NHL expansion is coming. We’re only three days away from the reveal of the Ottawa Senators’ (and everybody else’s) protected lists. In the meantime though, it’s fun to think about who we’d want to be protected. Since I’m far from an expert, I reached out to the Sens blogging community for their picks. Below you’ll find the aggregated results as well as some quotes from everyone involved. A big thank you to all who responded:
Colin, Peter, Trevor, Callum, Beata, and Ross (me) from Silver Seven; Pan on behalf of Sens Callups; SensNation; Chet Sellers and Luke Peristy of Welcome To Your Karlsson Years (and their eponymous podcast); Peter Levi of Eye on the Sens;
So here are the results:
Protected:
Goalie — Craig Anderson
Defencemen — Erik Karlsson, Dion Phaneuf (no-move clause), Fredrik Claesson
Forwards — Mark Stone, Mike Hoffman, Kyle Turris, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Derick Brassard, Ryan Dzingel, Zack Smith
Now obviously, we could end the article here, but that would be no fun.