Today, the NHL officially announced that Las Vegas will have the 31st franchise in the league and start playing in 2017-18. This announcement came with the rules for the 2017 expansion draft and this post looks at who the Devils can protect given their current roster.
Las Vegas was officially announced this afternoon to have the thirty-first franchise in the National Hockey League. Their name remains up in the air, but Bill Foley and his group got the league’s latest franchise and they will start playing in 2017-18. No other teams were announced along with them so until there is another expansion, the league will stay at 31 teams for the time being.