bradleygt89 wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:28 pm
MissouriMook wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 4:49 pm
Ozzies09tc wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2019 3:55 pm
is it after this season that's about to start that seattle gets to steal players?
if so...who will be able to be stolen?
Nope. June of 2021.
Yep, more here: Seattle 2021 NHL Expansion Draft rules same as Golden Knights followed
Will select one player from each team, excluding Vegas
https://www.nhl.com/news/seattle-2021-n ... -302586918
Key takeaways:
Protect either 7 forwards, 3 defensemen, and 1 goalie, or 8 skaters + 1 goalie (Almost certain the Blues will go 7F/3D/1G)
Pending FA's drafted must be signed by Seattle within 24 hours.
Players with any movement restriction clauses must be protected (unless the player chooses to waive)
1st and 2nd year NHL players don't require protections
MUST expose 2F, 1D, 1G who qualify for several rules (played a certain # of games, not injured a certain# of games, etc.)
So. looking at the current roster and who'll be under contract for 2021-22 (From Capfriendly.com):
Tarasenko - MUST protect (NTC)
O'Reilly - under contract (Will certainly protect)
Steen - UFA (Will probably retire but MUST be protected if he doesn't or won't waive?)
Schwartz - UFA (MUST be protected if he won't waive, but we'll probably protect him anyway)
Schenn - UFA in 2020 (will probably protect if we extend him prior)
Bozak - UFA (MUST be protected if he won't waive?)
Perron - Under contract (MUST protect)
Sundqvist - Under contract (???)
Barbashev - RFA (???)
Fabbri - RFA in 2020 (???)
Thomas - RFA (Will certainly protect)
Blais - RFA in 2020 (???)
MacEachern - RFA in 2020 (???)
Kyrou - RFA (MAY be draft eligible since he played this past season. If so, he's probably protected)
Pietrangelo - UFA in 2020 (will certainly re-sign and be protected)
Parayko - Will certainly protect
Bouwmeester - UFA in 2020 (will probably retire or re-sign a 1 year deal again)
Edmundson - UFA in 2020 (Not sure what will happen here)
Gunnarsson - UFA (MUST be protected if he won't waive?)
Bortuzzo - Probably will NOT protect
Dunn - RFA in 2020 (will probably re-sign and be protected)
Pouliout - RFA in 2020 (probably won't re-sign, certainly would NOT be protected)
Binnington - UFA (will certainly be re-signed and protected)
Allen - UFA (probably will NOT be re-signed, unless a lot cheaper, but not protected)
Any rookies this season or next would NOT require protection.
I've bolded my guesses as to who we'd protect.
As for the italics, Bozak, Gunnarsson and Steen are ones I'm not sure about. They'll be pending UFAs that I'm positive they won't want to re-sign (MAYBE Bozak?), but they do have no-movement clauses. However, those clauses may be moot after the end of the season or something like that, I don't know. I'm sure we won't protect them if we don't have to. Worst case, we ask them to waive, if they get selected, Seattle has to sign them within 24 hours, or they become UFAs anyway.
Schwartz is like that, too (NMC but a pending UFA), but I suspect we'll protect him anyway. Even if we don't want to keep him on the team, he'd be worth more to trade than to lose in the draft instead of a 3rd-4th line guy.
I think they'll try to find some way to keep Sundqvist, as well, and who knows, maybe Edmundson turns things around and we'd like to keep him, too. It's possible.
A lot can change in 2 seasons, but the Blues look pretty decent heading into the expansion draft as it stands now.