Usually a player that has no position on his teams top two power play units or his teams top two penalty killing units is on his teams 4th line.
To suggest such a player would be on his teams Expansion Draft Protected List would be kinda illogical, wouldn't you say?
Matthew Tkachuk
Mikael Backlund
Elias Lindholm
Dillon Dubé
Andrew Mangiapane
Sean Monahan
Johnny Gaudreau
Geoff Ward can't say enough about the swagger of Mikael Backlund and his Selke level play these past two seasons. I highly doubt he will be left up for grabs but the pro Sam Bennett crowd continue to argue otherwise.
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