Quote:Originally posted by grimmsterj@Jul 8 2015, 05:33 PM
I like 15. Just using Seattle as an example:

CoC (1580)
Kylrad (1232)
Koskinen (1234)
Winter (992)
Mckeil (854)
Nikitin (1001)
Leo (1034)
Flamel(875)
Brojled(938)
Bodnar(847)
Manning(812)

And younger guys

Ziepens (S23) (467)
Karlensons (S22) (673)
Bursyuk (S22) (748)
Urbowicz (S21) (583)

This leaves:

G - Osgoode (423)
Parker (590)
Miller (496)
Pomery (414)

I know Seattle is a little higher in TPE than other teams but this seems pretty fair to everyone.

Yep. This is pretty realisitic. If I'm a GM of an expansion draft team, I'm thrilled to be getting any of those leftovers. Hell, when I first came to Manhattan if someone had said, hey you get your player and 4 free players of 400-600 TPE, I would have danced for joy. And that's just one roster.

Not to mention, expansion is going to be what like 2 new franchises to start? They realisitcally only need 16-18 skaters themselves. That's 36 players from 12 current SHL franchises on the high end. Plus they'll still own picks in the regular Entry draft. (Likely lottery selections, no?)

Ideally, each SHL team loses one or two middling assets. And then we give expansion teams supplemental picks at the end of the first round (or something to this effect) in addition to their lottery picks and all of a sudden they have enough to field teams and enough specs that they can be at the very least competitive within 3 seasons.