canuck2xtreme

It was brought up to me so I thought I should clarify in the thread:

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As for exempt players, the exemption status has bumped up from 2 seasons to 3.  So players with 3 or fewer professional seasons would be exempt, as well as unsigned draft picks.

Keep in mind that with some European players, these two things can conflict!  I've run across a few players who are at the moment, still unsigned draft picks, but they also have 4 or more seasons in a European professional league.  In this situation, those players are exempt as long as they remain unsigned draft picks at the time of the Expansion Draft.  If you have a player in this situation and they are signed prior to the expansion draft, they will be eligible to be selected unless they are protected!

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20 minutes ago, Theo5789 said:

So for example, I have Aku Raty. He has played 4 seasons in Liiga (started as an 18 year old). Only 1 NHL game. He would be exposed if I don't protect him?

Correct

5 minutes ago, MatchesMalone said:

 

Random point of clarification just occurred to me. Would playoff games count toward a 10 game limit? Also, since it isn't stated otherwise I assume those limits are the same for goaltenders? And since we don't count AHL (minor pro), I'm assuming we only count each country's top tier league, so Allsvenskan or Mestis wouldn't count?

Playoff games do not count, regular season games only.

Games required is at least 41 NHL games in 2023-24, or 25 NHL games for goaltenders, or 60 NHL games over the past two NHL seasons (30 for goaltenders) in order to meet exposure criteria.  If you meant the 10 game limit for a season, yes, it is the same for goaltenders.

As for European leagues, while I don't know all of them, I am looking at Czech Extraliga, NLA, SHL, DEL, Liiga as leagues that would count as a professional season.  I will put those league's in the post for reference.  Thanks

On 5/16/2024 at 6:13 PM, JIAHN said:

@canuck2xtreme

 

Hi 

 

Can you define what a pro-season is? Is it, anything over 9 pro-games?

Is it, just NHL pro-games, or does that mean, AHL, SHL, KHL?

 

As I said in the above post.......can we get it onto the first page...maybe as an edit (aka expansion rules)

 

Also can you add the protection list numbers there as well.....instead of us keep on asking, or hunting through pages of the thread...

 

Just requests............you do an amazing job, and you can't think of everything, although you do a pretty knock up job!

 

Cheers, and Thanks for your consideration!!

EXPANSION RULES!!
 

Teams have the option to protect either:

8 forwards, 3 defence, 1 goalie

7 forwards, 4 defence, 1 goalie

10 skaters (any position), 1 goalie

All players with NMC's will be automatically protected unless the clause is expressly waived for the purposes of the expansion draft.  NTC's or L-NTC's do not apply and players with those clauses can be exposed.

As for exempt players, the exemption status has bumped up from 2 seasons to 3.  So players with 3 or fewer professional seasons would be exempt, as well as unsigned draft picks.  A professional season is 10 games or more, either in the NHL, KHL or in a European professional league (Czech Extraliga, NLA, SHL, DEL, Liiga).  We are not including AHL seasons for this purpose.

Minimum exposure requirements remain the same; all teams must expose at least 2 forwards, 1 defenceman and 1 goaltender who meet the exposure requirement criteria.  As before, qualified RFA players will count.  Pending UFA players will also count, provided they played at least 41 NHL games in 2024-25 (20 for goaltenders).

Exposure Requirement Criteria:

- player must have played at least 41 NHL games in 2023-24, or 20 NHL games for goaltenders, or 60 NHL games over the past two NHL seasons (25 for goaltenders).
- at least one exposed player must be under contract for the 2024-25 season.

Every team's protected list must be in by 11:59pm on June 12, 2024.  Teams who have not submitted a protection list by that point will have their entire roster (except for exempt players) exposed and eligible to be selected.  Teams submit their protection lists by posting it in the thread.

Anaheim will have until 8:00pm on June 18, 2024 to complete the announcement of their selections.

Anaheim will select 30 players of their choosing, one from each team.  Trades with Anaheim are permitted.

I am working on the expansion draft pages on each teams chart, I will be getting those finished hopefully within the week.

EDIT: I have placed these expansion rules on page 1 in one of the placeholder posts for easy reference.

1 hour ago, Gator said:

what are the current matchups?

146 - Washington vs Pittsburgh - 206
154 - Buffalo vs Toronto - 198

238 - Edmonton vs Vancouver - 200
59 - Winnipeg vs Colorado - 189

1 hour ago, Squeak said:

curious about Jake Neighbours?

 

he only played 9 NHL games before going back to junior… which in the past means he didn’t accrue a season. If it didn’t… then he is exempt?

Yes he's exempt.

11 minutes ago, Brettzky said:

Do we have a rough or tentative date or dates for the expansion draft?

Tentative dates:

Protect lists will need to be in by June 12th.

Anaheim's selections will need to be made by June 18th.

