We’re still a little ways out from the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft set to take place on July 21st where the league’s 32nd franchise, the Seattle Kraken, will fill out it’s inaugural roster with a player from each of the 31 other franchises.
This year’s expansion draft has already been discussed many times here at Pensburgh so you’re probably already familiar with the process and the act of ‘protecting’ players so they cannot be selected by the Kraken.
For the Pittsburgh Penguins, most of those choices should be pretty straight forward with the likes of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, Brian Dumoulin, and Jake Guentzel being obvious and/or mandatory choices to be protected from expansion.