thats gonna be a no from buffalo dawg

Graves is not worth protecting, Avs dont care if hes taken or not

Toews will not be exposed in any way shape or form. Seattle take take Graves, Donskoi, or Compher, but they arent getting draft picks to do it

Take Jones instead of our first round pick

Soo many things here....
Deangelo is going to be bought out by the Rangers, so nobody will take on that contract no matter what, IF anyone wants to take a flyer our on him, it's gonna be for 1 year likely around $1m..
Habs signed Allen for the ability to expose him, they'll be happy if he stays or goes, so getting Evans and picks is not in the cards...
Don't see Tampa giving up Gourde for nothing in expansion, Johnson yes will likely give Seattle a pick or two to take, but Gourde can be traded elsewhere for actual assets...
0 chance Minnesota gives Draft picks WITH Dumba so they don't pick Talbot, Dumba is way more valuable to the Wild than Talbot..
Don't see the Flames exposing Tanev, think they'd rather lose Dube or even Giordano than Tanev at this point(Gio because he's 37 and had a $6.7m cap hit and they need space more than the old man)...
And b/w LA, Wpg, TO, Bos, Clb, Dal, Van and a couple others you have here, there will be better players and needs for Sea to pick over the ones here...

Tanev is protected over Giordano

Thanks for the input. I will say, if you haven't tried to actually think through the expansion draft and the trade offers that will be made, it's pretty interesting.

Stillman likely to be protected along with Murphy and Keith in a 7-3-1