The existing Golden Knights' blue line isn't bad: Brayden McNabb from Los Angeles, Colin Miller from Boston, Jon Merrill from New Jersey and Griffin Reinhart from Edmonton. Golden Knights owner Bill Foley and general manager George McPhee announced the selections during the NHLs annual postseason awards show at T-Mobile Arena, where Vegas will begin play in the fall.
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"I'll give it everything I've got to win some games", Fleury said. The Golden Knights are Las Vegas' first franchise in a major professional sport.
The following day's picks followed a similar pattern, with the Golden Knights selecting with nine of their 10 remaining picks - one of their second round selections was sent to Columbus in exchange for 20-year-old forward prospect Keegan Kolesar, likely destined for the Chicago Wolves. Making those agreements got Vegas forward prospect Alex Tuch from the Wild, defenseman Shea Theodore from the Ducks, unsigned forward prospect Nikita Gusev from the Lightning and the 15th pick and defensive prospect Jake Bischoff from NY.
But the best was the deal with the Islanders, in which the Golden Knights passed on Strome and instead received goalie Jean-Francois Berube, centre Mikail Grabovski, defensive prospect Jake Bischoff and this year's first-round pick and a second-round pick in 2019.
The expansion draft is a celebratory night, but it only reveals a portion of the franchise-building done by McPhee over the past few months. "Going through it today, it's been a harder draft than most so it's taking some time ... three picks, it's a lot to manage and you really have to focus". And players were in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft but were not signed by an NHL team are also eligible for 2017 draft provided they were born after June 30, 1997.
Glass, from Winnipeg, Manitoba and a star with the WHL's Portland Winter Hawks, was watching the expansion draft unfold on Wednesday night and saw three fellow Manitobans selected by the Golden Knights and it got him thinking. But its a good problem to have.. Defensemen Miro Heiskanen (No. 3 overall to Dallas) and Cale Makar (No. 4 to Colorado) and right wing Owen Tippett (No. 10 to Florida) were the only exceptions.
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Rieko Ioane had a quiet first-half by his own high standards but the All Blacks speedster was a different animal after the break. The final score was 30-15 after Rhys Webb went over the line in the last play of the game before Owen Farrell converted.
Perron played in 422 regular-season games for the Blues, scoring 102 goals and tallying 142 assists for a total of 244 points.
The way the league went out of it's way to launch Las Vegas it's nearly surprising that they didn't hold the NHL Entry Draft there Friday as well. So it doesnt matter to me..
The Golden Knights also had two extra picks thanks to expansion draft trades, and used them on center Nick Suzuki (No. 13) and defenseman Erik Brannstrom (No. 15). Once New Jersey announced Hischier as the top pick, joining the likes of Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews, it became apparent Philadelphia would be going with Patrick.
"It's something I've never gone through before, it's a different experience", Eberle said. "Especially as they always look back, there's always one or two Hall of Famers in every draft". I believe fans are really going to like the team, and the trades and the draft picks and the prospects that we have. And who is it? Thats what the challenge is for any team..
A man pass a United Center entrance with NHL team logos as preparation for the NHL Draft continue, Thursday, June 22, 2017, in Chicago.
Seemingly quite comfortable going shoulder-to-shoulder with their post-season schedules that ended less than two weeks ago, the back-to-back first-round draft nights on Thursday and Friday night put the National Basketball Association and NHL back into the spotlight this week.
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