Before the Seattle Kraken gets their pick over the NHL during the expansion draft on July 21, we’ll take a look around the Minnesota Wild roster and determine how and why certain players might be heading west.
One of the most formative discussions of my young age have become those surrounding protecting expansion players. First came a period which scholars now refer to as the Vegas Rosterbation, in which every team’s fanbase and writers (and management, probably to a lesser degree) exhausted the combinations of protection lists which would best suit their teams.