Rise and shine, hockey fans; today, the Seattle Kraken will receive the Penguins’ list of protected players— and, more importantly, the catalog of who will be exposed as a potential expansion draft pick.
We’ll greet the morning by taking a look at the Penguins’ cap breakdown, and how each potential expansion draft pick will affect the amount of cap space the team will be working with this summer.
Breaking down the cap
To imagine what the roster will look like after the expansion draft, we’ll have to make some assumptions; and say what you like about Saturday’s Jared McCann trade, but at least it makes it slightly easier to predict who the Penguins are going to have listed on their protection list this Sunday.