#and Jay dies like Peter Griffin

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Episode 3 Review

Chicago Med: Be the Change You Want to See

Will literally looks amazing this season! The hair, the personality, the plotline, the fact that he's using his one braincell....he's got it all.

Okay, Dylan being with Kevin in the opening scene was something I didn't know I needed until now. Plus, they both looked fine as hell.

The fact that the one woman lied about her Lupis for 5 years literally disgusts me. She shouldn't have taken advantage of other people like that and asked for donations and whatever else. That's just terrible.

Will wanting to dig deeper into her case to see if the money is actually going into charities and what not but Dylan trying to keep him grounded makes me desperately want them to become good friends.

That man 100% made a go at Stevie and the fact that he claims he didn't is not right. I'm really glad she stood up for herself and went to talk to Goodwin.

Crockett and Vanessa are showing that they are a good partnership going so far.

Dr. Cooper believed that Will was actually broke! But when that rep for the heart monitor thing did not know what she was talking about when telling Will about the device, that's when I knew this whole situation was absolutely shady.

And Stevie deciding to give her mother the money for her van warmed my heart. Even though she preferred her mom spend it on housing, she knew her mom needed it so she gave her the $1200 anyways.

The promo for next week....why do the writers have to ruin the whole Vanessa/Crockett friendship? Stop trying to add stupid drama plotlines to the show!

Chicago Fire: Counting Your Breaths

Boden at another house just doesn't feel right. Firehouse 51 is where he belongs, end of story.

Casey pushing Herrmann to the floor so that Stella could win the competition was everything! He really does support Truck 81 with all of his heart.

This whole thing with Cruz.....just give the man a break. I'm glad that Kelly made him take a few days off. He needs it.

51 telling Griffin stories of Darden was so sweet. It made me think about the first season of Fire and how all of them were literal babies compared to now.

Okay, Kelly really needs to stop trying to snatch the young members of 81 and have them go for Squad. The same thing happened way back when with Peter Mills, and it pissed me off.

Hawkins really is a jerk. Sylvie's idea and proposal are brilliant, and the fact that he doesn't want to take it on because he just got his position is terrible.

Herrmann supporting Gallo, Ritter, and Violet with their micro-brewery made me so happy! I love the scenes with the four of them together.

Not Casey bringing up how Darden died. I'll admit, my eyes teared up a little bit.

Ritter and Violet in suits.......please bring those outfits back for a future episode.

The scene in the apartment with Matt, Sylvie, Stella, Kelly, and Griffin was so fun to watch. I love seeing them all have fun and hang out with each other.

When Gallo told Casey he wasn't gonna take Kelly's offer to start training for Squad, I was so happy! I think Gallo belongs on 81 where he can learn under Casey.

The Squad guys helping Cruz get over his trauma warmed my heart.

Next week's episode looks so wholesome and I just can't wait to see what happens.

Chicago PD: The One Next to Me

Hailey and Jay moving in together! I'm literally screaming.

The whole thing opening scene was amazing. First off, Adam with the pickle jar was hilarious. Then his whole discussion on doing it vs. doing it made me smile. I'm so glad the scene where everyone admits they know Jay and Hailey are together was lighthearted cause honestly, they all needed that after everything that's been going on.

That poor girl getting hurt during the robbery broke my heart.

Jay realizing that he knows who made the bomb made me excited to get more into his backstory.

Hailey bringing up the name Ricky and Jay snapping at her got me thinking that something big had happened with Jay back in the army that he doesn't like talking about.

The army pictures! They had ample opportunities to bring up Mouse, and the fact that they didn't makes me a little upset.

One of the robbers getting hit by a truck made me flash back to Grey's Anatomy when it happened with George.

That guy not believing for a second that Jay could make the shot, and when he did, Jay's cocky attitude was everything!

All right, I'm just gonna say it. Knox is literally a psychopath.

The scene where Hailey finds Knox in the storage yard and he pulls his gun on her, but Jay comes and saves her proves that they really do have the best partnership on the team.

Um, Jay and Hailey's new apartment looks amazing!

I had a whole theory that Ricky could've stood for Patrick, which was Jay's dad's name, and maybe it was his middle name, and that's was why it was his nickname. But the whole story into it meaning Ricochet was a nice backstory.

Finding out that Jay basically covered up mass murder was something I was not expecting, and I hope the writers choose to bring this up in a future episode because it's a deep storyline.

Let me just say this; the whole team looks fine this whole episode. Every single one of them. Kevin with the shoulder holster, Jay's tight shirts, the baseball cap, and him using the sniper, Adam's flannel, Hailey wearing camo, Kim with her sunglasses, Voight just being Voight...

I have a feeling that next week's episode is gonna be one of the best of the season. When I saw it, I literally started freaking out. Character centric episodes are some of my favorite when they're done correctly, and next week being about Hailey having a break down makes me believe that it'll be a good one.

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Movies of 2020 - My Pre-Summer Favourites (Part 1)

The Runners-Up:

20.  DISAPPEARANCE AT CLIFTON HILL – first up is this sneaky little psychological mystery thriller from writer-director Albert Shin (In Her Place), a semi-autobiographical piece inspired by his own childhood experiences at his family’s motel at Niagara Falls.  Sense8 star Tuppence Middleton delivers magnificently as a troubled young woman whose long-buried memories of witnessing a child-abduction in the area are stirred up following her mother’s death, while Shin weaves a palpable atmosphere of dread and doubt as the twisted narrative confounds our expectations.

19.  BEASTIE BOYS STORY – Spike Jonze, undeniably one of Hollywood’s most outside-the-box directors, is the perfect choice to tell the story of one of music’s most live-wire bands (he did, after all, helm their greatest music video, the incendiary Sabotage).  Unfortunately, MCA died in 2012, but Mike D and Ad-Rock are on-hand to remember their best friend during this endlessly fascinating live-recorded stage-show in which they recount their tale with the aid of Jonze’s quirkily edited montage of archive footage and crappy animations.

18.  THE RHYTHM SECTION – Blake Lively follows in the footsteps of Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman to reinvent herself as a kickass action heroine in this dark and edgy revenge thriller from rising star female director Reed Morano (Meadowland, TV’s The Handmaid’s Tale), but she does things a little differently, portraying an instantly relatable, refreshingly vulnerable amateur warrior who enlists the help of Jude Law’s disgraced MI6 spook to train her to kill after her whole family die in a terrorist attack.

17.  BOMBSHELL – the #MeToo movement gets its strongest cinematic ammunition to date with this challenging true-life drama chronicling the very public fall of media mogul Roger Ailes (portrayed with loathsome brilliance by John Lithgow) and the beleaguered women from Fox News who brought him down (represented here by the spectacular triumvirate of Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie).  It’s hard to watch at times, but that’s the point, and the choice of comedy director Jay Roach (best known for Austin Powers) is not so surprising after thought-provoking films like Trumbo.

16.  JOJO RABBIT – the year certainly got off to suitably eclectic start with this leftfield black comedy from Taika Waititi, following the misadventures of Hitler Youth cadet Jojo Betzler (an incredible debut from Roman Griffin Davis) and his imaginary friend Adolf (Waititi in his wackiest screen role to date) as they negotiate the final days of the Third Reich.  In less assured hands this film could have been an offensive mess, but ultimately proved to be one of the year’s most rewardingly entertaining and surprisingly powerful films.

