Episode 406: Expansion Draft Takeaways

The Hockey PDOcast

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4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Lambert and Jack Fraser join the show to discuss what Seattle chose to do at the expansion draft, how the Kraken will look in Year 1, what their next steps are, and specific picks that we found notable for either good or bad reasons. Topics include: The value of financial flexibility moving forward How they can spend the cap space they now have Forgoing bigger names with bigger price tags The strong defensive players they targeted The risk and reward of their goalie choices Picks we liked Picks we didn't like Why there weren't more side deals along the way How good their projection should be for Year 1 The ideal ways for them to improve moving forward If you're looking to pivot to preparing for the upcoming entry draft and need to jam in as much in-depth analysis as possible in a short period of time, the Elite Prospects Draft Guide is just the thing for you. It includes detailed scouting reports, projections, and breakdowns of every prospect that you need to know about. You can use the promo code DRAFTGUIDE, which gets your three free months on an annual subscription when you sign up. With it, you'll not only get the guide, but you'll get access to all of the great written content available at Elite Prospects Rinkside, which includes the musings of yours truly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.4	Filippovich.
0:52.2	Welcome to the HockeyPedio cast.
0:54.0	My name is Dmitri Filipovich and joining me for a special immediately after the expansion
0:58.8	draft results podcast.
1:00.9	It's my good buddy, Ryan Lambert.
1:02.5	Ryan, what's good on?
1:03.4	What's happening?
1:05.0	What's happening?
1:05.7	Not a whole lot other than it feels like this morning we woke up, at least I did here on the Pacific Times Zone,
1:12.2	to just a tour to force performance by our good pal, Frank Seri Valley, where he was basically
1:17.8	just revealing every single thing that was going to happen tonight. And then we all tuned
1:21.7	into the actual televised event, expecting that we had found out there to be some sort of trades.
1:25.7	And it turns out there has been nothing at all. So I have no idea why we just spent the past hour and a half watching that thing
1:31.0	yeah that's about right um although i will say uh the i don't know the college football guy's name
1:38.5	uh but the college football guy being like uh you notice that the uh Leafs haven't gone on the first round
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