Down Goes Brown · Jul 19, 2021
What if the Senators and Lightning had the same expansion draft rules as Seattle and Vegas?
The Ottawa Senators’ missteps at the 1992 expansion draft are well documented in hockey lore.
In their first big moment on the NHL stage, the expansion club made multiple selections that were deemed ineligible.
With the 33rd selection, they tried to draft forward Todd Ewen from the Montreal Canadiens. The Senators, however, didn’t realize that Montreal had already lost the maximum of two players, making Ewen ineligible for selection.
Seven picks later, the Senators made the same mistake again by trying to take Todd Hawkins from the Maple Leafs after Toronto had already lost two players in the draft.