Tag: Detroit Red Wings
A miserable third period sunk the Golden Knights after looking pretty good through two. 2nd period goals by Erik Haula, James Neal, and Jonathan Marchessault gave the Golden Knights a 3-2 lead after 40 minutes. Then the third period happened… 4 goals on 12 shots, and Vegas was no longer undefeated.
Upcoming stories from the Vegas Golden Knights vs. Detroit Red Wings at T-Mobile Arena.
- Poor stretches, power play struggles, and simply out-talented; it’s gonna happen from time to time, even to the not so great teams.
- Recapping the opening ceremonies and the mascot.
- Photo gallery from the game.
- Red Wings players loved them some T-Mobile Arena.
Three stars
*** Erik Haula
** Gustav Nyquist
* Henrik Zetterberg
Gary Bettman is at it again. Speaking this time at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference the commish was asked a few questions on expansion.
At this point we’ve basically heard Gary Bettman say the same thing a hundred times in different ways. Something like this from that conference of geeks…
There’s been a lot of speculation about it. We have two applications, one from Quebec City and one from Las Vegas. That’s exactly what we expected when we began the process. – Gary Bettman
However, one geek pressed a little harder, asking Bettman about realignment and how it may work if Quebec City is awarded a franchise. Bettman confirmed something we’ve never heard before.
We’re going to have to look at (geography). If, for example, you’re a fan of the Red Wings or the Blue Jackets, you should know your club, under no circumstances, is moving back to the West. So one of the factors we’re going to have to evaluate is, depending on how the owners want to do expansion — if they want to do expansion at all — how do you deal with alignment? That’s one of the things we need to talk about.
The first step to our mock draft is to establish the list of players that will be available for the Las Vegas franchise to draft. To do this, we decided to have a blogger from each team represent their own franchise and select the players that will be protected from the Mock Expansion Draft available player pool. To see the rules which were followed to protect players, hit this link.
Due to time constraints, our own Dana Lane has taken on the task of completely the rosters for each of the remaining teams. Next up is the Detroit Red Wings.
Protected Players
- G – Petr Mrazek
- F – Henrik Zetterberg
- F – Justin Abdelkader
- F – Pavel Datsyuk
- F – Gustav Nyquist
- F – Tomas Tatar
- F – Dylan Larkin
- F – Brad Richards
- F – Riley Sheahan
- F – Eric Tangradi
- D – Niklas Kronwall
- D – Robbie Russo
- D – Xavier Ouellet
- D – Nathan Paetsch
- D – Mike Green
The entire list of unprotected players that will be available for Team Lane and Team Pothier to select from can be found here.
To see more team explanations just like this one, check out The Sin Bin Mock Expansion Draft Landing Page.
Special thanks again to Dana Lane for picking up the slack. Show your appreciation by following @DanaLaneSports on Twitter, and heck, throw us (@SinBinVegas) a follow too while you’re at it.
