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The Vancouver Canucks will lose one player to the Seattle Kraken in the 2021 Expansion Draft. Which player is most likely to go?
Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning didn’t have that many impactful players to protect at the 2017 Vegas Expansion Draft.
The Canucks were in rebuilding mode at the time, and Benning probably didn’t break a sweat when it came to deciding which 11 players to protect. The Vegas Golden Knights wound up selecting defenceman Luca Sbisa, who never developed into the suitable top-four blueliner the Canucks had hoped for.