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NHL Power Rankings after Week 9: Potential expansion picks for Seattle

This week, we learned that the NHL will officially welcome Seattle as its 32nd franchise, but not until 2021-22. That's plenty of time for teams to prepare and shape their rosters for yet another expansion draft. What if the draft were this summer, though? For this week's power rankings -- voted, as always, by ESPN's panel of experts -- we considered which player might get plucked if Seattle got to choose this June, using the same rules as Vegas in 2017.

It's all imaginary, of course. But it's also an interesting peek into current roster constructions.