I'm really stunned at the Price move. Both Mtl and Price are playing chicken with Seattle - jingle.son is 100% convinced they'll take him. I still think they'll take Holtby or Lehner, and my other bet would be Georgiev or whoever Columbus exposes. I personally think Murray is over-rated. Ironic now that he's exposed, and Flower (likely) is protected.
Vegas is exempted from the expansion draft. They don't need to expose anyone.
From the looks of Lisa Dillman of the Athletic and various insiders regarding the Kings, this looks like this is their protected list.
Fwds - L. Andersson, Arvidsson, Brown, Iafallo, Kempe, Kopitar, Moore
Def - Doughty, Roy, Walker
Goalie - Petersen
https://twitter.com/mayorNHL/status/1416764772511490051I'm not surprised at all about the players listed except for one guy. I'm surprised if they decide to protect Brown. Mid-30s, one year left at $5.9M, best days clearly behind him (although he can still be very useful in certain situations and has played much better in the back half of his contract). He wasn't even protected in the Vegas draft (Kings went 4-4-1), but then again, his last three years prior to the Vegas draft was not very good (I'm sure some people thought at the time that contract was going to be bought out at some point in time, but the Kings will just let it ride to the end at this point).
Somehow, prior to Carey Price being exposed, apparently hockey Twitter was shocked that Quick was exposed. Yeah, apparently, the Kings should have protect their mid-30s goalie and let the mid-20s up-and-coming get exposed and Seattle picks him. Right. So whose their next starter after Quick is done with the contract in two years??? Answer that question, you morons (not you guys here, you are all awesome, just the Twitter morons).