The NHL's expansion draft is fast approaching, and at least 30 players will be headed to the Vegas Golden Knights when the upstart franchise wraps up its selections from June 18-20.
One of the NHL's other 30 teams decided to get a head start on player swapping Thursday, however, as the Tampa Bay Lightning dealt left winger Jonathan Drouin and a conditional sixth-round draft pick to the Montreal Canadiens for defenseman Mikhail Sergachev and a conditional second-rounder.
The move marks an abrupt end to Drouin's polarizing Tampa Bay career.