15.  THE LAST FULL MEASURE – writer-director Todd Robinson delivers a powerful slice of true-life drama with this account of the 32-year struggle to secure a posthumous award of the Medal of Honour for the Vietnam War sacrifice of US Air Force pararescueman William Pitsenbarger.  Sebastian Stan stars as the Pentagon staffer embarking on a frustrating battle against decades of red tape, and there’s first-rate support from William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson and Peter Fonda as the traumatised veterans determined to see their fallen comrade finally get the recognition he deserves.

14.  BLOODSHOT – right now, the 2020 award for my biggest guilty pleasure goes to this gloriously OTT ultra-violent superhero flick, intended to be the opening entry in a big-screen shared-universe based on the Valiant Comics properties.  Vin Diesel is no-brainer casting as brutally murdered US marine Ray Garrison, brought back to life using nanotechnology which grants him superhuman strength and massive regenerative abilities that render him virtually indestructible.  This is big, loud, dumb cinema at its most fun, and I’m DEFINITELY up for more.

13.  THE LIGHTHOUSE – rightly winning awards from all quarters and garnering massive praise and recognition, writer-director Robert Eggers’ second feature EASILY eclipses the low key brilliance of his debut horror flick The Witch, thoroughly outdoing it in terms of sheer nerve-shredding anxiety and mind-scrambling WEIRDNESS.  Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson both deliver career-best performances as the 19th Century wickies suffering increasingly crippling cabin fever in their remote New England lighthouse.

12.  A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD – like many kids of the 1980s, I have strong formative memories of Fred Rogers (I may be Brit, but my dad was in the RAF, so we spent three very key years of my childhood living in St Louis, Missouri), so I was FASCINATED by the prospect of a biopic, especially if the great man was going to be played by one of my very favourite actors, Tom Hanks.  He thoroughly deserved his latest Oscar nomination for effortlessly bringing Mister Rogers to vivid life under the expert guidance of writer-director Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) in this spellbinding emotional extravaganza.

11.  DANIEL ISN’T REAL – undoubtedly destined to become a future cult classic, this quietly unnerving and insidiously disturbing psychological horror from indie writer-director Adam Egypt Mortimer (Some Kind of Hate) is certainly one of my top under-the-radar hits for the year so far.  Patrick (son of Arnie) Schwarzenegger oozes toxic masculinity as Daniel, the decidedly malevolent imaginary friend who’s suddenly resurfaced in the life of emotionally fragile New York student Luke (Blockers and Halloween’s Miles Robbins), knocking his life into a nightmarish spiral of Lovecraftian existential terror.

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Mind sharing some of your favorite m/m romance novels pal?

*CRACKS MY QUEER TRANS KNUCKLES*

ALRIGHT STRAP IN, FOLKS.

My BIG THREE authors where basically everything they write is literal chef kiss are:

1. K.J. Motherfucking Charles

2. Jordan L. Motherfucking Hawk @jordanlhawk

3. Cat Motherfucking Sebastian

The tl;dr: Think of England or Band Sinister (or any of her series it’s all fucking great) by KJ Charles, the Whyborne & Griffin series by Jordan L. Hawk, and the Captive Prince series by C.S. Pacat even though I technically don’t consider that one a true romance, just a series with romance elements. For trans specific, Peter Darling by Austin Chant. The sex isn’t really explicit in that one, so if you, like me, want to see your trans body being loved and appreciated in a sexy sexy way, The Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau.

There are more than what I’ve listed here, but those authors are my mains. If you want me to go in-depth about any of their books, just lemme know and I’ll be happy to do so.

MORE BENEATH THE CUT!

K.J. specializes in queer historicals, with some of those also being fantasy. With KJ, you will get SMOKING HOT SMUT AND ROMANCE as well as PLOT. She’s also very good at racial diversity and defends to the death people of color in historicals without making it tragic. In fact, I would say that the romance isn’t ever the main plot! It’s more character development. Also most of the time someone dies, but you are guaranteed a Happily Ever After. Most of her stuff is series, but she has some standalones if you wanna dip in your toe.

The standalones of KJ that I would recommend are:

1. Think of England. It’s Edwardian. There’s a disabled character. There’s a Jewish character (I think he’s Portuguese? Maybe Spanish. It’s been a while). There’s some good Voyeurism/”We Know We’re Being Watched” sex. Big Strongk Viking Manly Man who is very soft and sensitive as well.

2. Band Sinister. Regency. VIRGIN CLASSICIST. RAKE. HELLFIRE CLUB. SEDUCTION VIA CATULLUS. NEED I FUCKING SAY MORE. “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. Be merry with me?” BOY.

In her fantasy Charm of Magpies series, Jackdaw is my favorite. The main character Jonah even goes by Jay in bed and I’m. Cry. It’s so beautiful it made me believe in love again. If you’re into Holmes/Watson dynamics, Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal is VERY HOT and good and has another book in the same universe where it’s like, Green Man themed.

Her Society of Gentlemen series was the first I read. DANDIES. DANDIES. DANDIES. GOOD GOOD POLITICS. ACTUAL HISTORICAL EVENTS. WILLIAM BLAKE AS PILLOWTALK. BOY.

Sins of the Cities is Victorian Sensationalist Homage! There’s a nonbinary character!

You can’t go wrong with KJ. Sometimes her shorter stories feel rushed, but they still are In Love Every Time. Seriously. Even if you like rougher stuff, even BDSM, they are STILL IN LOVE WHILE IT’S HAPPENING. SO ROMANCE. SO GOOD.

Jordan L. Hawk is a nonbinary author! Their main series is Whyborne & Griffin which is TEN EVENTUALLY ELEVEN BOOKS LONG. It’s a fantasy historical set in America during the Victorian era, whatever it was called in America. Very Lovecraftian. Good good wizard boy and his dandy PI husband (YES HUSBAND THEY GET MARRIED BITCHES). The sex scenes in the first book are SO FUCKING ROMANCE BOY I DIE. As the series progress, they are Together so we get less scenes and more Plot. I mean, like KJ, the whole thing is Plot and romance is part of Plot, but yeah. They get dark too. Also there’s Dr. Christine Putnam who is the greatest character ever written. And a fish lesbian.

They don’t really have standalones? But if W&G is too big of an undertaking to begin, try Spirits or Hexworld. Spirits is mediums and all that jazz. Hexworld is witch/familiar dynamic that’s basically soulmate trope and also super interesting political climate. I didn’t think I’d be into the familiars being shapeshifters but it was good!

Cat Sebastian is my least favorite of the three because she has no External Plot Only Romance. But the Romance is always good! She only has series, but they don’t necessarily need to be read in order. Ruin of a Rake has an opera box handjob that is SWOON and It Takes Two to Tumble is basically Gay Sound of Music and has A SCENE WHERE A MAN OF THE CLOTH MASTURBATES AS ONE OF THE SEX SCENES. IT’S. HOT.

IF YOU WANT SOME TRANS ROMANCE UP IN HERE.

FUCKING. READ PETER DARLING BY AUSTIN CHANT. TRANSGUY PETER PAN. WITH CAPTAIN HOOK. IT’S SO FUCKING GOOD. YOU WILL CRY.

I read Coffee Boy by him and the sex was good but meh.

The Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau is THE good contemporary on this list because I can’t fucking STAND when authors use twink unironically and the rest of this book is so good I can ignore that it does that too. The trans sex is so good, I almost cried thinking that someone could view my body that way and them be excited by it. Seriously. The cis guy in it is like “oh huh I never liked deep throating or swallowing semen so blowing a trans guy dick is like, fucking perfect? Also two holes I am the luckiest fucking man alive??????? ALSO HE CAN PICK HOW BIG HIS DICK IS???????????????????” And she pulls all that off without it being like, fetishizing and gross! The dude is just like, oh hey, this is awesome!

