Better late than never.
In a rare blunder, the NHL released each team’s list of protected and unprotected players 30 minutes later than the originally planned 10:00 am ET revealing.
Although that led to some handwringing on the interwebs, it wasn’t long before NHL insiders were tripping over themselves to reveal lists ahead of the new 10:30 am deadline.
When the league officially revealed the lists, there weren’t any big surprises on the Senators’ end.
- Derick Brassard (F)
- Ryan Dzingel (F)
- Mike Hoffman (F)
- Jean-Gabriel Pageau (F)
- Zack Smith (F)
- Mark Stone (F)
- Kyle Turris (F)
- Cody Ceci (D)
- Erik Karlsson (D)
- Dion Phaneuf (D)
- Craig Anderson (G)
Available players
- Casey Bailey (F)
- Mike Blunden (F)
- Alexandre Burrows (F)
- Stephane Da Costa (F)
- Christopher DiDomenico (F)
- Nikita Filatov (F)
- Chris Kelly (F)
- Clarke MacArthur (F)
- Max McCormick (F)
- Chris Neil (F)
- Tom Pyatt (F)
- Ryan Rupert (F)
- Bobby Ryan (F)
- Viktor Stalberg (F)
- Phil Varone (F)
- Tommy Wingels (F)
- Mark Borowiecki (D)
- Fredrik Claesson (D)
- Brandon Gormley (D)
- Jyrki Jokipakka (D)
- Marc Methot (D)
- Patrick Sieloff (D)
- Chris Wideman (D)
- Mikael Wikstrand (D)
- Mike Condon (G)
- Chris Driedger (G)
- Andrew Hammond (G)
Following reports that Dion Phaneuf would not waive his no-movement clause and reports suggesting that Cody Ceci had been informed that he would be protected, that Marc Methot was available for selection did not come as a surprise.