If the NHL is going to expand for 2017-18, we’ll know by the draft in June.
In case one or two expansion teams are approved — and none remains a possibility the way some folks are talking — the league decided this week’s general managers’ meetings in Florida were a good place to start a conversation about some of the preparations that go with expansion, namely an expansion draft.
The parameters of such an exercise have been contemplated and now floated to the GMs but word this week is some of these ideas are less than carved in stone.