Rumors no more, the selections for the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft are finally being released at the NHL Awards. Because they are releasing them in reverse order of the 2016-17 standings (and throughout the entire show), keep it right here for the updates. If you want to see who is expected to be the selection of your team, check out what leaked earlier today.
Here are the players selected by the Vegas Golden Knights by position:
Forwards:
Teemu Pulkkinen (ARZ)
William Carrier (BUF)
Cody Eakin (DAL)
Tomas Nosek (DET)
Jon Marchessault (FLA)
Connor Brickley (CAR)
Chris Thorburn (WPG)
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (PHI)
James Neal (NSH)
Brendan Leipsic (TOR)
David Perron (STL)
Oscar Lindberg (NYR)
Erik Haula (MIN) — Signs three-year deal. $2.75MM AAV.
William Karlsson (CBJ)
Defensemen:
Luca Sbisa (VAN)
Jon Merrill (NJD)
Brayden McNabb (LAK)
Jason Garrison (TBL)
Deryk Engelland (CGY) — Signs a one-year, $1MM deal. Has up to $1MM performance bonuses.
Colin Miller (BOS)
Marc Methot (OTT)
David Schlemko (SJ)
Griffin Reinhart (EDM)
Alexei Emelin (MTL)
Clayton Stoner (ANA)
Trevor van Riemsdyk (CHI)
Nate Schmidt (WSH)
Goaltenders:
Calvin Pickard (COL)
Jean-Francois Berube (NYI)
Marc-Andre Fleury (PIT)
Are you guys working on a trade tracker too? Some confusion on my end because Kathryn Tappen announced that one trade was Reilly Smith and a 2018 4th rounder to Vegas, but the on screen visual said Smith was traded FOR a 2018 4th that Vegas would send to Florida.
Never mind just refreshed the app.
Trade tracker is up. It’s Smith, a fourth and the ability to select Marchessault for nothing.
Yeah I saw thanks Gavin. Love what you guys are doing here by the way. You guys are far more active in the comment sections than writers on the other branches. Part of me wonders if you guys jumped into the comments more often to offer your take on people’s trade proposals, etc. if it would significantly increase the activity because I feel like I account for half the comments on PHR currently haha
Once all the expansion stuff dies down, we’ll be launching a new feature that involves us more with the community. I’d like for PHR to become something like a think tank for passionate fans. I’ll be relying on you and other frequent commenters to help out!
Yeah that’s pretty much what I’d like to see too, and that’s cool you guys are getting more involved. Idk how involved you guys are with the app but that could use a couple improvements too. Like why can’t I click on links in the comment section like the one you linked to me earlier from TSN? If it was done in the article it works fine but it just says link to .TSN or whatever in the comments. Also you can’t edit or upvote or down vote. Basically, the websites are better, which is worse for you guys because the websites are seperated right?
Idk why Florida didn’t protect Marchessault. Making less that a million and had 30 goals
The idea is that they wanted to get rid of Reilly’s $5MM extension, but keep your eyes peeled for any other weird moves that have to do with Florida and Vegas in the next couple days.
Didn’t they just sign Smith to that deal last year? Wow. Was there a FO change there or did they just have a change of heart?
Front office change. Tallon was pushed out, then brought back in.
But that 4th rounder just got flipped back to what you originally thought.
Yeah seemed weird that Vegas got Marchessault AND a pick just for taking on the contract.
And yeah Tappen just corrected what she said originally on air
Just like the selection from Tampa though. Vegas selected Garrison and Tampa gave them Gusev and 2 picks for taking the contract of Garrison
Kings should have traded Mcnabb while they had the chance. Everyone knew thats who Vegas was going to take
Some good Trades and Picks so far?