On Tuesday, the expected news was made official: Seattle will be the 32nd team in the NHL.
The expansion draft will take place in the summer of 2021, and the team will begin play in 2021-22.
We also learned that the expansion draft will be conducted under the same rules as the previous one, when the Vegas Golden Knights entered the league.
You may remember that Mike M and I wrote a series of articles in which we looked at which players we thought each team would protect. While it’s obviously too early for that, it’s not too early to see how the team is currently set up when Seattle comes calling to take a player for Detroit.