Expansion Draft Protected Lists (Vegas)

[Philadelphia Flyers]

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Forwards

1. Gustav Nyqvist
2. Tomas Vanek
3. Frans Nielsen
4. David Perron
5. Michael Frolik
6. Andrew Shaw
7. Brian Boyle


Defensemen

1. Karl Alzner
2. Mike Green
3. Kris Russell

Goalie

1. Cam Talbot

Exempt

Connor Mcdavid
Sam Reinhart
Noah Hanifin
Pierre-Luc Dubois
Laurent Dauphin
Nick Baptiste
Sebastian Colberg
Brendan Guhle
Brett Pollock
C.J. Smith
Casey Nelson
Jansen Harkins
Juuse Saros
Kasper Bjorkqvist
Linus Soderstrom
Morgan Klimchuck
Max Gortz

5 Unprotected Prospects

1. Quentin Shore
2. Sami Niku
3. Vili Saarijarvi
4. Jonathan MacLeod
5. Cole Bardreau

Minimum Exposed



1. D, Brayden McNabb
2. G, Calvin Pickard
3. F, Jamie McGinn
4. F, Lauri Korpikoski
5. F, Benoit Pouliot
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Forwards

1. Tomas Plekanec
2. Sean Couturier
3. Gabriel Landeskog
4. Loui Eriksson
5. Andre Burakovsky
6. Mikael Backlund
7. Mikhail Grigorenko

Defensemen

1. PK Subban,
2. Adam Larsson
3. Carl Gunnarsson


Goalie

1. Anton Forsberg

Exempt

Nylander, Rust, McGinn

5 Unprotected Prospects

Brian Hart, Christopher Gibson, Curtis Hamilton, James Melindy and Marc-Olivier Roy

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Forwards

Jeff Carter
Zach Parise
Daniel Sedin
Henrik Sedin
Derick Brassard
Artem Anisimov
Nick Bjugstad

Defensemen

Justin Faulk
TJ Brodie
Nick Leddy

Goalie

Henrik Lundqvist

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Matthew Peca
Evan Rodrigues
Andrew Mangiapane
Connor Hobbs
Maxim Shalunov

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Forwards

1. Brad Marchand
2.  Bo Horvat
3. Milan Lucic
4. J.T. Miller
5. David Backes
6. Jakub Silfverberg
7. Alex Killorn

Defensemen

1. Roman Josi
2. Drew Doughty
3. Torey Krug

Goalie

1. Tuukka Rask

Exempt

Shea Theodore, Colton Sissons, Joonas Kemppainen, Hunter Smith, Nikita Tryamkin, Frank Vatrano, Nole Acciari, Justin Hickman, Austin Czarnik

5 Unprotected Prospects

Bryce Gervais
Connor Chatham
Matt Mistele
Chris Carlisle
Michael Garteig


Exposed

Mikkel Boedker, Darren Helm, Matt Hunwick, Kevan Miller, Chad Johnson, Philipp Grubauer, Jay Bouwmeester, Dustin Jeffery, Alex Khokolachev, , Stefan Noensen , Brian Flynn, Dalton Smith, Cameron Gaunce, Kurtis Gabriel, Anton Slepyshev, Matt Taormina, Harri Sateri, Philip McRae, Christopher Wagner,


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Forwards

1 - Ryan Spooner
2 - Bobby Ryan
3 - Marko Dano
4 - Chris Tierney
5 - Oscar Lindberg
6 - Tobias Reider

Defensemen

1. Klahs Dahlbeck
2. Tyler Wotherspoon

Goalie

1. Anthony Stolarz

Exempt

Slater Koekkoek - ELC

Jaccob Slavin - ELC
Mitch Marner - ELC
Vrana - ELC
Boesser - ELC
Bljus - ELC

5 Unprotected Prospects


G - Jake Patterson
D - Carl Dahlstrom
D - Dominik Masin
F - Chris Calnan
F - Harrison Ruop

Minimum Exposed

G - Kari Ramo

G - Jack Campbell *under contract for 2017/18 season*

G - Ben Scrivens

F - Matt Beleskey *under contract for 2017/18 season, meets NHL games requirement*

