As anyone who has followed the expansion draft series knows by now, some of the rules can be very confusing. For some scenarios, the NHL never clearly laid out the specific guidelines ahead of the Vegas expansion draft.
While doing research for an upcoming article, Prashanth Iyer found information that contradicted something I believed to be true about the way unprotected free agents work.
It actually simplifies things, but it’s a little frustrating because, and you may want to sit down for this, the NHL has not clearly laid out how it works. During our Vegas Expansion Draft Series, I spent hours trying to find out exactly how unprotected free agents work.