There’s also EE Ottoman! I’ve only read Doctor’s Discretion by him, and the sex was SUUUUUUUUUUUPER good.

HONORABLE MENTION.

So, I don’t actually consider the Captive Prince series to be True Romance. Yes, there are Romance Elements, as it basically reads like a tropey fanfic. But it’s more like, a fantasy historical political thriller? It’s like, if Risk was gay and sexy.

I read romance novels all last year, and Captive Prince was the first one that made me realize that I have dated multiple people, and just had multiple people in my life in general, give me the impression that I am hard to love, that I have a difficult personality, that I’m Too Much somehow. And like, seeing how Damen, this beautiful, kind, lawful to a fault, beefcake of a man loves Laurent just the way he is and is like SO FUCKING INTO HIM AND THINKS HE HUNG THE STARS IN THE SKY AND LIKE CAN’T KEEP HIS HANDS OFF HIM AND SUPPORTS HIM AND SHOWS HIM LOVE AND CARE THAT LAURENT HAD BEEN DENIED HIS WHOLE LIFE.

I FUCKING CRIED. AND MY STANDARDS ARE SO GODDAMN HIGH NOW. IT WAS ONE KINGDOM ONCE. I THINK IF I GAVE YOU MY HEART, YOU WOULD TREAT IT TENDERLY.

FRIENDS. IS THAT WHAT WE ARE.

ALSJFLAKSJFAJAOIWJFOSNFSLFOWAIJFOWAIJFWLFJWOEFJOWFMOAWIEFJ.

(Warning with Captive Prince: pedophilia and incest are a major plot point but I feel like it’s handled as well as that could be. Also the first book is basically just Slave Kink: The Novel, but no sex really happens and you’re supposed to hate everyone and be uncomfortable even though you’re a bit turned on. Damen and Laurent invented love literally so it all works out.)

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Q&A

Thank you to those who have asked questions, y’all are awesome!! It also means the world to me that we got this far! 80k you guys oh my god! You guys brighten my day I love and appreciate every single one of you!

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Everywhere! I want to visit every 

Which Robin is your personal favorite?

Oh no you didn’t! 😂 I can’t really choose, but I know my least favourite is Tim! (Sorry timmy!) But Dick, Jay and Dami are my boys!

Do you like to read? And if so, do you have a favorite book or series? / favorite book?

I like to read fanfiction, does that count? 😂 But as books, I love ‘Finding Audrey’ by Sophie Kinsella and ‘Everything, Everything’ by Nicola Yoon

What got you into the batboys?/  How did you develop interest in the batfamily?

I have absolutely no idea! Oh, no, actually, I think I saw an imagine on Tumblr a year ago and just started reading fanfiction about it!

Outside the Batfamily, who is your favorite superhero (or superheroes)?

Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Peter Parker Laura Kinney and Logan Howlett! 

do you considere the robin's similar to peter Parker??

Yes, especially Tim!

How to you get inspiration for your one-shots?/  What inspired you to start writing? / What made you want to start writing? What do you do to get inspiration in writing?/ What is your motivation or drive? 

Before I started requests, I just had an accumulation of random stories in my head and had to write them out, now, most things. Sometimes it’s because of dreams, movie I watch with interesting scenes or plot twists, books or general ideas that just pop into my head, sometimes it’s also ‘what if’ type questions, if that makes sense.   

If your favorite batboy died,  how would you feel?

TeRiRbIE, probably mourning for the rest of my life lol.

Young justice season 3?

HELL YEAH DICK IS HAWT AF OMG

What's your favourite food?/ Favorite Food, 

Indian and Mexican food for life!

What do you like the most about your fave batboy?

EVERYTHING, MY BOYS ARE PRECIOUS

Do you think the rumor about Damian being Jason's son is true?

I didn’t hear about this before but nope, I mean how even?? 😂 Like, in most universes, the age gap between the two is between 10 to 14 years, how- I don’t- no, and besides, they come from a completely different background and I don’t know where this is from but it’s always going to be a no in my heart! 

Can you relate to any of the batboys?

All of them! I’ll generalise a lot because this might turn into an essay otherwise lmao.

Damian for his love of animals and hating people in general. Tim for the lack of sleep.  Jason is me tbh. Dick loves puns and jokes as much as I do.

Are Bruce and your father alike?

Kind of?

What's your favourite T.V show?

Sons Of Anarchy, Friends, The Vampire Diaries and Good Girls

Are you looking forward to Titans on October 18th?

I have mixed feelings about it, I’m happy they are making a live action Dick and Jason but it looks really bad, I’m still going to keep an open mind though!

Jason and Artemis or Kori and Dick?

Kori and Dick, I don’t seen Jason and Artemis’ relationship as more than friends, I don’t know what happened in RHATO, which is funny how I keep talking about the comics since I magically have never read any of them??? 

Thoughts on Redhood's transformation In Redhood the Outlaw?

I want my Jaybird hair back. I’m oKaY with the new design but I adore the old design!

Cookies: Alfred or M'gann?

Alfred’s (that was a tough one though!)

Is Brenton Thwaites good enough to be Robin in the upcoming series?

I don’t know! I’ve never really had a good face claim for Dick so I’m going to keep an open mind about it. He’d better had a nice bubble butt though!

Jason's gun or Dick's eskrimas?

Ughh this is haaard! Maybe Dick’s eskrima sticks.

Talia or Selena?

Selena

Poison ivy or Harley Quinn?

Harley Quinn

If you were in DC universe and you will be able to make a crossover it will be with?: Marvel, Transformers, Supernatural

Marvel or Transformers!!

Do you like birdflash?

I only see them as bros but I respect people’s choice of shipping them together!

Besides Batman what other fandoms are you into ?

Marvel, Sons Of Anarchy, Transformers, Stranger Things, Good Girls, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Vampire Diaries and loads more!

What’s your most liked story on wattpad

This one lmao (batboys x reader)

Do you like voltron  if so who’s your favorite paladin

I don’t watch Voltron, sorry, the fandom is insane and scary on Tumblr (without wanting to generalise) . I’ve tried watching an episode but I just can’t seem to get into it!

Will  you take request in the future Not that I’m asking for one I’m just curious I love your writing style

Aw thanks! 🙈 That’s so sweet of you. And yes of course!! I just closed them because I didn’t know when I would be able to have a reliable amount of time to write, I’m opening them soon hopefully! :)

Favorite movie of all time/  What's your favorite movie and why?

Logan, the FeElS, plus my girl Laura plus my man Donald Pierce is in it.

The Dark Knight (the one with Bane and The Joker) both villains are extremely intimidating and Nolan was able to portray them in an extremely terrifying way whilst keeping us on edge for the whole movies! True masterpieces.

Also Tomb Raider because kick some ass queen omg.

favorite character characters

DONALD PIERCE, Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Natasha Romanoff, Laura Kinney, Dick Grayson, Wally West, Roy Harper, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne among so so many others.

favorite (video) game, 

Outlast and Until Dawn! 

Do you have/wish to have any pets? 

Yes I have had a bunch! Three rabbits, a sheep and a goat! I wish I’d have a cat though!

How would you describe your clothing style? 

Comfortable and tries to be at least a little stylish lol

Any artists/celebs You look up to? 

