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# Thursday FTB: Tanev traded, the PWHL goes gold
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/thursday-ftb-gold-drafting-tanev-to-dallas/
- Published: 2024-02-29T11:00:14.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-29T11:00:13.000Z
- Description: Happy Leap Thursday, everyone. Get ready for the Coyotes.
- Author: Cathy Squires
- Tags: From The Branches

Yesterday the PWHL released some information on the draft for next season:

[PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S HOCKEY LEAGUE (PWHL) ANNOUNCES INNOVATIVE FORMATS FOR PLAYOFFS AND DRAFT ORDER OF SELECTION![](https://www.thepwhl.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/cropped-pwhl-512-270x270.png)Professional Women's Hockey Leagueamclellan![](https://www.thepwhl.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/MicrosoftTeams-image-1-copy-3-1-1024x576.jpg)](https://www.thepwhl.com/en/professional-womens-hockey-league-pwhl-announces-innovative-formats-for-playoffs-and-draft-order-of-selection?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

The PWHL has six teams, and four will make the playoffs. Details are: 

- the 1st place team in the regular season picks its semifinal opponent out of the 3rd and 4th place finishers
- overtime will be five-on-five periods of sudden death in the playoffs and series will be best of five.
- the PWHL will use "Gold" drafting which means that as soon as a team is "mathematically" eliminated from making the playoffs, their regulation wins earn them points towards their final draft position. Whoever gets the most Draft Order Points gets to pick first overall in the June draft
- the other non-playoff team picks second.
- the playoff teams are set in draft order in the inverse of the regular season standings and this order of all six teams persists for all seven rounds of the draft

In NHL news, there's a goalie on waivers!

> Placed on NHL waivers today: Cal Petersen (PHI).
> 
> — Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) [February 28, 2024](https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1762916858347364383?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

This is a very "endpoints, choose your endpoints" sort of thing, but it's also a good way to contextualize why Jets fans might not be buying in: 

> NHL’s highest scoring forwards at 5v5 over 5 seasons combined (min 500 minutes): [pic.twitter.com/1EJnPh6AxU](https://t.co/1EJnPh6AxU?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Garret Hohl (@GarretHohl) [February 28, 2024](https://twitter.com/GarretHohl/status/1762934480963281284?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/34/01/3401a938-f468-4c02-a227-9bc4cc09bad4/content/images/2024/02/Capture-1.PNG)

This is all-situations TOI

Maybe someday Nik Ehlers will try hard and get played more, eh? Until then watch the biggest team in the NHL hit some guys. (I have no idea if they are, they used to be, and they used to seem to want everyone to know it.)

The Jets are [last in attendance](https://www.hockeydb.com/nhl-attendance/att%5Fgraph%5Fseason.php?lid=NHL1927&sid=2024&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) this year for teams playing in NHL rinks. And even allowing for the size of theirs, 17,000 or so, it's bad. This is an ongoing problem that winning isn't fixing.

Speaking of the Jets, the Coyotes are on tap tonight, and I'm so sorry to say you missed this: 

> 🔥CLEARANCE SALE FINAL HOURS 🔥  
>  
> Our 30% OFF EVERYTHING sale ends TONIGHT 🚨😮  
>  
> Don’t miss out! Shop the PHNX Locker NOW before it’s too late! ⬇️👀  
> 🛒: [https://t.co/usGvrmXnBN](https://t.co/usGvrmXnBN?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) [pic.twitter.com/NSgSHtcM1w](https://t.co/NSgSHtcM1w?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — PHNX Coyotes (@PHNX\_Coyotes) [February 28, 2024](https://twitter.com/PHNX%5FCoyotes/status/1762976023430177115?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

If you want to know what Craig Button thinks...

> The [#Yotes](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Yotes?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) are a disaster on the ice right now, having lost 13 consecutive games, and are possibly an even bigger mess off of it.[@CraigJButton](https://twitter.com/CraigJButton?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) puts them in 'The Smokehouse (presented by [@MontanasBBQ](https://twitter.com/MontanasBBQ?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)) and roasts their continued failures in Arizona: [https://t.co/3eoFSFPxcO](https://t.co/3eoFSFPxcO?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) [pic.twitter.com/7c8TuMXrAf](https://t.co/7c8TuMXrAf?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — TSN Hockey (@TSNHockey) [February 29, 2024](https://twitter.com/TSNHockey/status/1763000042997092599?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

The Wild negotiated the termination of their players contract after the KHL regular season:

> Welcome to Minnesota, Marat! ✍️  
>  
> We've signed forward Marat Khusnutdinov to a two-year, entry-level contract!   
>  
> More » [https://t.co/JnAUi2zUnZ](https://t.co/JnAUi2zUnZ?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) [#mnwild](https://twitter.com/hashtag/mnwild?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) [pic.twitter.com/YLjb4RJsCQ](https://t.co/YLjb4RJsCQ?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) [February 28, 2024](https://twitter.com/mnwild/status/1762923160083562635?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

> While criminal charges are a matter of public record, neither the Peterborough Police Service nor the Petes informed the public that one of the OHL team’s billets was charged with sexual exploitation.   
> Billets have been advised by the Petes that another billet may face criminal… [https://t.co/7cVdHzlnat](https://t.co/7cVdHzlnat?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Rick Westhead (@rwesthead) [February 29, 2024](https://twitter.com/rwesthead/status/1763036131367485609?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Tomorrow marks one week until the trade deadline and last night marked the first complex trade: 

> Perfect breakdown from Owen on how exactly the retainment works. There's a new wrinkle - teams can't trade cap space for future considerations any longer, so unsigned pick Cole Brady had to go from NJD to CGY (then to Dallas) to make it all happen. [https://t.co/FOoab0RnQj](https://t.co/FOoab0RnQj?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Frank Seravalli (@frank\_seravalli) [February 29, 2024](https://twitter.com/frank%5Fseravalli/status/1763021107638997219?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Not sure why the Flames didn't take back an even older pending UFA and sign him for 8 years at double his worth.