With the NHL Board of Governors meeting taking place this week in Sea Island, Georgia, among the topics of immediate relevance to fans across the world is the subject of expansion to Seattle. Adding Seattle as the league’s 32nd team will give the NHL two symmetric conferences of 16 teams each. Speculation over personnel will run rampant over the next 18-24 months as the team hires its executives and head coaches and finalizes a team moniker and colors.
Outside of Seattle, however, teams are assuredly looking at their own rosters and formulating plans for the expansion draft, determined not to make the same mistakes that GMs made with Vegas when the Golden Knights opened play just a year ago.