I think this is an excellent chance for Hagen. Hope she is able to capitalize. I also did not recognize her poofy hair/bun-less.
Actually no we don't. Now that Portland has been given power, every other team in the league has to be VERY careful that Portland doesn't pull a fast one and pick someone else. I mean, the way it had been construed before, everything seems like links in a chain. This seems more like a powder keg.
They can't control that now as Portland has the power. They may not even select a national team player. So Orlando may as yet still get two NT players. Either way, I want to know when it became ok to trade expansion draft picks. Why not just throw all this away and make it possible to buy players with cash?
This is true. It's also potentially very smart for Orlando to maybe have "leaked" Klingenberg's name to force the Klingenberg trade and potentially leave other Seattle players open in the expansion draft.
Because at least this way they can have effective free agency without officially breaking the single-entity facade?
But from Seattle point of view this could actually work in their favor. With the Cox retirement, they now need a left back and got a quality one for relatively cheap. If they still lose two more players but get to keep Kling, I still consider that a win.
A lot of this stuff gets worked out in advance. If a team promises one thing and then does another, it will piss off a lot of people, and hurt potential transactions in the future.
Yes, I am forgoing a trip to Costco to ensure I can monitor the "fun" in real time. Ridiculous . I am going to have to go back and read those rules in the meantime.
The protection lists must already be in. And the other teams had to be aware that it was possible to trade expansion picks. More specificially, I'm sure all (ok, maybe not Boston but most) were aware of the deal and how it would go down. Expansion drafts always work like this. Orlando made like four deals in the MLS expansion draft, even having Portland agree to pay half of Ricketts salary if Orlando would take him off their hands. So this is an unusal way to handle it, but I'm sure all parties were aware. So I would be shocked if Portland acquires anyone other than Kling with that first pick.
I mean, yeah I'm expecting them to do so. Paulson definitely seems like he wants to do what's best to help NWSL grow. However, I also kinda see the Thorns organization as thinking they can get away with a lot.... It would be the first real drama NWSL has ever seen! Same here... Watching all other teams really, truly scramble for the first time to make sense of something would be highly engaging to watch. And give more justification for my dislike of Portland. X-D
So, digging a little deeper, the Thorns' article on the trade says they get the first pick in the Expansion Draft, while the Pride article (and the Equalizer article) says it's "rights to" the first pick, which someone on EQ said that means Orlando still makes the pick, but then I guess that player would be instantly sent to Portland.... In which case, Orlando would alternatively have the opportunity to incredibly screw over Portland. But while I'm not convinced of the "rights" thing, it sounds even more convoluted than the alternative, it does fit more with the notion that the expansion picks themselves can't be traded.
So, according to the Orlando release, Portland gets "only" the first pick in the expansion draft, first pick in the college draft and one internation slot for the next two seasons 2016 and 2017. No mention of allocation order or a second internation slot.