toffoli, Lehkonen, Anderson (the fans would CRUCIFY Bergevin if he lets Danault walk). Then the question is, do they risk losing Armia to UFA for the ability to protect Evans? Or do they do the same thing that I think they'll do with Danault – sign and protect? Given the way he's performing in the playoffs so far, I suspect they try to do the latter.
So Evans probably gets exposed…but I doubt he gets selected. He's a solid bottom-6 forward option, with a year on his contract. Problem is…he's 25 now, meaning if he wants, he can elect for arbitration after a year, accept a 1 year deal, and hit UFA after he turns 27, with his pick of teams. So it's a real gamble selecting him, INDEPENDENT of the fact that we've likely seen the best that he can offer in this league (i.e. an energy guy, really solid forechecker, defensively-responsible and offensively mediocre). The Habs would be sorry to lose him, but if we're being fair, he's a good 4th-line center.
I think that a dark horse candidate for the expansion draft is Paul Byron. He has leadership experience (wearing the "A" for the Habs for a couple years now), he always gives his all, and he's a freakin' speed demon (a transitional wizard, the kind of guy who scores a lot of breakway goals and participates in a lot of 2 on 1's). Since he joined the Habs he has 9 regular season shorties, plus he scored a CRITICAL shorthanded goal in this year's playoffs (in Game 1 vs. the Leafs) that stood up as the game winner (and he kills penalties really well even when he's not scoring on the PK). He has two years before hitting UFA (same as Allen…and same amount of time they'd be guaranteed to keep Evans for, before HE could hit UFA), and he's only 32 years old.
So for me the question of who is picked (Allen or someone else) really depends on who else is available at goaltender throughout the league. If Seattle are able to land a couple solid starting goalies in UFA, maybe they don't take Allen. First off…Allen is not a good starter. 3-4 years ago, he was putting up present-day Antti Raanta-like SV% numbers with the Blues at 26 years old (Raanta is 32). Problem is, as a backup, he's barely better…he's going to need a damned good defensive corps to be effective in that role. So if the Kraken are looking at him for a starting role, forget about it. He is not a starting goaltender at the NHL level. Period. Any team that tries to use him as such will lose. If he's used as a backup, playing 30 games a year…sure. He might get you 35 points in 30 games, with a decent defense in front of him. But I think there are better options.
If I'm the Kraken, I target a guy like Laurent Brossoit as a backup goalie. He's better than Allen, and he's younger than Allen. As for a starter, assuming that Boston protect Rask, you can't go wrong with Jaro Halak. He still puts up amazing numbers, and knows that with Swayman turning heads, his days are numbered in Boston – sign him for 2-3 years, and play him for 40-50 games a year. There's also Adin Hill in Arizona (they'll likely protect Kuemper), and whichever goalie Pittsburgh decides not to protect (they probably choose Jarry, but DeSmith is not a bad consolation prize for the Kraken…imagine Pittsburgh loses two goalies in a row to expansion drafts!). And obviously, there's still Braden Holtby as a clear target for starting goaltender – I still believe in this guy, and Vancouver was just TRASH this year…they gave him ZERO defensive support. ALL of those guys are preferable to Allen, and I don't think any of those teams have better skater options (well, maybe the Jets, if you want to take a stab at Niku, Poolman or Forbort instead of Brossoit).
I would expose Allen and Armia but definitely protect Danault.