Should the Seattle NHL Team be looking at signing Frederik Andersen?
After much fanfare including reportedly selling over 10,000 season tickets in under 12 minutes the NHL in Seattle will commence in the 2020-2021 season.
A bit of history: when the Seattle Metropolitans formed in 1915 Frank and Lester Patrick stocked the team by offering salaries to players from the Toronto Blueshirts. They signed Frank Foyston, Hap Holmes, Jack Walker, Eddie Carpenter, and Cully Wilson. They won the Stanley Cup two years later in 1917.
There is always the constant threat that a team might go the route of offering sheeting RFA stars. To this end players like Elias Pettersson, Andrei Scechnikov, Filip Zadina, Rasmus Dahlin, and Jesperi Kotkaniemi are available to be offer sheeted. However offer sheeting comes at a high price - especially for an expansion team just starting off.
This leads to looking at which unrestricted free agents are available.
Here is a list of some unrestricted free agents available for the 2021/22 season.
Alex Ovechkin
Kevin Shattenkirk
Ryan Nugent-Hopkin
Frederik Andersen
Artem Anisimov
Devan Dubnyk
Zack Hyman
Players like Frederik Andersen could be available to sign and the Seattle NHL team would not have to pay compensation in terms of draft picks. Furthermore, one of the key pieces to the success of the Golden Knights has been the presence of goaltender Marc Andre Fleury. Maybe it would be a good idea for the Seattle NHL team to follow that blueprint by calling back to 1915 and signing away a star like Frederik Andersen to be the backbone of their yet to be named team.
A bit of history: when the Seattle Metropolitans formed in 1915 Frank and Lester Patrick stocked the team by offering salaries to players from the Toronto Blueshirts. They signed Frank Foyston, Hap Holmes, Jack Walker, Eddie Carpenter, and Cully Wilson. They won the Stanley Cup two years later in 1917.
There is always the constant threat that a team might go the route of offering sheeting RFA stars. To this end players like Elias Pettersson, Andrei Scechnikov, Filip Zadina, Rasmus Dahlin, and Jesperi Kotkaniemi are available to be offer sheeted. However offer sheeting comes at a high price - especially for an expansion team just starting off.
This leads to looking at which unrestricted free agents are available.
Here is a list of some unrestricted free agents available for the 2021/22 season.
Alex Ovechkin
Kevin Shattenkirk
Ryan Nugent-Hopkin
Frederik Andersen
Artem Anisimov
Devan Dubnyk
Zack Hyman
Players like Frederik Andersen could be available to sign and the Seattle NHL team would not have to pay compensation in terms of draft picks. Furthermore, one of the key pieces to the success of the Golden Knights has been the presence of goaltender Marc Andre Fleury. Maybe it would be a good idea for the Seattle NHL team to follow that blueprint by calling back to 1915 and signing away a star like Frederik Andersen to be the backbone of their yet to be named team.
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