Welcome back to our Seattle Expansion Draft Series. If you haven’t read the first article that lays out the rules of the expansion draft, that would be a good starting point, as I’ll only give the very basic rules in each of these follow up articles. Previous articles focusing on Detroit in this series were the second article, the seventh article, and the twentieth article.
Today, the expansion draft protection lists were revealed. Here are the players Detroit protected.
Thomas Greiss
Filip Hronek
Nick Leddy
Gustav Lindstrom
Dylan Larkin
Tyler Bertuzzi
Jakub Vrana
Robby Fabbri
Michael Rasmussen
Adam Erne
Givani Smith
(Players in italics are different from my final projections)
First of all, before I forget.