The prospect of losing talent to Vegas is keeping a lot of NHL general managers up at night.
”Sometimes at 3 in the morning I wake up and remind myself of that: `You can only lose one player. Go back to sleep,”’ Minnesota’s Chuck Fletcher said.
All 30 existing teams must submit their protected list for the upcoming expansion draft by Saturday afternoon, which has made for a week of trade chatter and speculation as GMs jockey for position. Only seven forwards, three defenseman and a goaltender (or eight skaters of any position and a goaltender) can be protected.