Pierre LeBrun: It won't affect the top 4-5 elite teams who have their eye on the prize and nothing else -- those teams can wait to deal with their expansion-draft decisions after the season. But for almost every other team, no question they will be effected. Take the Columbus Blue Jackets. Let's just pretend they trade for Matt Duchene (again, this is purely to make a point, folks) in exchange for prospect X, player X and draft pick X. Then, obviously, they would want to protect Duchene as one of their seven forwards for the expansion draft.
Morning roundtable: Vegas Golden Knights will change the way teams attack the trade deadline
