For some NHL teams, the upcoming expansion draft is going to be very stressful. Some teams have more players they'd like to keep than spots to protect them with.
This has created - more than anything - a bottomless well of blogging topics: who will or won't get protected etc. So i'll spare you the time and jump straight to the point:
The Coyotes don't have anyone to protect and so they should rent players from other teams in exchange for draft picks.
The NHL mandates that you can protect 11 players if they are 7F + 3D + 1G or you can protect nine, but it can be any combination of skaters + 1G.
Here is who the Coyotes have worth protecting:
Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Anthony Duclair
Here is who they have to protect because of is no movement clause:
Alex Goligoski.
Other than that, I guess they might as well also protect Tobias Reider, and Jordan Martinook, since they have so many spots. All their other good players are first or second year players and thus exempt.
So that's four players out of either nine or eleven. Of course, if they don't rent out their spots, they can protect Domingue, Richardson and whatever other guys they want to, but who cares if you lose those guys?
Unless there is a rule that you can't trade a player right back to his old team, the Coyotes should do a series of trades to prevent the Las Vegas team from getting good players.
The Ducks are pretty screwed, what if they traded the Coyotes Fowler and Silverberg for future considerations, and then traded them back to the Ducks the day after the expansion draft for a second-round pick?
They could make five or six of these trades and bring in a haul of late round lottery tickets.
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I had a Visa gift card and I ordered some CDs. But what's interesting is that you order used cds off Amazon for a buck or two, pay three bucks for shipping, and then get a serious amount of music delivered to you pretty quickly.
The best part is that since you are buying from a whole bunch of different people, you get a package every day. Getting mail is fun. What's better is that I've filled the hole left in my heart when my dear friends at Columbia House went out of business a decade ago.
For fifteen or so years, from the time I was 10 to the time I was 25 or so, I was the best customer Columbia House ever had.
Just this morning I ran into the mailman on my way to work and he gave me a CD for the ride. What times we live in!
I got a De La Soul cd I had on tape when I was eight. Let me tell you, hearing music that you haven't heard in twenty-somthing years, but which is still their in the memory banks, however slightly, is an experience.
Anyways, I used the entire gift card to fill all the wholes in my collection of classic hip-hop albums - I got some Slick Rick, Liquid Swords, UGK, Cuban Links, Eric B.......say what you will about the decline of retail civilization, for the discerning music fan still inexplicably buying hard-copies, the internet makes for a fantastic record store.
That said, I do try to support my local record stores - but they don't support me. Their prices are high, their selection is low and they're staffed by duds who don't even know what I'm talking about. Just last week I was shocked when local record store clerk "Jeff" didn't know who Townes van Zandt was.
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