F - Matt Read *under contract for 2017/18 season, meets NHL games requirement*

D - Ian Cole *under contact for 2017/18 season, meets NHL games requirement*
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Forwards

1. Claude Giroux
2. Vladimir Tarasenko
3. Patrice Bergeron
4. Victor Rask
5. Mike Cammalleri
6. Michael Grabner
7. Shane Prince

Defensemen

1. Brent Burns
2. Shea Weber
3. Shayne Gostisbehere

Goalie

1. Jimmy Howard

Exempt

Nikita Zaitsev, Kevin Lebanc, Philip Di Giuseppe, Markus Nutivaara, Lucas Wallmark

5 Unprotected Prospects

Jack Sadek, Juho Lammikko, Stepan Falkovsky, Gustav Bouramman, Roman Lyubimov

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Forwards

Filip forsberg
James Neal
Tyler bozak
Ryan o'reilly
Phil kessel
James van riemsdyk
Zach smith

Defensemen

Jared spurgeon
Michael del zotto
Matt dumba

Goalie

1. Marc-Andre Fleury

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

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Forwards

Joe Thornton
Mikko Koivu
David Krejci
David Pastrnak

Defensemen

Jack Johnson
Dan Girardi
Calvin de Haan
Jonas Brodin

Goalie

Carey Price

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Dominic Turgeon
Lukas Bengtsson
Jack Glover
Nikita Pavlychev
Jacob Moverare

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Forwards

1. Jaromir Jagr
2. John Tavares
3. Aleksander Barkov
4. Eric Staal
5. Tyler Toffoli
6. Jonathan Drouin
7. Josh Bailey


Defensemen

1. Mattias Ekholm
2. Dustin Byfuglien
3. Jacob Trouba


Goalie

Corey Crawford

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Avery Peterson
Christopher Clapperton
Brandon Duhaime
Garret Ross
Rhett Gardner

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Skaters

1. Alexander Radulov
2. Teemu Pulkkinen
3. Beau Bennett
4. Darnell Nurse
5. Brett Pesce
6. Derrick Pouliot
7. Duncan Siemens
8. Tuomo Ruutu

Goalie

1. Sergei Bobrovsky

Exempt

Mikko Rantanen, Lawson Crouse, Miro Aaltonen, Pavel Zacha, Christian Fischer, Conor Garland, Alex Tuch, Brady Skjei, Ville Pokka, Samuel Morin, Christian Djoos, Jon Gillies, Nick Ellis.

5 Unprotected Prospects

Alexander Dergachyov, Anatoli Golyshev, Sam Vigneault, Joni Tuulola, Lucas Carlsson

Exposed

Marian Gaborik, Reid Boucher, Tyler Kennedy, Robert Burtuzzo, Anders Lindback, Alex Stalock.


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Skaters

1. Steven Stamkos
2. Taylor Hall
3. Kyle Palmeiri
4. Valeri Nichushkin
5. Aaron Ekblad
6. Oscar Klefbom
7. Ryan Murray
8. Cody Ceci


Goalie

1. Michael Hutchinson

Exempt

John Gibson, Ryan Pulock, Magnus Hellberg, Michal Jordan, Kenney Morrison, Chandler Stephenson, Jujhar Khaira

5 Unprotected Prospects

Ryan Martindale, Maxime Lajoie, Brandon Whitney, Samuel Blais, Lukas Jasek

Exposed

Andrew Cogliano, Matt Martin, Dustin Brown, Brett Connolly, Josh Gorges, Nick Shultz, Y. Medvedev, Eddie Lack, Andreas Martinsen, Tyler Pitlick, Marek Mazanec, Andrey Makarov.

