Predicting the Expansion Team:

[The BBKL Insider]

Goalie:
S. Bobrovski
B. Elliott
F. Anderson

Defense:
Tyler Myers
Trevor Daley


Forwards:
B. Marchand
R. Sheahan
A. Kempe
T. Wilson
A. Lander



i'll update the team as people post their protected rosters.

[The BBKL Insider]

"as soon as they play 1 professional game in the NHL/AHL that counts for a year against"

that sucks because guys that played a game or two at the end of their CHL season now have to be protected (if they play in the NHL or AHL next season).

[Bruyns]

"as soon as they play 1 professional game in the NHL/AHL that counts for a year against"

that sucks because guys that played a game or two at the end of their CHL season now have to be protected (if they play in the NHL or AHL next season).

Has the NHL said this? I don't think Sam Bennett with 1 NHL GP the season before would need to be exposed.

[The BBKL Insider]

"as soon as they play 1 professional game in the NHL/AHL that counts for a year against"

that sucks because guys that played a game or two at the end of their CHL season now have to be protected (if they play in the NHL or AHL next season).

Has the NHL said this? I don't think Sam Bennett with 1 NHL GP the season before would need to be exposed.

in the link you posted it says that

[Bruyns]

Shows how closely I read it haha but I wouldn't take it as gospel until NHL puts out the details, just a decent guideline.

[Arian The Insider]

That's a pretty nice goalie tandem already lol

[The BBKL Insider]

That's a pretty nice goalie tandem already lol

This team is already better than Pauls,


poor paul

[thom54]

Jesus that team is going to be good

[Bruyns]

That's a pretty nice goalie tandem already lol

This team is already better than Pauls,


poor paul

The expansion team will be decent in this league. Some of the better teams have already gone though, some teams will just have depth guys unprotected.

[Tony]

Expansion Mock Draft Tool from General Fanager... pretty cool

http://www.generalfanager.com/teams/expansion

[Matthew]

One of Miks defenceman will get taken. Klibgberg?

[The BBKL Insider]

expansion team will be better than 60% of the current bbkl teams. We'll need different rules to protect more prospects, etc...

[Mike]

expansion team will be better than 60% of the current bbkl teams. We'll need different rules to protect more prospects, etc...

If the team's better than 60% of current teams that would essentially put it in the middle of the pack. I think that's about ideal, no?

[Matthew]

We could try the generalfanager thing out as if we were doing the draft this summer to gauge how strong the team will be.

[The BBKL Insider]

this is why I set this up lol, we were predicting who would get claimed. However we started wrong, we were doing 6-4, where as it will be 7-3. I'll most likely lose a dman.

Ryan Ellis would be my guess.

[Matthew]

Could be what we do pre-NHL over the next few days. Get every single team to participate.

[The BBKL Insider]

Also, If we're going to follow all the rules from the NHL I'd like to follow the trade rule as well. Teams can make deals up until June 1st next year. This allows us to get some value back for quality players. I'm still going to have really good players exposed, but i'll be able to grab a nice prospect for a guy like ryan ellis, and probably have a guy like Andy Greene get claimed instead.

IMO this helps the bottom teams a bit better. I have no issues with the expansion rules, but it would be nice to see us follow all the rules. I'll probably try to trade off a few guys for prospects at years end (like the NHL will do)

[Tony]

expansion team will be better than 60% of the current bbkl teams. We'll need different rules to protect more prospects, etc...

[Arian The Insider]

The expansion team will probably have a very good defence. They can take the #4 D-man on any team. Some teams are stacked at the position.

[Sensfanjosh]

The 60% of teams the expansion team is better than are our tankers or teams with no Gms so that's not exactly surprising.