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 The expansion draft is coming! And you have an opportunity to win fabulous prizes! How do I Play? On July 17th the NHL will release a list of players from which the Seattle Kraken will choose to compose their first NHL roster. According to the NHL rules they will be selecting one player from each team other than the Vegas Golden Knights. They will be picking at minimum 14 forwards, 9 defenceman, and 3 goalies. Of the 30 players they choose, at least 20 must be under contract for next season. Your challenge will be to also select a team from the available players, within the NHL rules (including salary cap rules). You will do this on a google form that will be posted as shortly after the protected lists are released. The form will also have a couple of tie-breaker questions. I will close selections either at the time of the draft (7PM EST on July 21st), or earlier if someone starts seriously leaking all the picks. This is a good incentive to get in early! You can find a more thorough description of the rules on Capfriendly's site here, as well as an expansion draft tool that you could find either helpful or confusing. What do I win? There are two ways to win!!! (1) All posters whose selections are closest to Seattle's actual selections will win a free forums upgrade, which I encourage you to spend on a Kraken themed avatar marking you as Seattle's first forums superfan. (2) For the poster whose selections do the best over the course of the 2021-2022 season, you will win a fantastic selection of Seattle Kraken merch!!! (3) There may also be secret prizes throughout the year. I dunno, I haven't decided yet. How are points scored for the big prize? I'm glad you asked! For all players it will be the following: 2 points for a goal 1 point for an assist 0.1 points for a shot -0.2 points per PIM For goalies it will be: 2 points for a win 0.02 points per save -0.1 per goal against What else do I need to know? Have fun!!! The Selection Link The full list of protected and available players The Scores Link Assuming I've done this correctly, should be here.
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Jul 10, 2021 23:57
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Yaya posted:Submit early, but don't submit too early, or else you end up like me during the Vegas expansion contest reading on a bus at 7AM in the morning that Dale Tallon was trading Marchessault and Reilly Smith to protect Petrovic and realizing you were completely hosed. It's another exciting dynamic: you can hold out to try see the insane protection trades that happen but risk getting owned when picks start leaking and I have to close submissions.
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Jul 11, 2021 00:52
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The grand prize is, of course, available to all contestants who enter a legal team.
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Jul 11, 2021 14:07
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Okay a link to the selection form is now in the OP. The lists aren't in yet but I'm not going to be around the computer later tonight. So if you must submit your list, remember to choose responsibly.
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Jul 17, 2021 21:55
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tarbrush posted:This form can only be viewed by users in the owner's organisation? Oh no. I will try fix it when I get home. Try to not forget your team in the mean time!
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Jul 17, 2021 23:55
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Okay, I think I fixed it and it's now accessible by all.
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Jul 18, 2021 03:51
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https://media.nhl.com/public/news/15205 Protected and available lists are now up. You have all the information you need to make your selections.
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Jul 18, 2021 15:47
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Duckman2008 posted:to clarify: i assume we have to be cap compliant ? The OP posted:Your challenge will be to also select a team from the available players, within the NHL rules. Free agents are pickable, but overall 20 of the 30 selected players have to be currently under contract.
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Jul 18, 2021 16:50
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Chad Sexington posted:Sounds fun. How does the cap work for dudes like Landeskog who are pickable but we have no idea what their contract is going to look like? I checked this through with the capfriendly simulator, and Gabriel Landeskog currently has the cap hit of his contract expiring in a few days ($5,571,429)
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Jul 19, 2021 02:30
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I just checked submissions and there are two in there from vote1
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Jul 21, 2021 03:53
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Duckman2008 posted:Are you saying vote 1 voted 2 times ? If I don't hear back from them I guess I just delete the latter entry. Looks like two ones... make a one.
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Jul 21, 2021 15:42
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Leaks are coming out a bit earlier than I had hoped. Any submissions after now will not count to the for the accuracy avatar. But they still count towards the grand prize.
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Jul 21, 2021 16:38
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Duckman2008 posted:Are you saying vote 1 voted 2 times ?  err... hmm....
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Jul 21, 2021 16:41
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Contest closing shortly. Last chance. VOTE1 posted:I’m almost certainly a moron who could have double submitted, but the third wasn’t me! I had kind of suspected as much. I will keep the 2nd entry and delete all others.
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Jul 22, 2021 00:12
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And we are closed. I'll try to get something up with all the results later today.
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Jul 22, 2021 00:42
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That seems a bit much
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Jul 22, 2021 14:32
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Here should be a list of submissions. I'm going to spend the rest of today entering them into a slightly more pleasant to read spreadsheet. My goal it to teach myself to code well enough so I can have a sheet which auto-updates results through the season. No promises.
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Jul 25, 2021 17:35
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Lol I got 6 correct and apparently outright forgot to pick a Canuck You were not the only person to forget a pick, and there were two other spots I blanked because someone had put a player down for the wrong team.