Not really no, I’ve never really looked up to anyone.

What kind of music do you like? 

Pop, Classical not the Mozart type of classical.

Do You have any "rituals" regarding your writing process? 

Yes! If it’s a series, I write the whole plot down on a book with details and elements that I want included. I keep it besie me to be sure I follow the plot whislt writing it.

Since I write in the evening, if there’s a one shot request that I lack inspiration about, I write something else and think of a plot when I’m in bed before i go to sleep. It really helps be get the requests written and in the queue. 

I normally sit in front of my TV, catching up on my series or something and just write. I don’t really have a ritual other than this!

Favourite cartoon?

Young Justice ayyye!

If you were to choose your own name, what would it be? 

I’ve never really thought about it, I don’t know, I like my name! 

But I really like Kia or *gasp* Sam. Not Samantha but just Sam.

Favourite mythical creature? 

Griffin, phenix and dragons!

What language do you wish to speak? 

Italian and Spanish!

Any lucky items/superstisions?

A tiger’s eye necklace my cousin gave me three years ago, I wear it everyday! If you could be any animal, real or mythical, what would you be? 

A tiger, an eagle or a griffin. I can’t choose lol!

Do you think you'd survive in a post apocalyptic world? 

Maybe? I mean I feel like I would be smart enough but I saw World War Z and dying is better than surviving with traumatic experiences running through your head 24/7!

Where would you go for a dream vacation? 

Everywhere! I want to visit the world!

If a genie granted you 3 wishes, what would you wish for? (No wishing for more wishes lol) 

DANG IT! 

1. That everyone should have a different perspective so that they can realise how bad the world is becoming and to change that.

2. Appreciation of every single being on the planet that sexual orientation does not matter in a relationship and that, no matter what you consider yourself, that society accepts you no matter what.

3. That everyone becomes the best person they can possibly be. We could conquer the world!

Do you prefer rain or sun? 

RAIN!

Do you like thunderstorms? 

Hell yeah!

Are you good at puzzles? 

Depends which ones, generally yes. Depending on my mood, I can be very stubborn and finish it and sometimes I’m going to be screw it I give up lol!

What do you enjoy most about life? 

My mutuals, happiness, fraternity, you guys and a few other things I’m sure (can’t remember)

What's your favorite fictional world? (DC, Marvel, Shadowhunters, etc) 

DC, Marvel, Transformers and the 10 year old in me says Narnia as well!

What do you think happens after we die? 

I feel like you’d come back as a different person. I’ve always wanted to believe that you’d become an animal but I have no idea!

If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Indian food!!

Do you like to dance? 

Yes but alone! I’m horrible at dancing!

Where do you feel most comfortable/safe? 

With my best friend! Or at home!

What's something that always makes you smile? 

My mutuals, your comments they seriously make my day a little brighter.

Are you good at gardening? 

Nope I don’t like it either!

What's your preferred footwear? 

Sneakers if that’s what it’s called!

Favorite flower?

Roses!

What fills up your heart to bursting level? 

Kitties and puppies! 😍 Also anything including helping people or animals together and/or animals with their owners.

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done? 

Opening up to someone, showing my feelings and emotions and getting out there to make friends. I haven’t had the best childhood.

What’s your favorite poem or saying? 

“Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst”

And most importantly: do you think we'll ever see good writing again in DC for our favorite characters?

I really hope so, the writers are becoming more and more despised. Only DC fans hate DC on a completely different level of hatred lmao.

What'd you think of Heath Ledger's Joker?

Terrifying. heath Ledge did a fine good job at portraying someome that puts that unsettling feeling in your gut. Every one of his scenes are iconic. The best Joker so far in my opinion. 

whO rAnKs NumBer TwO iN "Batboys with a fresh booty" since we all know dick ranks number one

Hmmmm, 

Conclusion...

That’s a very cute tushy if you ask me!

[not my pics]

what do you think about Erik Lehnsherr and Stephen Strange?

I’m not particularly attacted to Erik but I know he’s misunderstood and I understand why he’s so loveable by many people in the X-Men fandom. But he’s just not my type of guy.

Stephen Strange is badass and a sass master and no one can convince me otherwise. He’s an awesome character.

what would your perfect date with Donnie (Donald Pierce) be like?

Ohhh, going to the movies and then just hanging out somewhere nice, talking and laughing and then ordering takeaway and cuddling up on the couch whilst watching Netflix ahhh! 🙈

[writerleo86]

Terravenger Season 5 - Part One: Episode 346 (Do Not Copy!)

   At the beautiful gardens on the top of the Midas Academy, the chosen students were gathered as their principal Beau Ravenstone had summoned a large portal made of bright purple energy. Meanwhile, the young counselor Mercury stood by the left side of his commander.

   "Now then!" Beau told his students. "Let us of the Midas Armed Forces be off to claim the ultimate prize as we win at the Armed Forces Exams!"

   Tai gave out a determined smile as he thought to himself "Hold on Silver Jay! This is gonna be a ride to remember."

   The large hole of purple light continued to shine and Tai thought more.

   "Me winnin' the entire damn tournament! Or me tryin' at least."

   The students began making their way into the portal as Tai replied in his thoughts "Whatever happens from here on out, I'll do my best!"

Episode 346:  Entering Silver Jay; The Eve of the Exams

   The students along with the two soldiers -- Beau and Mercury -- traveled through the dark void until they all fell onto the ground that was made of the purest white stone.

   After the portal quickly closed, everyone looked forward and found themselves standing before a large rectangular building that was made of white metal.

   The calm girl Iris stood on her feet as she asked "What is this place?"

   Everyone else stood up and Declan who was at the other side of Iris had asked "Is this where we are suppose to be?"

   Their commander Beau walked a few steps forward and informed everyone "This is it. This is the place where your trials will begin."

   "Are you all blind?" questioned Paige.

   And she answered "We have arrived at our destination. We are at the base of the royal city itself. We have come to Silver City. And the building that stands before us... This is where the Terravenger Council reside."

   Next, the soldiers led the students inside the beautiful building. They soon walked through the white hallway until Beau pointed to a pair of large doors before him.

   "You all must go from here," He informed the students. "But the Counselor and I shall meet with all of you at a later time."

   And every student entered through the doors after Beau said "Off you go. And the best of luck."

   The five friends -- Akari, Tai, Clay, Dilan, and Jade -- gathered together as everyone walked through the next hallway.

   "I wonder what this is about?" questioned Akari.

   "Maybe a sign-up sheet or somethin'!" Tai claimed.

   "That..." said Dilan. "...possibly is what this is, Tai."

   At the middle of the long line were the pair of Pacey Deacon and Declan Sharpe.

   "I do not like either the look..." Declan replied. "...or the sound oft this way."

   "I must agree," said Pacey.

   Luna hurried toward them and asked "What do you two think of this?"

   "I have not the foggiest idea," answered Declan.

   And everyone found themselves in a large room full of books on the shelves around them as well as tables, chairs, and couches at the center.

   "This must be like a dorm or such," implied Iris.

   Paige soon discovered a large wooden door in front of her and claimed "I may have found where the girls will stay during our time here."

   Akari walked toward them as Paige pointed at the top of the door with her right finger. And Akari spotted a black sign placed on the wall above the door that said 'LADIES' in white capital letters.

   "You're right Iris," replied Akari. "We are at the center of the dorms."

   Luna quickly joined the three girls and told both Pacey and Declan "I guess I'll see you two later."

   "Very well," said Pacey.

