Another month has passed since we last looked at the upcoming Seattle Expansion Draft. Scheduled for July 21, that puts it just shy of four months away – which, undoubtedly, will be here before we know it. Thus it’s time to update our LA Kings Protection List Power Rankings. In an attempt at brevity, we’ll […]
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Expansion Draft: LA Kings Protection List Outlook – February
We’re less than five months away from the Seattle Expansion Draft. In late July, the NHL’s 32nd team will be able to scoop up players and begin assembling their first roster. With that in mind, we thought it might be a good time to go back and re-visit our most recent look at what the […]
Kings Already Planning for 2021 Seattle Expansion Draft
Several factors have changed since we first previewed the upcoming NHL Expansion Draft back in early 2019. Now, as the Seattle Kraken inch closer to the summer 2021 event — where they will select their initial batch of players — we thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to take another look at things from […]
How Seattle Expansion Draft Plays into Upcoming Kings Trades
As the dust settles on the Kings big trade with the Toronto Maple Leafs, some fans have suggested they would have liked the trade better if GM Rob Blake acquired some more NHL ready / proven players. Let’s address this in two ways. First, go back to early December, when we laid out the expected […]