One problem I see with all this is that a team with 4 defenseman that they want to protect will still opt for the 3-7 split and just list the 4th defenseman as a forward......then claim "says who?" when the league says he's a defenseman. This might sound farfetched at first, but really, it's not like a position is part of somebody's birthright and who really is to say. Plenty of players have switched positions in their career, even within a game. Anybody who's been around long enough to remember previous expansion drafts knows that teams have tried to get away with far worse (the Bernie Wolfe fiasco ring a bell?).
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