After submitting the official Seattle Kraken expansion draft protection list Saturday at 4:00 PM, the Nashville Predators’ selections were released publicly Sunday morning. The front office made the interesting choice to protect five defenders and three forwards as well as goalie Juuse Saros. Here are our thoughts on the choices GM David Poile made.

Protected Players

Who made the list and how we feel about it.

Filip Forsberg

Jeff: Forsberg is the easiest choice of the forward core to protect. He’s a star player with tons of raw skill and is one of the remaining pieces of the core that went to the Stanley Cup Final in 2017.