Over the weekend, NHL teams were given a difficult task, deciding which players would be “protected” in this year’s expansion draft. Thanks to several media outlets and the “kind” folks over at Buffalo Rumblings, I was left wondering what players the Miami Dolphins would protect if an NFL expansion draft was imminent. First, here is a look at the NHL’s official expansion draft rules.
To make things more interesting and less like everyone else who’s doing this sort of thing, I’m going to throw the rules out the window. Instead, I’m going to decide which twelve players I would protect based on skill, age and salary.