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Jul 25, 2021 20:52
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If I've done this right, this should be a read-only link to a more involved version of the spreadsheet. Lemme know if this works for you.
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Jul 25, 2021 20:54
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With eighteen correct selections, the winner of the free av is Kilza Close behind, with seventeen correct selections, was NJD2005 Most of you seemed to get 10 right And in a spectacular last place, with precisely two correct selections, is Ergo Propter Hog. You can take some additional pride if the Kraken end up being total rear end, since your team is the least like theirs.
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Jul 25, 2021 23:08
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Scaramouche posted:I'm kind of amazed anyone got that close given how... unexpected that all turned out. I think every pick got guessed at least once except for Beyreuther and Twarynski
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Jul 25, 2021 23:33
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drat. I forget, did you end up taking plat instead of an av last time?
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Jul 26, 2021 00:48
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:I'm quite excited for this. In hindsight maybe we ought to have allowed two submissions per person: 'Best guess as to who will be picked' team and 'Best performing team you would have picked' since it turns out those are gonna be so different. The point is that they are different, so you have to choose between pursuing the higher probability but lower reward path, or the much more difficult but much higher reward path. Anyway, now that the season is over, I will start totalling things up tomorrow. I have an idea of what the prizes are going to be.
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May 2, 2022 00:00
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Duke Chin posted:prizes: Not doing loser punishments this year.
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May 2, 2022 12:52
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Early preliminary comments: congratulations to everyone who picked Michael Bunting from the Coyotes.
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May 2, 2022 16:10
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Okay, the final spreadsheet should be linked here. Feel free to double check that I haven't hosed anything up. Blank spaces are either where someone didn't enter a player, or where the player was illegitimate (there were a few cases of goons selecting someone from the wrong team). The preliminary results are as follows: The Seattle Kraken: 764.24 Mike_V: 1289.68 zodiackylite: 1255.22 chad sexington: 1205.56 NJD2005: 1175.1 mentholmoose: 1147.32 Mind_Taker: 1067.06 CBJSprague24: 1065.96 Yaya: 1056.02 Thinktank: 1052.62 Cocaine Bear: 1031.62 El Gallinero Gros: 1024.94 Zaroff: 1012.62 Rex Rabidorum Vires: 1012.08 tarbrush: 1008.7 ergo propter hog: 991.94 Marklar: 990.62 darkwolf220: 984.74 Jhet: 977.54 Wippersnapper: 977.46 WeaponX: 970.92 technoallah: 969.76 grack: 966.12 Boomer the Cannon: 965.38 the talent deficit: 955.16 jordan7hm: 945.74 JawKnee: 944 whatis: 933.74 seiferguy: 930.3 kilza: 912.4 tank44: 910.82 Ducknan2008: 894.72 Clean Ayers Act: 878.8 Angry Asian: 871.32 Vote1: 867.02 Starsfan: 842.94 fisting by many: 811.28
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May 3, 2022 16:15
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Congratulations to Mike_V for just barely beating out defending champion zodiackylite. He was led by big years from Jeff Skinner and Matt Duchene, years so big they were able to overcome having selected three players who didn't play in the NHL at all. But also, congratulations to literally everyone for selecting a team that scored better than the Seattle Kraken's actual selections. Every single one of you put together a superior team. You are all better than Ron Francis, and by a fairly large amount. Player awards: MVP: Alexander Ovechkin, selected only by zodiackylite, who registered a score of 169.8 LVP: Jonah Gadjovich, selected only by kilza, whose 74 penalty minutes paced him to a score of -7.2 Vezina: Anton Forsberg, selected only by Chad Sexington, whose starter role with Ottawa allowed him to accrue a score of 58.22 Mr. Nobody: Madison Bowey, severally selected, who managed no goals, no assists, no shots, and no penalties.
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May 3, 2022 16:24
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you finished a good 30 points above fisting by many. Give yourself credit for that.
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May 3, 2022 20:54
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So here's the team of ultimate losers: players who were chosen but ended up not playing any games in the NHL. Look at these players. They suck. They're awful, so bad. Imagine being one of them. Shameful. ANA – Alexander Volkov ARI – Jason Demers BOS – Kevan Miller BUF – Tobias Rieder CAR – Jake Gardiner CHI – John Quenneville DAL – Adam Mascherin DAL – Sami Vatanen DAL – Julius Honka DAL – Ben Bishop DET – Christian Djoos EDM – Oscar Klefbom EDM – Dominik Kahun LAK – Austin Wagner NSH – Frederic Allard NJD – Evan Cormier NJD – Connor Carrick NYR – Anthony Bitetto OTT – Jonathan Davidsson OTT – Mikael Wikstrand OTT – Vitaly Abramov PHI – Carsen Twarynski PHI – German Rubtsov VAN – Jake Virtanen VAN – Jayce Hawryluk WPG – Mikhail Berdin
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May 3, 2022 21:47
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