Jimmy Greenfield: With Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook basically retiring and going on the LTIR for the remainder of his contract, the Blackhawks won’t need to protect him for the Seattle Kraken expansion draft.
The Blackhawks can protect Duncan Keith, Connor Murphy and either Nikita Zadorov or Calvin de Haan.
Would guess that they would protect Zadorov and either expose de Haan and his $4.55 million cap hit or try to trade him before.