The National Hockey League is preparing to introduce the Seattle Kraken with its upcoming expansion draft, which is just around the corner. Other teams across the NHL are readying for it by protecting 11 players each from selection.
While the NFL has taken a different approach to adding new franchises, what if they didn’t? Right now the NHL is allowing teams to protect almost half their rosters (47.8%, to be exact) which would come up to 25 of the 53 players on NFL rosters. But let’s not get too deep into the weeds on this.
Choosing which New Orleans Saints players to protect from poaching made for a fun hypothetical ahead of training camp.