but if they have no remaining years once FA hits they can be like nah im not feelin the expansion team and fuck off
seems like it would be pretty much a no draft unless they were able to work something out beforehand but without permission i believe thats not legal
although some teams might expose better players as UFA hoping for that so if you can draft and maybe change their mind with a bit of extra $$ could be a way to land some good players as an expansion gm

This post was edited by dragoneth on Jul 2 2021 10:53pm

Yeah I mean like why not wait to announce it after the draft, so they don't need to put rnh as one of the protected player. They could protect another player instead, and once draft is done they can announce the signing, it will still be before UFA

teams also have to get with in compliance for whats available to be drafted

i know the sharks are lik 2 forward contracts from being with in compliance

Avs are one of the front runner for Jones? Damn man that would be nuts. Only for 1 year but he's on such a good deal, would make them just insane



This post was edited by Meatstick on Jul 5 2021 08:27pm

makes sense, they're expected to lose good players to seattle, so they're probably offloading them to get jones in return or something?

Still shocked they are not in the finals.

crazy that seems to be the thought around the league i wonder if its a not wanting to trade him to an east team or hes refusing to sign and trade and the avs want him regardless

if hes wiling to sign and trade to philly i honestly fletcher is going bend over he knows he needs a guy like jones and flyers have picks prospects young players its like what do you want take it i dont think there is many untouchables
and its said hes not interested in going after hamilton so unless hes got a back up planned for some nashville D or plans on trying to get savard or something through FA jones is his guy hes pretty much got to get him

people are even reporting flyers are the most aggressive yet not the front runners which is weird i almost feel like cbj is putting out the avs are front runners to try and get fletcher to pay even more lol

This post was edited by dragoneth on Jul 6 2021 06:57am

Unless the avs trade or lose atleast 2 of Graves , Johnson, Compher, Or Kadri, there's noway the avs fit Jones under the cap. They have around 17mil to sign Makar, Landy and Grubauer or a replacement.

Kadri doesn’t play in the playoffs anyway so it’s more like give up Johnson Compher or Graves to fit Jones

This post was edited by SharpNips on Jul 6 2021 07:17am

Not sure what kind of joke that is, he still counts against the cap.