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[kimmer]

wew dapollos you life saver

[Bruyns]

wew dapollos you life saver

Protecting Rodrigues and Sutter over Dahlen was a choice.

[DApolloS]

wew dapollos you life saver

Protecting Rodrigues and Sutter over Dahlen was a choice.

I also own Dahlen in another league and think Clague has a better chance of developing into a solid player.

[CasperX22]

We will disagree on that, but no way either Dahlen or Clague should have been exposed

[DApolloS]

I also had a lot of forwards compared to D so getting an exempt D prospect was nice.

[Shoalzie]

What's interesting with Dahlen is he's one of the few RFA/reserve list players that were eligible for the draft. The Sharks signed him to a contract on Monday. He was unsigned and played in Europe last year and he was flipped at the deadline from Vancouver.

I wonder if the Sharks will protect him.

[CasperX22]

Who else are the sharks going to protect?

[DApolloS]

I think Karlsson has to be, I've heard rumblings of Burns being exposed, but who knows.

[Shoalzie]

Who else are the sharks going to protect?

Odds are they'll do 7 F / 3 D because they have expose either Burns or Simek since they're signed for next year and Karlsson and Vlasic are NMC.

They'll have an interesting choice at forward because they have only 5 forwards that meet the exposure requirements...Couture, Kane, Meier, Hertl and Labanc. Dahlen would make sense one of their 7 forwards.

[Shoalzie]

Who else are the sharks going to protect?

Odds are they'll do 7 F / 3 D because they have to expose either Burns or Simek since they're signed for next year and Karlsson and Vlasic are NMC.

They'll have an interesting choice at forward because they have only 5 forwards that meet the exposure requirements...Couture, Kane, Meier, Hertl and Labanc. Dahlen would make sense one of their 7 forwards.

[Bruyns]

Who else are the sharks going to protect?

Odds are they'll do 7 F / 3 D because they have to expose either Burns or Simek since they're signed for next year and Karlsson and Vlasic are NMC.

They'll have an interesting choice at forward because they have only 5 forwards that meet the exposure requirements...Couture, Kane, Meier, Hertl and Labanc. Dahlen would make sense one of their 7 forwards.

From the Sharks beat writer

Timo Meier
Kevin Labanc
Rudolfs Balcers
Jonathan Dahlen
Logan Couture
Evander Kane
Tomas Hertl

Marc-Edouard Vlasic
Erik Karlsson
Brent Burns

Josef Korenar

[Shoalzie]

They'll have to sign a couple of their free agents to be able to protect all 5 of Couture, Kane, Meier, Hertl and Labanc. Maybe guys like Nieto or Sorensen or Gambrell get signed just to be exposed.

Unlike our rules, you have to expose 2 forwards and 1 defenseman that are both 27/54 compliant and signed for next year.

[Bruyns]

They'll have to sign a couple of their free agents to be able to protect all 5 of Couture, Kane, Meier, Hertl and Labanc. Maybe guys like Nieto or Sorensen or Gambrell get signed just to be exposed.

Unlike our rules, you have to expose 2 forwards and 1 defenseman that are both 27/54 compliant and signed for next year.

"We’re assuming here that the Sharks will re-sign restricted free agent Dylan Gambrell and unrestricted free agent Matt Nieto in order to fulfill the requirement to expose at least two experienced forwards to the Kraken. Both of those players, even if they aren’t selected, could still be useful to the Sharks next season — Gambrell as a fourth-line center, and Nieto as a depth winger and penalty-killer."

[Handsome&FairMike]

Figured I’d lose savard or Toews - haula or radulov were others. Will miss the peripherals but hopefully montour can fill some of them.

[DApolloS]

I like Toews, but having no idea what happened this year and what kind of shape he's in or if he'll even come back, too many unkowns.

[Da_Hawks]

You must really like Prosvetsov to take him and picks over Kyrou or Backtrom

[Handsome&FairMike]

I like Toews, but having no idea what happened this year and what kind of shape he's in or if he'll even come back, too many unkowns.

Exactly why I left him exposed. If he does return great for me but also puts me in a cap grind. Hopefully yandle gets bought out.

[DApolloS]

You must really like Prosvetsov to take him and picks over Kyrou or Backtrom

I think he's got upside, but it isn't just Prosvetov for Backstrom or Kyrou. There's also a 2nd and a 4th and Foegele. I still get a decent fantasy NHLer and pieces to build my franchise up.

[DApolloS]

Just in case someone tries to kick up a storm, all of the trades I announce during the draft have already been agreed to and there has been no negotiations that have happened since we kicked things off. The posts are simply to make them official for records sake.

[Handsome&FairMike]

Interesting forbort over terry