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Forwards

1.Marcus Johansson
2. Bryan Little
3.Kyle Okposo
4.Cam Atkinson
5.Tomas Tatar
6.Ondrej Palat
7. Paul Byron

Defensemen

1. Mark Giordano
2.Sami Vatanen
3. Josh Manson

Goalie

1. Ryan Miller

Exempt

Ben Chiarot, Blake Pietila, Kyle Baun,

5 Unprotected Prospects

Brad Morrison, Frederik Karlstrom, Roman Dyukov, Trevor Moore, Glenn Gawdin

Exposed minimum: Mark Visetin, Komarov, Chimera, Raffl, Goligoski, Campbell, Schmidt,
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Forwards

Nicklas Backstrom
Paul Stastny
Derek Stepan
Johnathan Gaudreau
Adam Henrique
Blake Wheeler
Casey Cizikas

Defensemen

Duncan Keith
Kris Letang
Alec Martinez

Goalie

1. Craig Anderson

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects


Calle Andersson
Jeremy Gregoire
Sergei Boikov
Tim Clifton
Vincent Dunn
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Skaters

1. Mika Zibanejad
2. Marcus Kruger
3. Matt Stajan
4. Simon Despres (required)
5. Cam Fowler
6. Dmitry Kulikov
7. Robert Hagg
8. Derek Forbort

Goalie

1. Cam Ward

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Clark Bishop, Louis Belpedio, Spencer Watson, Nelson Nogier, Nick Lappin.
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Forwards


Kopitar
MacKinnon
Voracek
Simmonds
Kucherov
Nelson
Haula

Defensemen

Karlsson
OEL
Hjalmarsson
Goalie

1. Vasilevsky

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Connor Bleackley
Brian Ferlin
John Draeger
Mikael Wikstrand
Maxim Lazarev

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Forwards

1. Trochek
2. Johnson
3. Eller
4. D.Shore
5. Pacioretty
6. Rakell
7. Ferland

Defensemen

1. Myers
2. Beaulieu
3. Dumoulin

Goalie

1. Robin Lehner

Exempt
Danault, Cramarossa, Andrightetto, Dumont.

5 Unprotected Prospects
McFarlane, Didier, Lernout, Bozon and Archambault

Exposed
Desjardins, Pyatt, King, Pominville, Liles, Enstrom, Y.Weber, Halak, Burmistrov, Bollig, Hallischuk, Nolan, klasen, zengerle, avtsin
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Skaters

1. Rasmus Ristolainen
2. Morgan Rielly
3. Connor Carrick
4. Joe Morrow
5. Bradyen Coburn
6. Brendon Dillon
7. Richard Panik
8. Nik Kronwall

Goalie

1. Mike Smith

Exempt

Petr Mrazek, Joseph Blandisi, Zach Hyman, Brendan Leipsic, Jared McCann, Darren Dietz, Alan Quine, Carter Verhaeghe, Jason Dickinson, Hunter Shinkaruk, Tobias Lindberg, Scott Kosmachuk, Ryan Haggerty, Trevor Carrick, Brett Kulak, Brady Austin, Patrick Sieloff, Antoine Bibeau

5 Unprotected Prospects

Troy Terry, Jake Bischoff, Colton Point, Joey Laleggia, Nicholas Caamano

Exposed

Josh Jooris, Ryan Garbutt, Nik Kronwall, Marc Staal, Mike McKenna.
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Forwards

Ryan Kesler
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Evander Kane
Mike Hoffman
Mikael Granlund
Patric Hornqvist
Brandon Dubinsky


Defensemen

Jake Muzzin
Dougie hamilton
Dmitry Orlov

Goalie

Matt Murray

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Nicolas Aube-Kubel , Thomas Schemitsch , Alex Dostie , Jens Looke , Jeremy Helvig

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Forwards

1. Sean Monahan
2. Ryan Strome
3. Sam Bennett
4. Brandon Saad
5. Patrick Eaves
6. Pat Maroobn
7. Mark Letestu

Defensemen

1. Johnny Boychuk
2. Ryan Ellis
3. Radko Gudas

Goalie

1. Scott Darling

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Doyle Somerby, Johan Sundstrom, Radel Fazleev, Zach Nastasiuk, Simon Bourque

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Forwards

1. Jonathan Marchessault
2. Valtteri Filppula
3. Tom Wilson
4. Trevor Lewis
5. Scott Wilson
6. Seth Griffith
7. Nicolas Kerdiles

