2021 Mock Expansion Draft

This will be the first of three mock expansion drafts between now and june 2021.

2021 mock expansion draft. This expansion draft could help teams in a salary cap crunch like the toronto maple leafs tampa bay lightning and winnipeg jets. The players drafted were under the 81 5mil salary cap limit 77 183mil that is a 600k increase from the original mock draft i completed. Create your own 2021 nfl mock draft with the draft network s mock draft machine.

The oilers would probably love it if the kraken would select a player on the roster who is a bottom six player with a chunky cap hit. To clarify this series of mocks will be pretending that the expansion draft is today with seattle starting play this coming season and that capfriendly s tool. Because the nhl won t start its next season until approximately new year s day the originally scheduled june 2021 time frame for the expansion draft is highly unlikely.

Similar to my first mock draft some players were available that i believe will not be when the actual nhl expansion draft begins at the end of the 2020 2021 regular season. When picking the team i felt it was important to be as realistic as possible so i decided to stick under the 81 5 million cap that will likely extend into next year. Here is your seattle kraken team for the 2021 22 nhl season courtesy of the score.

Welcome to pacific northwest sports second seattle kraken way too early mock expansion draft. Nhl seattle is slated to make its expansion draft selections about one year from now ahead of their inaugural season in 2021 22. Having said that seattle will be required to pick 20 players that are already under contract for the 2021 22 campaign.

Seattle expansion mock draft. A mock expansion draft serves an interesting thought exercise. Seattle gets the same rules as the golden knights did in the 2017 nhl expansion draft.

Whether covid 19 will push those dates back is another conversation but for the sports junkies like me who also grew up on the be a gm modes of the video game universe we can hardly wait to see another round of league wide roster chaos like that which ensued when. Setting stage for mock series. Even though it will mean losing a good player it will help free up cap space.