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Originally Posted by driveway
In past expansion drafts, new teams have only been able to select one player from each NHL roster. Likely that will be the case again, so there is a chance of us losing a decent prospect, but only one.
Another thing that will be interesting is the effect of No-Movement-Clauses on the expansion draft. Whether players with NMC's in their contracts will be considered part of a team's list of protected players, or separately protected, or not protected at all unless placed on the list.
According to the archived CapGeek (god I miss that site) our list of NMC players for a likely 2016 expansion draft would be Stajan, Raymond, Wideman, and Giordano. Brodie's contract may include an NMC, but I couldn't find any information on that.
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If I recall correctly, most prospects weren't eligible to be drafted. I think it was pretty much only players who've played enough games to be waiver eligible were eligible to be drafted. So we might lose Drew Shore.
In the past teams didn't have a Salary Cap nor a Salary Floor to work with. An Expansion Draft could be interesting to see how teams would be strategically picking to get above the floor, and also staying under cap.