Their gm said beforehand that he sees this incoming draft as salary cap filling material. Either he's wanting to tank while respecting the cap or he's looking for some deals with teams who flirt with the cap floor

Its practically unheard of for a team to make the playoffs in their first year

win the stanley cup

Think LV would gamble on Yakupov?

Don't think Vegas will be doing any gambling

First OV pick 23 year old, I might go for it based on what STL has available.
But I'm not a GM so

He was first but his value now is really low. Blues got him for practically nothing but I haven't seen what blues have to offer so maybe!

And they need what 23 players? Some teams won't lose anything

This post was edited by h4bs on Jun 19 2017 10:33am

Actually every team is guaranteed to lose 1 player. McPhee has to select one from every team.
If he lands a FA due to the early negotiation period that he gets, that counts as the player from X team in most cases.

So yes he will have more players than required and can trade some for assets.

Oh nice didn't know that I thought some teams would get lucky