On 5/6/2024 at 6:54 AM, canuck2xtreme said:

 

Our expansion rules would differ slightly from the NHL's previous rules to help teams prepare, as they'd only have a month to prepare rather than a full season.  Teams would have the option to protect either:

8 forwards, 3 defence, 1 goalie

7 forwards, 4 defence, 1 goalie

10 skaters (any position), 1 goalie

 

As for exempt players, the exemption status would bump up from 2 seasons to 3.  So players with 3 or fewer professional seasons would be exempt, as well as unsigned draft picks.

 

Minimum exposure requirements would remain the same, as well as players with NMC's being automatically protected.

 

Anaheim would select only 20 players of their choosing, meaning 10 teams would not lose anyone in the process.  This keeps flexibility for both our current teams and the expansion team, and increases likely trades being made to protect a player, or in some cases, convince Anaheim to not choose a player from a teams roster.

 

The Ducks would be involved in our draft lottery process, but unless they won the draft lottery their picks would be slotted 15th, after all the current non-playoff teams.

 

***EDIT: I should note, as far as minimum exposure requirements go, pending UFAs WILL count towards the exposure limit provided they have played at least 41 games in the 2023-24 season, or 25 games for goaltenders.  RFAs who have been qualified will also count, as they did before.***

@Squeak these were the proposed expansion rules, but as I've been adding Expansion pages and working on sheets, it seems to be overkill.  In some cases teams would be protecting pending UFAs just to fill a list.

I am currently looking at the difference if we just revert closer to NHL rules, which would be:

Teams would have the option to protect either:

7 forwards, 3 defence, 1 goalie

8 skaters (any position), 1 goalie

Players with 2 or fewer professional seasons would be exempt, as well as unsigned draft picks.

Minimum exposure requirements would remain the same, as well as players with NMC's being automatically protected.  Pending UFAs WILL count towards the exposure limit provided they have played at least 41 games in the 2023-24 season, or 25 games for goaltenders.  RFAs who have been qualified will also count, as they did before.

Anaheim would select 30 players of their choosing, one from every team.

Trying to find the happy medium where both GMs and the expansion team get a fair shake.

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4 minutes ago, MatchesMalone said:

Is there a final draft order somewhere yet?

 

We have the 5th overall pick and would be open to moving back a few spots. Would probably happen on draft day but we'd like to map out some options in advance.

Yes there is!

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Heading to work, but it looks like I may not be home before the NHL holds tomorrow's Draft lottery.  Seems it's a pretty solid bet at this point that expansion is going to move forward, so with that in mind, here is our Draft Lottery Phase 1 for tomorrow's NHL Draft Lottery odds.

28 minutes ago, Optimist Prime said:

teams still have teams picks that have been folded? ouch. With contraction that ought to have been handled without involving a new GM with a brand new club, imo. I wouldn't mind if in that rare circumstance the old pick is a 'freebie' for the club that owns it but the new GM and new club don't carry forward the penalty. Just my two cents, don't really care so much as it aint me, but fair is fair to the new guy right? (and yes i do have a history of pushin back on policies that make it incredibly hard for new people to join and enjoy fantasy keeper leagues, hehe, nothing has changed there)

 

While I don't disagree with your underlying point, the potential incoming Ducks GM has no issue with the draft pick situation, so it's not necessary to make it more complicated.

2 minutes ago, Caboose said:

What about teams who own ANA picks from previous iterations of the team?

You will still hold that pick.  Anaheim will get their 1st, 3rd and 4th back but you hold their 2nd and will be able to select in that place.

5 hours ago, Ilunga said:

 

I hope we are mirroring NHL expansion rules.

 

7 forwards - 3 defenceman - 1 goalie

 

First and second year pro's and unsigned draft picks are exempt.

 

Our expansion rules would differ slightly from the NHL's previous rules to help teams prepare, as they'd only have a month to prepare rather than a full season.  Teams would have the option to protect either:

8 forwards, 3 defence, 1 goalie

7 forwards, 4 defence, 1 goalie

10 skaters (any position), 1 goalie

As for exempt players, the exemption status would bump up from 2 seasons to 3.  So players with 3 or fewer professional seasons would be exempt, as well as unsigned draft picks.

Minimum exposure requirements would remain the same, as well as players with NMC's being automatically protected.

Anaheim would select only 20 players of their choosing, meaning 10 teams would not lose anyone in the process.  This keeps flexibility for both our current teams and the expansion team, and increases likely trades being made to protect a player, or in some cases, convince Anaheim to not choose a player from a teams roster.

The Ducks would be involved in our draft lottery process, but unless they won the draft lottery their picks would be slotted 15th, after all the current non-playoff teams.

***EDIT: I should note, as far as minimum exposure requirements go, pending UFAs WILL count towards the exposure limit provided they have played at least 41 games in the 2023-24 season, or 25 games for goaltenders.  RFAs who have been qualified will also count, as they did before.***