We are updating our Expansion Draft protected lists and Seattle Kraken watchlists all week. Monday we went through the Scotia North Division, and today we step through the Honda West Division.
Anaheim Ducks
Ducks Protected List
Watchlist
Max Jones was a player who had a chance to earn protection but hasn’t been productive and was recently demoted to the taxi squad. Isac Lundestrom was recalled from the taxi squad and has two goals in his first eight games this season. – Andy (original post here)
Arizona Coyotes
Coyotes Protected List
Watchlist
The battle for the seventh protected forward spot in Arizona is being won by Tyler Pitlick who has outperformed Christian Fischer to start the season. – Andy (original post here)
Colorado Avalanche
Avalanche Protected List
Watchlist
Vladislav Kamenev has been playing in the KHL, and although he is still eligible for the Expansion Draft, we are dropping him off the watchlist. There could be an argument to bump Tyson Jost off the protected list to make space for Joonas Donskoi, but Jost is younger and has more potential in front of him. – John (original post here)
Los Angeles Kings
Kings Protected List
Watchlist
It is still VERY hard to predict which direction the Kings will go with several of their protection questions. We now think they will change from eight total skaters to a 7-3-1 protection scheme. Carl Grundstrom has shown some high-level skill this season, which moves him onto our protected list. Dustin Brown has 12 points in 13 games, so he can apparently still play and should be watched. Former Seattle Thunderbird Austin Strand is suddenly playing a role, though this would be more of a bet for the future. – Darren (original post here)
Minnesota Wild
Wild Protected List
Watchlist
Something still has to give here. When we wrote the Wild profile, we assumed Matt Dumba would be traded for a center. That hasn’t happened, and such a deal is appearing less likely as the season goes on. We’re now predicting that general manager Bill Guerin gets one of or both of his veteran forwards with no-movement clauses (Zach Parise and/or Mats Zuccarello) to waive their NMC’s so the Wild don’t have to protect them. This would let Minnesota go the route of protecting eight total skaters, and if that happens, they could keep Dumba while still protecting Jordan Greenway and Joel Eriksson Ek. – Darren (original post here)
San Jose Sharks
Sharks Protected List
Watchlist
Maxim Letunov has yet to get in a game this year, while Dylan Gambrell has been getting more responsibilities with the Sharks and Alexander True has four points in his first four games for the San Jose Barracuda, the Sharks AHL affiliate. We will keep Letunov on the list but feel that Gambrell and True are distancing themselves as better candidates. – John (original post here)
St Louis Blues
Blues Protected List
Watchlist
We are removing Jake Walman from the Kraken watchlist. He has only been in three NHL games this season and seems destined to spend a lot of time on the taxi squad this year. Meanwhile, Justin Faulk is putting together a pretty good season so far with five goals in the first 16 games. – John (original post here)
I think that Anaheim will let Getzlaf go to free agency and re-sign him after the draft, and use the extra slot to protect Heinen.
Getzlaf probably gets left exposed. You don’t use that slot on a 36 year old who Seattle won’t draft anyway
Full of mistakes.
Anaheim : Jacob Larsson will be protected. Probably not Shattenkirk.
Coyotes : Capobianco needs 25 more matches played this season to be exposed
Sharks : Dahlen needs 27 more matches played this season to be exposed
Blues : Tarasenko needs 27 more matches played this season to be exposed (which he will not)
You don’t understand the rule. Teams must expose legitimate NHL players, it has nothing to do with eligibility, it is a player exposure requirement. Here is the rule:
All NHL teams must meet the following minimum requirements regarding players exposed for selection in the draft:
1. One defenseman who is a) under contract in 2021-22 and b) played in at least 40 NHL games the prior season or played in at least 70 NHL games in the prior two seasons.
2. Two forwards who are a) under contract in 2021-22 and b) played at least 40 NHL games the prior season or played in at least 70 NHL games in the prior two seasons.
3. One goalie who is under contract in 2021-22 or will be a restricted free agent at the end of his current contract immediately prior to 2021-22. If a team elects to make a restricted free agent goalie available to meet this requirement, that goalie must have received his qualifying offer prior to the submission of the team’s protected list.
Yes I get it, You don’t need to protect Tarasenko, for example, because he didn’t play the minimal number of match (10 last year and none this year)
If Dahlen doesn’t play 27 match this year in the nhl, he cannot be exposed thus no need to be protected,
Taresenko will absolutely be Expansion Draft eligible. The eligibility requirement is greater than 2 years playing pro hockey in North America….last I checked, he has played more than 2 years of pro hockey in North America.
Dahlen is an interesting one. Most people have him as expansion eligible. The only thing I can think of is that he is “on loan” to his Swedish team and the NHL probably doesn’t want the teams to stash players in Europe to avoid expansion eligibility. I use CapFriendly as my source of truth on eligibility.
If you want to look at something really funky, as yourself why Eeli Tolvanen is exempt while Cale Makar is not.
There is something funky…. let me copy-paste your text here :
2. Two forwards who are a) under contract in 2021-22 and b) played at least 40 NHL games the prior season or played in at least 70 NHL games in the prior two seasons.
So you have written yourself that it is for the 2 prior seasons. must have played 70 nhl games.
no. that’s the requirement from the teams not the player eligibility rule.
This is the player exemption rule:
– All first- and second-year professionals, as well as all unsigned draft choices, will be exempt from selection (and will not be counted toward their club’s applicable protection limits).
Try looking at all the AHL players that were exposed in the Vegas expansion draft that have played less than 40 NHL games.