Quoting: DonkeyLips
Any young player the Avs get between now and then would be exempt from the expansion draft. Really they would only need to worry about the current roster. And they will only have Landeskog with a nmc unless they give one to rantannen.
It’s the D that they have to worry about, girard makar EJ are Locked up, that leaves Barrie to protect, if he’s re signed or if he’s traded they have a young forward coming back in a trade
This is not hard to understand, what ever they do with Barrie impacts which stream they go in protection. But either 4-4 or 7-3 kessel and nmc would hurt them.
So once again no on kessel, it’s bad roster management to
Trade for a guy with a nmc and will be 35 at the time of the expansion draft