Defensemen


1. Seth Jones
2. Johan Alm
3. David Rundblad

Goalie

1. Frederik Andersen

Exempt

Leon Draisaitl
Nikolaj Ehlers
Colton Parayko
Michael Matheson
Connor Brown
Anthony Mantha
Nick Paul
Frederik Gauthier
Malcolm Subban

5 Unprotected Prospects

Christoph Bertschy
Michael McNiven
Mark Friedman
Zac Lynch
Matt Filipe

Exposed Minimum

Chris Stewart
Andy Andreoff
Jamie Oleksiak
Tristan Jarry
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Skaters

1. Nick Foligno
2. Joe Pavelski
3. Jordan Eberle
4. Jonathan Toews
5. Ryan Suter
6. Zach Bogosian
7. Justin Schultz
8. Zdeno Chara


Goalie

1. Laurent Broissot

Exempt

Hellebuyck, Sundqvist, Plachta, Prokhorkin, Sorensen, Laurikainen, Wolanin, Kukan, Simpson, Comrie, Cederholm, Platzer, Niemelainen, Noel, Bengtsson, O'Gara, Dove-McFalls, Gettinger, Dunn, McPhee

5 Unprotected Prospects

Bernhardt, Bengtsson, Tammela, Vainonen, Kozun

Exposed:

Exposed Forwards: Ladd, Moulson, Fehr, Stalberg, Yakimov, Simon, Leblanc, Lander

Exposed Defensemen: Davidson, Jeff Schultz, Lowe, Ozhiganov

Exposed Goalie: Lassisnanntti


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Forwards

1. Matt Duchene
2. Jamie Benn
3. Alex Galchenyuk
4. Shane Doan
5. Mike Ribiero
6. Jesper Fast
7. Magnus Paajarvi

Defensemen

1. Alex Pietrangelo
2. Jake Gardiner
3. Kevin Bieksa

Goalie

1. Cory Schneider

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Evan Smith, Justin Scott, Tate Olson, Luke Opilka, Chris Martenet

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Skaters

1. Alex Burrows
2. John Moore
3. Matt Nieto
4. Matt Greene
5. Nathan Walker
6. Tyler Gaudet
7. Viktor Svedberg
8. Brian Lashoff

Goalie

1. Antti Niemi

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Brandon Tanev, Matt O'Connor, Matt Grzelcyk, Noah Rod, Linus Arnesson.
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Forwards

Jordan Staal
Martin Hanzal
Nail Yakupov
Corey Perry
Brendan Gallagher
Kevin Hayes
Chris Kreider

Defensemen

Tyson Barrie
David Savard
Keith Yandle

Goalie

Jake Allen

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Hargrove, Prow, Kelleher, Anas, Gilmour

Unprotected Minimum

G- Bachman
D- Greene or Emelin
F- Hartnell
F- Devante Smith-Pelly

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Forwards

1. Travis Zajac
2. Jaden Schwartz
3. Jason Spezza
4. Calle Jarnkrok
5. Vladislav Namestnikov
6. Troy Brouwer
7. Zack Kassian

Defensemen

1. Ryan McDonagh
2. Erik Johnson
3. Alex Petrovic

Goalie

. Ben Bishop

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects


Sam Brittain
Kevin Sundher
Joe Basaraba
Christoffer Ehn
Alex Roach
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Forwards

1. Kyle Turris
2. Ryan Johansen
3. Alex Wennberg
4. Elias Lindholm
5. Tanner Pearson
6. Charlie Coyle
7.Oliver Bjorkstrand

Defensemen

1. John Klingberg
2. M-E Vlasic
3. Brandon Montour

Goalie

1. Devan Dubnyk

Exempt

Robby Fabbri, Nic Ritchie, Joonas Donskoi, Jake Virtanen, Jayce Hawryluk, Sonny Milano, M Dal Colle, Brendan Perlini, Ryan Graves, Jan Kostalek, Travis Dermott, Ian McCoshen, Mike Kapla, Veeti Vainio, Rasmus Andersson, Vadislav Gavrikov, Jonas Siegenthaler, Andrew Nielsen, Anton Lindholm, Anthony DeAngelo, Vitek Vanecek, Adam Wilcox

