SBN Mock Expansion Draft: The Mock Kings Hereby Mock Protect...
by Quisp on Sep 2, 2010 9:34 AM PDT
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The results of the poll are in. There is one significant difference between what I would have done and what the membership has chosen, but we'll leave that for the comments to debate. Without further ado, here's the list:
9 Forwards Protected:
- Anze Kopitar
- Dustin Brown
- Ryan Smyth
- Jarret Stoll
- Wayne Simmonds
- Oscar Moller
- Michal Handzus
- Brad Richardson
- Alexei Ponikarovsky
5 defensemen protected:
1 goalie protected:
5 exposed:
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I’m shocked that the majority would protect Poni instead of Parse. Poni is an unproven player for us on a 1 year contract. Parse has a lot of upside and Parse or Scooter as we in 305 call him still has a ton of upside and has 2 more years at less then a 3rd of Poni’s contract.
i voted to protect Parse….i dont get that either…maybe its because we just signed him and wouldnt want to lose him right away….
then again…this is a mock draft scenario….
"It's not illegal. It's frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane."-Alan Garner
They would probably have some rule that you have to protect a player you had just signed that off-season anyway.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
I think that I left Williams and Poni unprotected because they were both on 1 year deals.
Now which player do you think the Kings would lose in the draft? I’m thinking Parse would be taken due to a low contract and good potential.
I protected Parse and not Smyth
gambling that the mock GMs won’t take on the salary.
All the unprotected are good players. Drewiske, Harrold and Ersberg are affordable and excellent in their roles of third-pairing d, swiss army knife and back-up goalie, respectively. Williams could well score 30 goals this year. Parse is great (in my opinion) but I don’t know if he gets picked. Actually, he probably does, since I’ve been harping on his statistical virtues pretty consistently over the last year, and at least one of the GMs is “statistically motivated.”
Wait till this year.
It’s hard to say for sure until you see what players have already been picked. If Ersberg looks to be the best backup available, he may get picked. If you need a potential, injury-prone RW with Stanley Cup experience, then go with Williams.
If you want Captain Canada and need help getting to the salary cap floor, then you pick Smyth.
I would have protected Parse over Stoll. We’ll call that salary dump and opening up room for Schenn to steal the spot. Every other loss I can stomach, including Williams because of his injury frequency.
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by Great Ice-Pectations on Sep 2, 2010 11:43 AM PDT reply actions
I voted to protect Parse over Ponikarovsky, as well. I think JFTC was hit by some sort of Ukranian vote-bot which sabotaged the true results of our poll.
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by DodgerBlueBalls on Sep 2, 2010 11:48 AM PDT reply actions
LOL
Ukranian Vote-Bots run rampant on the internet these days….
"It's not illegal. It's frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane."-Alan Garner
That was for you, Niesy :-)
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by DodgerBlueBalls on Sep 3, 2010 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
ummm... has anyone read Darryl Dyck's photo caption?
It’s gotta be a top 10 photo caption of all-time.
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