   Then he spotted the door to the dormitory for the boys and informed Luna "We will get settled as well. And I am sure the Commander or somebody else will have us all meet somewhere soon."

   And Pacey found his friend Declan searching around with questioned eyes.

   "What do you think, Sharpe?" He asked.

   Declan answered "I don't know. Something is odd about this place. I just cannot determine it at the moment."

   "This is fair," said Pacey.

   The three other boys -- Tai, Dilan, and Clay -- gathered with them.

   And Tai told Pacey "I guess we're roomies Pal!"

   The group of boys walked inside and found themselves in a large room that was full of beds with clean sheets and pillows. Then they walked forward as two more followed -- Cheetah and Jonny Griffin.

   "Ren told me you were in these games before," implied Cheetah.

   An emotionless Jonny stared forward as he answered "I have been here before."

   The last boy -- Eli Peters -- walked into the room and asked Jonny "Do you know about what type of tests are stored?

   "They change them every year," Jonny told the younger boys. "I don't know what we should expect from Panel this year."

   "Panel?" repeated Cheetah.

   And Jonny answered "The Commander was wrong about this place. And I doubt McCormack knows anything. This is not the Terravenger Council building. This is actually a castle that belongs to Titania Panel."

   Then he walked off as both Cheetah and Eli looked around in question.

   "I guess investigating is in order," Eli implied.

   "Ya think?" asked Cheetah. "Do ya think da Commander fooled all of us about dis place?"

   "I'm sure he did," Eli responded. "We all fell for it. And I think he did this to test us as well."

   The pair were soon approached by Dilan Carr.

   "What is going on with the both of you?" He asked.

   Cheetah folded his arms in front of him and informed Dilan "Peters and I are gonna do some recon of our own."

   "And you Carr," added Eli. "We will need you to come along."

   "Do you mean an investigation?" questioned Dilan.

   Then Eli replied "I don't know. But I think the Commander set us up."

   "What?" cried Dilan. "No way!"

   "We ain't at the Terravenger Council's," Cheetah answered. "Da Commander probably lied his ass off. We're somewhere else. And I gotta find out where."

   "And we need your help Carr," Eli replied. "Your expertise may be of help to us to find out what we can about this place."

   Dilan turned his head away and thought for a moment.

   "Come on Carr!" whispered Cheetah. "Yer da smartest one here! In fact, yer da only one who does recon real good! We need ya for dis!"

   After that, Dilan shook his head and responded.

   "Okay then. I will help you. You both can rely on me."

   Then Dilan lowered his head and told them "I had a bad feeling about this place from the moment we arrived. Besides, I would not mind to go on an adventure right now."

   A smiling Cheetah nodded and asked "Who are ya and where's da real Dilan Carr?"

   "What do you mean?" asked Dilan.

   "You wanna go on dis little adventure wit' us," Cheetah replied. "Dis ain't like ya Mate."

   And Eli informed Dilan "I think Cheetah is trying to say is that you were never the one to be this outgoing."

   Dilan gave out a soft laugh and said "We are at a place of mystery after all. Why wouldn't I want to look around for answers to my own questions?"

   And Cheetah shook his head as he chuckled.

   A smiling Eli nodded his head and said "Then the three of us are on board."

   An hour later, the three students hurried into the first long hallway of the large fortress.

   "This will be an interesting search," Dilan implied. "We happen to be in a large compound. We may get ourselves lost."

   Cheetah informed him "Ain't gonna happen Mate. I got da scent of dis hall down. We'll be fine."

   "And that's why I brought Cheetah along," Eli described. "He has a great sense of smell. That will definitely come in handy."

   The small team began walking through the next hallway that became even darker. So, Eli raised his right thumb and a small golden flame formed from it.

   "I'm so glad..." Cheetah told him. "...yer a fire-type Mate. We needed da light."

   "How did you come to the conclusion..." Dilan asked. "...of this not being where the Terravenger Council resides?"

   "It was Griffin," Eli responded. "He told us that this was not the Terravenger Council's building. He said this castle actually belongs to a Titania Panel."

   "Titania Panel?" Dilan recalled. "I read about her while I researched about the Armed Forces Examinations. She is a member of the Great Admirals. And she is the head that sponsors the Exams."

   "Now we know who did Panel is," said Cheetah. "Now we gotta know where da Commander left us at."

   "I may have an answer to that as well," claimed Dilan.

   The team soon found themselves inside a large dark room that was filled with large portraits hanging on every wall.

   Dilan flipped a switch on the wall by his right side. And the lights were turned on.

   Then the boys looked around and Dilan responded "And this confirms it. We are at one of her family's old homes. It is called Noxpannon, which means Snow Portion in Latin."

   "Apparently she comes from old money," implied Eli.

   Next, Eli discovered a closed door at the far side of the room. So he walked toward it. But before he could touch the knob of the door with his right hand, a rectangular wall made of bright white light had formed at the door. And Eli pounced away immediately.

   "I will not let you go in there,"

   The three boys turned around and spotted someone standing at the other side.

   "Da hell?" cried Cheetah.

   This was a young woman with fair skin and blue-gray eyes. She had on black eyeliner, black eye-shadow, and peach lipstick. And her brunette hair was long and wavy. She wore a white blouse with long sleeves, tight white pants, and short blue boots.

   Cheetah went into his battle stance as he loudly asked "Carr? Dis is her, right? Dat Panel chick?"

   The woman answered "I am the caretaker of this establishment. I was hired by the Lady Admiral to tend to everything that is on the property during her absence."

   "Her caretaker huh?" yelled Cheetah.

   Dilan analyzed the wall of white energy using only his eyes and reported to his partners "This is a barrier made of Light itself. I am not certain either of us will be able to penetrate it, at least not easily."

   Eli walked to the the right side of Cheetah and told him "You might as well stand down. Apparently, the lady doesn't want us to go inside."

   "But why da hell is dat?" shouted Cheetah.

   "You will learn soon enough," said the woman. "But I suggest you all return to your dormitory until you are summoned."

   Dilan hurried to the other side of Cheetah and cried "Let's go you two! I do not want to get anyone from our school in trouble."

   Then Cheetah stood up and yelled "Fine! Let's get outta here!"

   Both Eli and Dilan hurried off as a defensive Cheetah watched the caretaker for a moment as she folded her arms. And the spotted youth left as well.

   And a strong female voice yelled "You're working here now!"

   The caretaker faced forward as someone revealed themselves from the shadows by the right side of the room. She laid her right hand down and the wall of white light faded from the door behind her. And she gave a calm smile as the newcomer walked to her.

   "It has been a while," She implied.

   The person turned out to be the ageless doctor, Engana Vega. She had on black eyeliner and red lipstick. And her long silver hair was worn down. She wore a sleeveless white top, tight turquoise pants, and short brown boots. And her MAF badge was placed on the left side of her chest.

   "It's been almost five years," Vega announced. "Long enough to lose touch."

   "That's not my fault," The caretaker implied. "You seem to be too busy to even take my calls."

   Vega lowered her head as she blew a short breath.

   And she responded "I know. I'm sorry of not keepin' in touch with you. I've been real busy lately."

   Then Vega commented "Panel hired somebody after all this time to take care of her home? The old gal must be going senile."

   "Make fun if you want," The woman told her. "The Lady Admiral has been good and fair to me since I started. In fact, I have never seen her interact with anyone as much as she does with me."

   "She must have been lonely," said Vega. "But she isn't really the talkin' type. So you might have changed her, for the better!"

