DON’T EXPECT ANOTHER VEGAS
Whether it’s in 2019 or 2020, Seattle is going to get an NHL team.
And when it does, deputy commissioner Bill Daly confirmed that the expansion draft would be identical to what Vegas had last year — with one exception of course. The other 31 teams will now have time to prepare for which players they can and cannot protect.
“Keep in mind that teams are now planning when they’re signing players,” said Devils GM Ray Shero. “They know what the rules are. With Vegas, we had no idea what the rules were. There were no rules. Teams got caught, but it’s not as if they did it on purpose. There were no rules. So you didn’t do any planning.
“It will be harder for the next expansion team, because we know the rules and in two or three years — or whenever it is — you can plan that way.”