5 Unprotected Prospects

Adam Huska, Cavan Fitzgerald, Jesper Bratt, Mitchell Vande Sompel, Riley Stillman
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Forwards

Mark Scheifele
Alexander Steen
Nino Neiderreiter
Tomas Hertl
Nick Bonino
Chris Kunitz
Michael Chaput

Defensemen

Brent Seabrook
Olli Maatta
Andrej Sekera

Goalie

1. Thomas Greiss

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Austin Carroll
Casey Fitzgerald
Cole Ully
Kole Sherwood
Tyler Soy

Exposed

Jarome Iginla
Ales Hemsky
Trevor Daley
Michal Neuvirth

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Forwards

1. Tyler Seguin
2. Patrick Kane
3. Nazim Kadri
4. Mark Stone
5. Jonathan Huberdeau
6. Logan Couture
7. Jean-Gabriel Pageau


Defensemen

1. Hampus Lindholm
2. Travis Hamonic
3. Micheal Stone

Goalie
1. Martin Jones

Exempt

Tanner Richard
Tyler Aronson
Brandon Gormley
Magnus Nygren
Morgan Ellis
Jeremie Blain
Johan Gustafsson

5 Unprotected Prospects

Ken Appleby
John Gilmour
Jalen Chatfield
Anton Karlsson
Casey DeSmith

Minimum Exposed

F. Justin Abdelkader
F. Tommy Wingels
D. Dennis Seidenberg
G. Louis Domingue

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Forwards

1. Colin Wilson
2. Evgeni Malkin
3. Ryan Getzlaf
4. Jeff Skinner
5. Brayden Schenn
6. Zemgus Girgensons
7. Antoine Vermette

Defensemen

1. Victor Hedman
2. Matt Niskanen
3. Damon Severson

Goalie

1. Jonathan Quick

Exempt

Zach Werenski, Scott Harrington, Victor Arvidsson, Conor Sheary, Travis Boyd, Brendan Gaunce, Marc McNeil, Emil Molin, Taylor Leier, Zach Mitchell, Nick Ebert, Aapeli Rasaanen, Adam Brooks, Alexandre Carrier, Brandon Halverson, Carter Hart, David Quenneville, Devon Toews, Gustav Possler, Haydn Fluery, Jonathan Ang, Julien Gauthier, Linus Lindstrom, Martin Reway, Michael Downing, Sam Steel, Victor Mete

5 Unprotected Prospects

Michael Downing, Gustav Possler, Martin Reway, Linus Lindstrom, Paul Bittner

Exposed
Joakim Nordstrom, Jim Slater, Cal Clutterbuck, Deryk Engelland, Marc Methot, Xavier Ouellet, Mike Condon, Bill Arnold, Max McCormick, Aaron Dell, Kristers Gudlevskis.
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Forwards

Sidney Crosby
Alex Ovechkin
Evgeny Kuznetsov
Markus Grandlund
Patrick Marleau
Sven Baertschi
Nick Shore

Defensemen

1. Chris Tanev
2. Alex Edler
3. John Carlson

Goalie

1. Brayden Holtby

Exempt

5 Unprotected Prospects

Hill
Stukel
Diaby
Kolesar
Capobianco
Lucia
Dzierkals
Pionk
Kujawinski
Borgen

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[Where Did Max Go?]

Selecting the 8 + 1


Skater

1. Steven Stamkos
2. Taylor Hall
3. Kyle Palmeiri
4. Valeri Nichushkin
5. Aaron Ekblad
6. Oscar Klefbom
7. Ryan Murray
8. Codi Ceci



Goalie

1. Michael Hutchinson


Exempt
John Gibson, Ryan Pulock, Magnus Hellberg, Michal Jordan, Kenney Morrison, Chandler Stephenson, Jujhar Khaira


5 Unprotected Prospects
Ryan Martindale, Maxime Lajoie, Brandon Whitney, Samuel Blais, Lukas Jasek


Exposed:
Andrew Cogliano, Matt Martin, Dustin Brown, Brett Connolly, Josh Gorges, Nick Shultz, Y. Medvedev, Eddie Lack, Andreas Martinsen, Tyler Pitlick, Marek Mazanec, Andrey Makarov.