   The younger woman placed her right hand around her left wrist as she said "And for her to have many people stay at her home. This has been a great change for her."

   Vega gave out a soft laugh and informed her "I think you had a major influence on the Ice Queen."

   "You think so?" questioned the woman.

   And Vega responded "No one's as strong and gifted as you Mallory Murphy. I'm sure you can convince some of the young ladies how to learn how to cook if you wanted."

   Mallory gave out a quick chuckle and said "You always know how to cheer me up Engana."

   After that, Vega placed her right hand on the left arm of the other woman.

   "I'm glad you came, Engana," Mallory told her.

   "Of course," Vega replied. "That's what sisters are for. That, and I gotta be here to watch the exams. Why would I watch it on TV instead of bein' here?"

   Mallory gave out another laugh and implied "It may be that we have students with more promise this time around."

   "Especially from my school," added Vega. "I'm sure the brats from Midas will show the others how it's done."

   And the two women laughed together.

[levysoft]

How to play: a very quick recap

You probably learned the rules of chess somewhere along the line, and whether you did or didn’t you can find a good refresher here. As you’ll (probably) remember, chess is a game built on themes of war, with two opponents attacking each other with their chess armies. Players take turns to move their pieces around an 8x8 board in order to attack and capture enemy soldiers, develop a coordinated battlefield position, and ultimately checkmate the opponent’s king by placing him under an attack from which there is no legal escape.

The pieces

Each player starts the game with sixteen pieces with different movement capabilities:

Eight pawns, which move forward but capture diagonally, which may advance two squares on their first move but otherwise only one at a time, and which never move backwards.

Two knights, which move in an ‘L’ shape—two squares North/South and one square East/West or vice-versa—and are the only pieces that can jump over others.

Two bishops, which move diagonally, one being tethered permanently to light squares and one to dark squares.

Two rooks, which move in straight lines either forward/backward or side-to-side.

One queen, which combines the mobility of the bishops and rooks to move both straight and diagonally.

One king, which can move one square in any direction.

Before we move on, let’s quickly discuss three moves that are different from the others. First, castling is where a player moves their king two squares toward a rook, with that rook moving to the square that the king passed over. Castling is only legal if it is the king’s and rook’s first move, there are no pieces between them, and if the king does not move out of, through, or into, a square attacked by the enemy. Castling is the only move where the king moves more than one square, and where two pieces move. The second one is even more abstract: a pawn that moves forward two squares from its starting position may be captured en passant (French for “in passing”) by an enemy pawn as if the captured pawn had only moved forward one square. This is only allowed on the move immediately following the captured pawn’s advance or the opportunity vanishes, making it a somewhat infrequently-occurring move. It is the only move where a capture is made on a vacant square. Thirdly, when a pawn makes it all the way to the far end of the board, it is promoted to either a queen, rook, bishop, or knight, at the player’s choice. A pawn does not need to be promoted to a piece that has previously been captured, so it’s theoretically possible for a player to end up with nine queens.

The queen, rook, bishop, and knight are all referred to as pieces, and so a player has both pieces and pawns to protect their king, although, somewhat confusingly, the collective term for all the characters on the board is also “pieces.” The queen and rook—the two pieces that can deliver checkmate with the aid only of their king—are the major pieces, while the bishop and knight are the minor pieces.

The board and algebraic notation

The board is an 8x8 grid of alternating light and dark squares. The left-to-right rows are known as ranks, and the up-and-down columns as files. The rank closest to the player with white pieces is the 1st rank, progressing forward to the 8th rank, while white’s left-most file is the a-file, progressing across to the h-file. Accordingly, each square is referred to by its coordinates—a letter and number denoting its rank and file position. White’s lower-left square is a1, while black’s lower-left square is h8.

The white and black pawns begin on the second and seventh ranks respectively, with their armies behind them: rooks in the corners, knights on the next squares in and then bishops, with queens on the d-file, and the kings on the e-file (giving us the terms kingside and queenside for the two halves of the board). If you remember one thing from this article, make it this: set up the board so that the bottom-right square from each player’s point of view is a light square, or else you’re doing it wrong, dummy.

(This doesn’t seem too much to ask, but getting the board set up correctly seems to be a difficult task. Here’s an incomplete list of famous persons Doing Chess Wrong: Hugh Hefner, Conor McGregor, Woody Allen, Leonard Nimoy, Luciano Pavarotti, Madonna, Jay-Z, Austin Powers and Ivana Humpalot, Bill Cosby, Marcel Duchamp, Christopher Lee and Vincent Price, Sir Alec Guinness, Lorna Simpson, Frasier Crane and Norm Peterson, Ja Rule, Gerard Butler, Lady Gaga, the Wu-Tang Clan, John Safran, Andy Dufresne, Aladdin’s Genie and Magic Carpet, Matt Bonner, Wilt Chamberlain, Salvador Dali, Bart Simpson and Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, Bart Simpson again, Zoidberg, Peter Griffin, Brian and Stewie Griffin, Paul Heyman, Sachin Tendulkar, Kim Kardashian, Frank Sinatra, Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali, and Richard Branson. Feel free to post any others you can find in the comments!)

Each move in a chess game is recorded using algebraic notation, which allows games from all over the world to be recorded for posterity. There’s no video footage of games from hundreds of years ago or from small tournaments halfway across the globe, but the recording of moves allows chess players and fans to review, recreate, and analyze tens of millions of games from throughout the sport’s history. These days, games are entered into online databases such as that at ChessGames.com; before the computer era they were circulated by post, published in newspaper columns, and compiled in books of notable games. Then as now, they all matter; chess players study past games in the same way that other competitors break down tape.

Chess notation is easy to learn. All pieces except the pawns are given an identifying initial: K for king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, and N for knight. A move is identified by combining the piece’s initial with its destination square, so the move of a bishop to the c4 square is therefore simply “Bc4”, and verbally stated as “Bishop to c4,” whereas a pawn moving to d6 is just “d6.” If a piece makes a capture, an ‘x’ is inserted between the initial and the square coordinates, so “Qxc1” is “Queen takes on c1.” If a capture is made by a pawn, the letter of the file of its departure precedes the ‘x’: “exd4” is “e takes on d4.” At the end of the game, “1-0” denotes a win for white, “0-1” a win for black, and “½-½” a draw (the only three possible outcomes). That’s 95 percent of what you need to know about that, and you can learn the rest here.

In addition to recording your own games and following those from elite contests across the world, you can relive the oldest chess game ever recorded, played between Francesco di Castellvi and Narciso Vinyoles in Valencia in 1475. Or the first game of the first official World Championship in 1886. Or how about a game between Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer? Or Napoléon Bonaparte getting pantsed by the first chess computer?

Elements and tactics

This seems like the right time to have a look at some of the building blocks of chess: some of the basic elements, and some common tactics.

Elements

Naturally, each piece’s different movement capabilities mean that some are more useful than others. Over the years, chess folks have developed a point system which gauges each piece’s value relative to the others—that is, their material value. To wit: a pawn is said to be worth 1 point, bishops and knights 3 points each, a rook 5 points, and a queen 9 points. This scale is used as a guide by novices and Grandmasters alike, though it is more or less universally accepted that, in a vacuum, a bishop is more valuable than a knight, because it can cover a greater distance with each move. A sequence in which pieces of equal values are captured in succession is known as an exchange (e.g., to exchange queens), and to allow one of your pieces to be captured for free or for lesser compensation is known as a sacrifice. Giving up one of your rooks for an opponent knight or bishop is specifically known as “sacrificing the exchange.”

