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The expansion teams have been decided, right??? Or am I wrong???

Based on the Hockey News, it seems like this year’s expansion might not be like last year and they are moving away from the tradition expansion and more with a player choice model. People are already speculating that it means that the new expansion teams may get their first choice of free agents (inside and outside the league). How badly would this hurt us? Or do you believe that the majority of the players in the team want to stay? Again, players do not have to accept whatever is offered to them.

I know everyone is worried about expansion, but people need to calm down for a bit because we don’t even know how they are doing expansion this year…the first thing that jumps at me is it is not going to be the same numbers as last year because it cannot be … the numbers do not add up … second, there are certainly going to be more protections…third, the league does not want to undo and undermine last year’s expansion, it would totally defeat the purpose of last years expansion…

Now, whether the new teams are going to ask to build from the league or build mostly from the outside is still up in the air, but…until we know more, let’s not stop spiralling…

One thing is for sure, they are NOT taking the exact same expansion process with the exact same numbers and applying it to this year…it’s not going to happen….