The countdown is officially on: the Seattle Kraken, the NHL’s 32nd team, will officially select their expansion draft players in a mere two days’ time.
For some teams, the expansion draft likely won’t make much of an impact on their roster overall. But for others, the number of high-profile stars they have — and the limitations set by the league in terms of who they could and couldn’t place on their protected lists — left them making some pretty tough choices when all of the lists were revealed on Sunday morning.
The Colorado Avalanche certainly had a surprising set of players that they left exposed.