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Sean Maloughney
Location: Edmonton, AB
Joined: 09.21.2020

Dec 27 @ 7:39 PM ET
Sean Maloughney: Blame The Trades, Not The Rules For The Golden Knights Success
BluemanGuruu
St Louis Blues
Location: trustinjarmo knows nothing, MO
Joined: 06.28.2007

Dec 27 @ 7:47 PM ET
I wonder also if the acts themselves, especially players involved in trades to protect other players and then being selected, became an impetus and the chips on their shoulders of wanting to prove their value? That plus an actual chance at great ice time must have also had a lot to do with their success. A good coach helped with pushing or guiding those desires. It was a perfect storm.
VeryModernMan
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: Munich
Joined: 06.06.2017

Dec 27 @ 9:50 PM ET
Nice blog.
Queenie_5_hole
New Jersey Devils
Joined: 05.01.2015

Dec 28 @ 8:52 AM ET
Whether it was trades or the draft the expansion format was more favorable then ever before. Sure, Vegas did a remarkable job leveraging this and thier success has been remarkable.

In the past the league clearly hurt expansion teams by not helping them become competitive. In Vegas they created a monster. While I hate the Golden knights, I hope the Kraken are a good competitive team from day 1. It’s better for the new franchise and the sport.
Doogs
Season Ticket Holder
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: Pittsburgh , PA
Joined: 09.16.2005

Dec 28 @ 10:18 AM ET
I posted on this before and feel the same way still. The Vegas expansion was not handled rule wise due to the protection number being too low. And it will be magnified this time being so soon after. The number you can protect should be higher.

And there is NO REASON Vegas should be exempt.
Mannix
Location: Minny
Joined: 06.20.2015

Dec 28 @ 11:57 AM ET
I don't understand why Minnesota is always on these lists. Essentially they 'traded' Alex Tuch and Erik Haula for Matt Dumba, which I would do 100% of the time.

Tuch is a great player and the Wild would love to have him. Haula was a good player, but the Wild weren't going to re-sign him at the time anyways. It always hurts to lose good players for nothing, but I don't hate this move
FoppaForever
Colorado Avalanche
Joined: 11.13.2018

Dec 28 @ 12:44 PM ET
" That all being said, it was the mistakes of other NHL teams and the trades they made with Vegas that made that team so good, rather than the expansion rules that were put in place."

Exactamundo. Great blog, maybe the best on HB this year. And you didn't even mention Pittsburgh giving them a 2nd to take Fleury or Winnipeg giving them a 1st that turned out to be 13 overall and 3rd. I've been hoping for a while my Avs don't do something stupid like those teams did. If you're a deep team know that you're going to lose a good player and leave it at that. Don't compound it by doing something stupid.
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Space for Rent
Joined: 08.30.2006

Dec 29 @ 2:34 PM ET
I wonder if the GMS are a little wiser with their trades when comes the Seattle expansion draft.
sjfpp
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: pittsburgh, PA
Joined: 05.14.2011

Jan 2 @ 8:08 PM ET
I agree that teams should be able to protect more players. On the other hand, the league in turn should reduce the $500 mil expansion fee. It was only $80 mil in 2000. The league wants all of that money though so the tradeoff for the expansion teams is that they are competitive right from the start so they are able to recoup some of that money.
668710
Pittsburgh Penguins
Location: "Give him a chance" -Barnaby36, PA
Joined: 06.25.2011

Jan 3 @ 9:13 AM ET
The Pens also traded them Fleury, that was huge for the Knights in their cup run.