08-21-2021, 10:05 AMGeekusoid Wrote: Hey there Rinky I can shed some light on this.

Rinky was part of an overall expansion draft deal that was negotiated in order to keep you on Colorado. Sure, you could have been protected by your GM, but for whatever reason you weren’t. 

We could have kept you on the Grizzlies and not have batted an eye, however for us being a new expansion team, PICKS are our valuable currency.

So the deal was negotiated:  we select you to protect and keep you in Colorado in exchange for an IA player and a multitude of picks to help us fill out our roster.

Raiden was extremely pleasant to work with (Wulf has great relations with him, as do I from WJC/IIHF) so it was logical for us to jump on this mutually beneficial endeavor.

Hope that clears some things up.

Thanks.  That is what I kinda figured.  I wouldn't have objected to playing with The Griz, btw