The Vegas Golden Knights are the newest expansion franchise to join the National Hockey League (NHL). If anyone even ten years ago had predicted which sport Las Vegas would get its first professional team, ice hockey probably wouldn’t have been the top choice, but whatever.
Anyway, Wednesday is the expansion draft, and if you’re unfamiliar with the player protection rules of that league, here they are:
The list of players protected by the 30 NHL teams in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft was unveiled on Sunday. Each team had the option to protect seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie, or eight skaters and one goalie.