The NHL released the expansion protection lists for all 30 teams earlier this morning. The Buffalo Sabres list didn’t have a lot of surprises on it. It went pretty much as we all predicted after Jeff Skinner waived his no-move clause earlier in the week.
Forwards
Protected: Jack Eichel, Sam Reinhart, Victor Olofsson, Casey Mittelstadt, Tage Thompson, Rasmus Asplund, and Anders Bjork
Kevyn Adams and his staff went with the 7-3-1 protection model, as expected. With both Eichel and Reinhart still on the roster, this is the group of seven most of us had down.