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Originally Posted by jayswin
Correct me if I'm wrong but Anaheim would want to move a defenseman before the expansion draft, so if they traded for Sam Bennett then we'd be screwed because we'd now have to protect four D-men and less forwards?
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You are correct. We have our 3 D protection slots taken already with Gio, Hamilton and Brodie.
And if we went 8 skaters 1 goalie we'd only be able to protect 4 forwards:
Gaudreau, Monahan, Backlund, Frolik which would leave Lazar and Ferland exposed so we'd essentially be trading Bennett + Lazar/Ferland for Vatanen (assuming he's the Dman)