San Jose Sharks
CONFIRMED: Sharks’ Protected List
The NHL will make expansion draft protected lists public today.
San Jose Hockey Now can confirm the San Jose Sharks’ protected list early — and it’s just what we reported yesterday.
The San Jose Sharks will protect Logan Couture, Evander Kane, Tomas Hertl, Kevin Labanc, Timo Meier, Rudolfs Balcers, and Jonathan Dahlen up front.
On the back-end, they will protect Erik Karlsson, Brent Burns, and Marc-Edouard Vlasic. Newly-acquired Adin Hill will also be protected.
That means the Seattle Kraken can choose from forwards Dylan Gambrell, Matt Nieto, Jayden Halbgewachs, Ryan Donato, Alex True, Marcus Sorensen, Maxim Letunov, Patrick Marleau, or Kurtis Gabriel. They can also select defensemen Radim Simek, Christian Jaros, Jake Middleton, Nicholas Meloche, or Greg Pateryn, or goalie Martin Jones.
The San Jose Sharks will lose one of these players to the Kraken. Who will it be? We’ll find out at Wednesday’s expansion draft.
There will be plenty of intrigue then. While San Jose may not have exposed the most exciting of players, there should be no shortage of stars available to Seattle. Carey Price, Gabriel Landeskog, Vladimir Tarasenko, and Max Domi are among the marquee names that the Kraken may be able to choose from.
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I think they’ll take Meloche. Young defenseman with some promise would do them good.
I don’t think Meloche is considering a higher-end prospect. Doubt they take him
Gambrell, Donato, Simek, Nieto, Meloche, Middleton is what i think Seattle order of preference is, guess we shall see on Wednesday
Looking like Gambrell. Seems like they probably dont want the term on Simek and Nieto is coming off injury.
I would think Nieto is expected to make a full recovery? Not sure why that would be an issue for Seattle?
Should have exposed Kane, Burns,Vlasic and Karlsson and maybe make a side deal to help eat some of Wilson’s garbage contracts.
i just finished my expansion draft selections/team for SEA. whoa, they’re getting a good team! Forwards: Jakub Voracek (winger) Max Domi (center) Josh Bailey (winger) Joonas Donskoi (winger) Jared McCann (center/winger) Alexander Volkov (winger) Mason Appleton (center/winger) Carl Gundstrom (winger) Rem Pitlick (center) Dominik Kahun (center/winger) Nick Ritchie (winger) Vitaly Abramov (winger) Ryan Donato (center/winger) Adam Mascherin (center/winger) Kole Lind (winger) Nick Merkley (center/winger) Michael Bunting (winger) Defense: Anthony DeAngelo (right defense) Calvin De Haan (left/right defense) Marcus Petterson (left defense) Cale Fleury (right defense) Jake Bean (left defense) Dennis Cholowski (left defense) Cal Foote (right defense) Jake McCabe (left… Read more »