Players alternate moves throughout a game of chess, and if you are one of those players you should try to make each one count. Each move essentially represents one unit of chess time, known as a tempo (plural: tempi). If you take two moves to achieve what you could achieve with one, you are said to lose a tempo, while you might gain a tempo with a move that forces your opponent to spend their next move retreating one of their pieces.

A chess board is comprised of a finite number of squares, and both players are competing for control over those squares so that they may overcome the opposition. A player has a space advantage if they control a greater number of squares than their opponent. If you have a greater number of pieces attacking a square than your opponent does, you are said to control it. To this end, players fight for control of the center of the board—that’s the most valuable real estate in chess, because pieces stationed in or attacking the middle (principally, the d4, e4, d5, and e5 squares) can control a larger area than those stuck near the edges.

The strength of a player’s pawns goes far beyond merely how many they have, and each side’s pawn structure is one of the most important elements in any game of chess. A pawn chain is a strong line of attack in which pawns are connected in a diagonal line, defending one another and forming a formidable barrier. Two pawns on the same file are doubled, which is generally a bad thing, as the hindmost pawn is blockaded by its teammate. An isolated pawn that does not have any friendly pawns on adjacent files is ripe for being captured by the enemy, as it does not have any one-point comrades to defend it. A passed pawn—having no enemy pawns in front of it on the same or an adjacent file—is worth its weight in gold, as it is a prime candidate to stomp to the end of the board and earn that hard-earned quantum leap of promotion.

Tactics

It is not legal to make a move that would leave your own king under attack from an enemy piece, or in check. (Here seems like a good place to clarify a common misunderstanding: there is no rule requiring you to announce “check” when you make a move that attacks the enemy king.) A piece that blockades an enemy piece from attacking its king is said to be pinned, in that it may not legally move out of the way. A pin can therefore be a powerful tactic, as it may cause a piece to be unable to otherwise fulfill a defensive assignment, or doom a valuable piece to being captured.

A piece that is simultaneously attacking two or more enemy pieces is said to be forking them. A fork is a powerful tactic as the opposition player will usually not be able to save both pieces. A fork attacking the enemy king may be especially devastating as the check must be resolved immediately.

A discovered attack is unleashed when the movement of one of your pieces uncovers an attack on the enemy by one of your other pieces. If the moving piece attacks a valuable piece or delivers a check, your opponent will likely be unable to satisfactorily answer both threats.

While we’re here, let’s throw in a few more foreign-language chess vocab words. A piece that is under attack and not defended is en prise (French for “within grasp”). A player repositioning a piece on its square in an over-the-board game should announce “j’adoube” (French for “I adjust”) to affirm that they are correcting the position of the piece and not moving it. A zwischenzug (or intermezzo, German and Italian respectively for “intermediate move”) is an unexpected move interposed into an apparently forced sequence that requires an immediate response from the opponent. Finally, zugzwang (German for “Ahhh, shit”) is an endgame situation where the player to move has only bad options and is losing by virtue of the fact that they may not pass their turn.

Openings, Middlegame, and Endgame

Here is another bit that you already know: chess games are notionally divided into three phases. These are the opening, the middlegame, and the endgame. There is no clear demarcation between these, although the opening generally refers to the initial period in which players are activating their pieces, the middlegame is generally the period during which players are competing for position and material in the middle of the board, and the endgame begins when many of the major pieces have been captured and each player competes to advance a pawn to promotion and mate the enemy king.

Opening

There are several general aims each player is trying to achieve in the opening. The fight for the center of the board is all-important. Castling is essential, as the king is exposed in his starting position and is safest in the opening and middlegame when hidden behind a wall of pawns toward a corner of the board. Players also need to develop their pieces—to activate them from the back rank into positions where they can more fully contribute to the game. Very generally, your knights are often best stationed on c3 and f3 for white and c6 and f6 for black; your bishops will ideally want to seize control over long diagonals; your queen will want a moderately active role before she springs into life in the middlegame; and you will want to “connect” your rooks on the back rank such that there are no pieces between them. You will in short want to fully mobilize your army as efficiently and effectively as possible. The general rule is to not move the same piece twice in an opening.

About that opening: Over time, a hugely dense body of theory has developed on this topic. Since the starting set-up of the board is fixed, it is possible for players to brute-force memorize optimal responses for variations that might be encountered in common openings. Chess players study theory on a huge array of openings, so that on gameday they can draw on their preparation to choose moves that they know to be theoretically sound and that will push the game in a direction that will support their overall strategy. The most common openings are catalogued and coded in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO).

The moves 1. e4 and 1. d4 are by far the most popular initial moves for white, as they strike boldly into the center and open diagonals for white’s bishops and queen. The English Opening 1. c4 is currently very trendy, and 1. Nf3 is also a good option. Those four are pretty much the only widely-played first moves, although the World Champ busted out the surprise Bird Opening 1. f4 earlier this year and went on to win that game. This is because any other initial move will not capitalise in the center as efficiently as other options and therefore risks wasting white’s first-mover advantage.

Common openings and defences are given names, so, for example, a game that begins 1. e4 c5 (denoting white pushing its e-pawn two squares forward, followed by black doing the same with its c-pawn) would be said to be exhibiting the Sicilian Defense. Depending on the next moves, the game might become an Open or Closed Sicilian, which can then splinter off into different variations (such as the Dragon or the Scheveningen, to name just two). The variations of the Sicilian are in particular extremely well-traversed paths, and so every chess player would know that a Najdorf Sicilian game refers to one that opened with 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6, and would know a range of sound continuations from there. (It’s often said that there have been more books dedicated to chess than to any other game on Earth, and you can find entire books dedicated to Najdorf continuations beginning with 6. Bg5, and on literally thousands of similarly-specific chess topics). Each opening has its positives and negatives according to the specifics and nuances of the position, and some are more solid than others. Theory on the most well-known openings can extend 25 or 30 moves deep. It’s a strange game that way.

As a competitive chess player, you’d need to know theory of many different openings. You might be booked up to the eyeballs on many variations of the Grünfeld Defense (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5), but if your opponent opens with 1. e4 (or responds to your 1. d4 with 1. … d5), you’d need wider preparation to draw on. Indeed, chess players will sometimes try to surprise their opponent by playing an unexpected move from the fringes of theory that the opponent is unlikely to have studied, in the hope that taking the opponent out of book will pay dividends with an error down the line.

Middlegame

In the middlegame, players fight for material, for tactical and strategic advantages, and to prepare for the endgame. The middlegame is far less susceptible to theoretical standardization than the opening and the endgame.

Once you have mobilized your army in the opening, you can start to formulate your middlegame plan based upon an evaluation of the position. You will want to continually improve the position of your pieces, search for combinations that win material, and protect your king. Opportunities might open up on the queenside; that window might quickly close while another opens on the kingside.

Think hard about how to best employ your pieces based on their characteristics. A knight’s strange movements make it versatile, as it can attack any piece (aside from another knight) without that piece attacking it back, and its eight-tentacled reach gives it deadly range. A bishop placed on an important diagonal is a valuable attacker and defender, especially when employed in tandem with its sibling bishop (forming a bishop pair). Rooks are most valuable on open or semi-open files, and are lethal when they invade the seventh rank of the opponent. The queen is the quarterback, facilitating attacking opportunities all over the board, as she is mobile in all different directions and at long distances. Pawns should be used to defend teammates and key squares, prevent enemy pieces from invading your territory, and, at the right moment, to swarm in numbers on your opponent’s defenses in an attack known as a pawnstorm.