[Dallas Stars]

Dallas Stars 8-1 Expansion Format:

Protected & Exempt

Protected Forwards:
Alexander Radulov
Teemu Pulkkinen
Beau Bennett

Protected Defensemen:
Darnell Nurse, Brett Pesce, Derrick Pouliot, Duncan Siemens

Protected Goalie:
Sergei Bobrovsky

Exempt Forwards:
Mikko Rantanen, Lawson Crouse, Miro Aaltonen, Pavel Zacha, Christian Fischer, Conor Garland, Alex Tuch

Exempt Defenseman:
Brady Skjei, Ville Pokka, Samuel Morin, Christian Djoos

Exempt Goalies:
Jon Gillies, Nick Ellis

Exposed Players Into Expansion

Exposesd Forwards:
Marian Gaborik, Reid Boucher, Tyler Kennedy, Tuomo Ruutu, 

Exposed Defenseman:
Robert Bortuzzo

Exposed Goalies:
Anders Lindback, Alex Stalock

5 Exposed Prospects:
Alexander Dergachyov, Anatoli Golyshev, Igor Rykov, Joni Tuulola, Lucas Carlsson

[Philadelphia Flyers]

Dallas Stars you need to submit another skater, you only have 7 listed.

[Tampa Bay Lightning]

May 29, 2017 23:25:13 GMT -5 Philadelphia Flyers said:

Dallas Stars you need to submit another skater, you only have 7 listed.

I believe Buffalo Sabres has said a team can protect fewer players than it is able to in order to meet the exposure criteria.

[Philadelphia Flyers]

That's dumb..... so all teams get a free pass at not being roster compliant?

[Tampa Bay Lightning]

May 30, 2017 0:50:46 GMT -5 Philadelphia Flyers said:

That's dumb..... so all teams get a free pass at not being roster compliant?

I'm not a huge fan of it either, but I'm saying it was recently posted.

I would argue that not utilizing all protection spots in an expansion draft is equivalent to mismanagement of franchise value, which could also be interpreted as 1. being overall detrimental to the franchise, which is not what the league should desire (for if a GM quits, the next guy will inherit a worse team due to blatant mismanagement) 2. deliberately making a pro roster worse, which could be viewed as tanking.

Tanking already carries itself a penalty in this league.

[Buffalo Sabres]

The penalty is not being able to protect a player. I'm more worried about enough exposed rather than protected

[Andre Deblois]

May 30, 2017 1:34:40 GMT -5 Tampa Bay Lightning said:

May 30, 2017 0:50:46 GMT -5 Philadelphia Flyers said:

That's dumb..... so all teams get a free pass at not being roster compliant?

I'm not a huge fan of it either, but I'm saying it was recently posted.

I would argue that not utilizing all protection spots in an expansion draft is equivalent to mismanagement of franchise value, which could also be interpreted as 1. being overall detrimental to the franchise, which is not what the league should desire (for if a GM quits, the next guy will inherit a worse team due to blatant mismanagement) 2. deliberately making a pro roster worse, which could be viewed as tanking.

Tanking already carries itself a penalty in this league.

The tanking penalty only applies to not dressing your best lineup, not roster construction. You cant force teams to protect more players then they wish any more then you can prevent teams from waiving waiver-eligible players. If the GM chooses not to expose as many players as they can, that is their choice and since it doesn't negatively affect the eligible pool for the expansion team we can't really penalize it. Ultimately, as long as the team meets exposure requirements, that's all that maters.

[Philadelphia Flyers]

That's a load of BS and wouldn't fly in the NHL. A lot of teams made sure to have a compliant roster leading up to the trade deadline. Now that there's teams that were too lazy and didn't make themselves compliant, they get slap on the wrist? So what was the point of even enforcing protection lists?