The Avalanche submitted its expansion-draft protected list Saturday and it was released to the public Sunday morning. The Seattle Kraken, the NHL’s 32nd team, will choose one unprotected Avalanche player in Wednesday’s expansion draft.
Protected Avalanche forwards (7):
Mikko Rantanen ($9.25 million cap hit through 2024-25)
Nathan MacKinnon ($6.3 million through 2022-23)
Andre Burakovsky ($4.9 million through 2021-22)
Nazem Kadri ($4.5 million through 2021-22)
Valeri Nichushkin ($2.5 million through 2021-22)
Logan O’Connor ($725,000 through 2021-22)
Tyson Jost (restricted free agent)
Notable unprotected forwards: Gabe Landeskog (unrestricted free agent), Brandon Saad (unrestricted free agent), Joonas Donskoi ($3.