Unfortunately this won’t happen because Parise has a NMC.

Eddy will definitely be protected for StL

The Kings will likely lose a goaltender. Cal Petersen is one of the best young goaltending prospects in anyone's pipeline and is a season or two away from being NHL ready. He's slated to be the successor to Jonathan Quick. It's very possible that they protect him over Quick since Quick will be turning 35 the season that Seattle is expected to join the league. If they protect Quick, then Seattle could take Petersen and he could very well turn into Seattle's franchise goaltender for a decade.

The Kings might be one of those teams that has to make a deal with Seattle to prevent them from poaching their unprotectable players.

I appreciate all the work you must have put into this to figure out who would be eligible and who wouldn’t. But I want to bring up the fact that everyone thought Evander Kane would be the centerpiece of a terrible Vegas expansion team 24 months ago. Not trying to rag on what you did, just simply reminding everyone of the fact that we have no idea what’s going to happen and what is happening right now behind the scenes.

Did you read my description? Of course there gonna be veterans with NTC/NMC that are gonna waive to go there. Parise's already a burden for the team and it's only gonna get worst 2 years from now. There's a strong chance he accept to help out the Wild in that regard and he sees the situation as a challenge to kickstart his last few years on the NHL

You're absolument right. There's so many things that'll happen in the next 24 months that it extremely hard to predict. I just wanted have some fun with it. Still, it's a likely scenario

It 7F 3D 1G or 8 skaters. They'll likely protect Parayko Pietrangelo and Dunn first. If they protect Edmunson too, they can only protect Tarasenko, Schenn, O'Reilly and Schwartz, leaving a lot of good young players unprotected like Fabbry, Thomas, Foley, Jaskin, Barbashev, Allen (mot so young but still), Blais etc.

I really look the time to think about each and every team..please do the same before judging my work.

It's a possibility. I thought about it while doing this for the Kings. I think Jarry is a lock to be selected by SEA. There's other teams too that will have hard decisions to make. I do think the kings protect their young goalie and leave Quick unprotected. At 35 and being injury prone, I don't think SEA takes him...at least that was my reasoning.

I think i protected Doughty Phaneuf (won't waive) Martinez Kopitar Carter Toffoli Kovalchuk (won't waive) Pearson Kempe Amadio Peterson

Parise is probably the worst player for an expansion team to take from MN. He'll be 35 or 36 and still under a huge contract for 5 more years and has a buyout proof contract heavily front loaded. MN can't take the risk of the recapture penalty Parise's contract carries with it either.

My, way too early, best guess is Foligno or Seeler gets chosen from MN by the next expansion team. Too many contracts for the Wild are ending in the expansion draft year to hurt the team like the Vegas draft did. If the GM is any good he'll have handshake contract deals in place with the pending UFAs to be signed after the expansion draft.

Protection list:
JEE, Kunin, Nino, Zucker, Parise, FWD, FWD
Brodin, Dumba, Suter
Dub

Ok well if the draft happens in summer of 2020 then the Blues will only have Vlad, Schwartz, ROR and maybe Perron or Bozak from the forward group to protect. Schenn will be a UFA, but for the sake of argument I’ll say we extend him. You protect Vlad, Schenn, Schwartz, ROR, Eddy, Dunn, Parayko, and Petro. Thomas, Kyrou, Husso, etc will be exempt because they will not have more than two years service time. Like I said Army isn’t going to expose his top pairing LHD

I disagree. Jarry isn’t a lock to be selected by Seattle for several reasons.
1. Jarry is projected to be better than Murray and Murray will be due a huge raise while Jarry will probably be on a bridge contract (like the Fleury/Murray situation). If Jarry is anything close to Murray, they will opt to protect Jarry for cap space reasons.
2. With the possibility of several other quality goalies being available and the fact that the pens won’t be able to protect all their solid young skaters, it might be beneficial for Seattle to take a skater from Pittsburgh as opposed to a goalie. If no one gets traded by then, the pens will probably take the 7F, 3D, 1G route since Schultz will be coming off the last year of his contract.
Crosby, Malkin, Kessel, Hornqvist, Guentzel, Rust, Sprong, Letang, Dumoulin, Maatta, and Jarry (if he is anywhere close to Murray in regards to play). That will leave Schultz unprotected and to get a solid top 4 RHD (which many won’t be available as we saw with Vegas only being able to grab 2 RHD out of 11 and neither were really top 4). They’d have the cap to sign him and he’d probably be a reasonable sign for them.
3. Depending on how some of the up and coming prospects turn out, like ZAR, Blueger, Bengsston, Tiffels, etc, could make Hornqvist, Rust, and/or Sprong unprotected. Making them solid options too

I think the Blues will either lose Fabbri or Perron because they'll protect Parayko, Pietrangelo, Edmunson, Dunn, Schenn, Schwartz, O'Reilly, Tarasenko.

If Phaneuf won't waive his NMC for the expansion draft, the Kings will buy him out of his final year. The cap hit would be rough with recapture penalties, but they'll have some young inexpesnive defenseman on the roster at that time (Clague/LaDue), so they'll be able to afford it (plus Ottawa has to eat 25% of the buyout cost). I agree Kovalchuk won't waive, and unless he turns out to be a bust, they'll end up protecting him.

Vilardi is going to need a protection slot. He's going to be on the roster this year, meaning he'll have 2 full years pro in 2020 when the expansion draft takes place. Not sure they'll protect Carter, as he'll turn 36 that season and only under contract for 2 more years.

Amadio doesn't really warrant protection. He's a decent player, but I think the Kings would gladly give him up if it meant Seattle would pass on LaDue, Carter, Brown, and Quick.

It will likely be closer to this:

F: Kopitar, Kovalchuk, Toffoli, Pearson, Vilardi, Kempe, Iafallo
D: Doughty, Muzzin/Martinez (one will be traded before then), Forbort
G: Petersen

My guess is it will be one of the four guys I mentioned above that will get taken.