Endgame

The endgame sees the last few remaining pieces duke it out to deliver checkmate to the enemy king. While there are many famous endgame scenarios which may be “solved” according to the exact arrangement of the pieces on the board, endgame theory largely revolves around recognizing types of positions that should be winning, losing, or drawing according to theory, and then converting accordingly with principled play. In the endgame, strategy takes precedence over tactics, and each move is precious—one loose move can entirely undo an entire game’s worth of winning play.

The most common aim of the endgame is to usher one of your pawns to the far end of the board in order to promote it to a queen, from which point mating the enemy king should be a formality. Your play will usually be targeted toward this aim, and you will need to take your cue from your and your opponent’s pawn structure, the importance of which is exploited in the endgame but which should be considered right from the opening.

With most of the powerful pieces exchanged off the board, your king is unlikely to be mated before a pawn can be promoted. Therefore, he should be brought to the middle of the board in the endgame, as his omnidirectional attacking capability makes him a valuable weapon. The player who centralizes his or her king first will usually be at an advantage. You will want your king to seize the opposition—facing the enemy king on a rank or file with only one square between them when it is your opponent’s turn to move. Any side-to-side move can be mirrored by your own king, keeping his enemy at bay while you shuffle your pieces around to get your pawn into the endzone.

Thinking like a Grandmaster: Evaluation and calculation

So, what’s the answer to the age-old question: how many moves are chess players thinking ahead? Every Grandmaster will tell you that there’s no fixed number, and also that it’s not really the right question. At each moment, a player is simply trying to make the best move in order to increase their chances of winning. The more relevant question, then, is to ask what an increased chance of winning looks like.

Evaluation

I might be able to calculate what the position would be along a range of different variations, but then what? Is that good? Do I even want to reach that position? What is my best path to winning the game? To answer these questions, chess players must be able to evaluate a position on the chess board.

Evaluation is an incredibly complex art, and one that even super Grandmasters never stop learning. There are no progress scores in chess, and no one-size-fits-all method for securing victory, and so it is not always clear which moves will cause a player to be “winning.” Identifying those moves is what chess is all about.

There’s no definitive list of what needs to be considered in evaluating a position, but the main elements include the following. The easiest to evaluate is material—the collective strength of each side’s army, taking into account the point scale referred to above. (The rule of thumb is that you should aim to exchange pieces when ahead in material, and to exchange pawns when behind.) The king’s safety is paramount, and you’ll almost always want to castle during the opening, to refrain from advancing his protecting pawns unless necessary (to avoid opening up the squares around him to invasion), and defend any potential lines of attack. The activity and coordination of the pieces refers to their position on the board and how effectively they can contribute to the cause—a piece stuck on the back rank or in a far-flung corner of the board may not be as valuable as a piece controlling the center, and well-coordinated pieces will defend each other and key squares while not impeding each other’s movement. Each side’s pawn structure can foreshadow who will have the upper hand in the endgame.

A proper evaluation of a position should lead you toward developing your winning strategy and making the best move. The relative importance of each factor will depend on the totality of the situation, and understanding the dynamics of a position is a fundamental chess skill. Material is certainly important, but a deficit in material may be offset by some compensation in development, position, or danger to the opponent’s king. You can follow an excellent example of a fulsome evaluation of a position here.

Once you’ve evaluated a position and understand where your winning chances lie, you can calculate where your next move might take the game.

Calculation

There are more potential sequences of moves in a game of chess than atoms in the known universe. The game-tree of possible variations spreads so broadly that it’s a near-certainty that the next chess game you play will not match a single game in any chess database; I’d wager, though it would obviously be impossible to prove, that it will be totally unique compared to any game played since the beginning of time. Supercomputers have yet to solve chess, though they may do so one day. In other words, brute force calculation of all possible variations is out of the question.

At each position in a game of chess, a player will have a finite number of legal moves available. Many can be immediately dismissed out of hand, because they would forfeit material, achieve a bad position, or simply not achieve anything useful. Players therefore identify candidate moves (a term coined by GM Alexander Kotov in his famous 1971 book Think Like A Grandmaster), which are those that appear to have some merit and that deserve fulsome scrutiny. (The fundamental rule is that at a minimum all possible checks and captures should always be considered.) Each candidate move, in turn, would provide the opponent with an array of legal responses, most of which will again be dismissed out of hand, leaving a field of responses that may be realistically anticipated, and so on. All-encompassing calculations are therefore inefficient and unnecessary; rather, the decision tree is pruned significantly, right from the root.

Chess players therefore look at the board and envision the pieces moving around, calculating possibilities and then evaluating the positions that arise—if I do this, they can do that or that, and then the board would look like this, that’s no good, what about something else. A position might require nearly no calculation—the recapture of a queen, the resolution of a check, staving off mate-in-one—and moves in these situations are said to be forced. In more complex positions, you might have a large number of potential options, to which there might be a number of good responses for your opponent, and so on. The purpose of the exercise isn’t to calculate zillions of moves ahead just for the sake of it, it’s to identify which of your current available moves improves your chances of winning, and which ones don’t. Ideally, you will consider all relevant variations before making your move. In real life, that’s even tougher than it sounds. You’ll hear chess players say things like “I missed that he/she had Qh4 following that combination” after a loss.

So: let’s think about a move in a position.

It’s our move, with white pieces. Let’s do a quick evaluation of the position. Material is equal. Both kings are relatively safe, and there’s no immediate threat to ours nor obvious attack on theirs. Both sides’ pieces are relatively active, with our e-rook sitting on a nice semi-open file. Black’s bishop is somewhat cramped and immobile. Overall, white looks to have a somewhat better position.

Can we find a combination to win some material? Look at black’s pawn on d5. White has three pieces attacking it (pawn, knight, queen), and black has only two defenders (bishop, queen)—a fairly clear indication that we should be able to make a profit out of a combo. Can we take the pawn? Visualize in your mind what might happen next if we do.

If we take the d-pawn with our e-pawn, black’s bishop is under attack and should move—it can’t take our pawn or we’ll gobble up its queen. So, the black bishop takes our bishop, and we recapture with our knight. We’ve won a pawn and a bishop, and lost only a bishop—a handy profit. If the black queen continues by capturing our knight (now on b5), we take the knight on g4 with our own queen and we’re still ahead, with no apparent adequate compensation for black.

However, we’ve also got a better and cooler combination. Let’s capture the d5 pawn with our knight. Now our bishop is undefended and black may capture it with its bishop. But check this out: then our queen captures the knight on g4! Is that a blunder? Can’t the black queen take ours for free? Nope. Queen takes queen, and then we move our knight to f6 and check. Knight-fork, baby! Our knight is attacking both the black king on g8 and the black queen on g4. The king must move to escape check, and we capture the queen, with the result that we netted a pawn (pawn + knight + queen versus bishop + queen), with no obvious compensation for black. A material advantage is greater when there are fewer pieces on the board, so the fact that this exchange removes the queens is more advantageous, and it’s far more fun.

Note that this combination wouldn’t have worked if our rook was still on f1, because it would now be under attack by the black bishop—the little things matter.

Most elite players will say that trusting their instincts is just as important as trusting their calculations. Experienced players can look at the board and feel the best move—the coup d’œil—and rely on intuition as much as calculation, searching for familiar patterns in each position. This produces more creative and original play, and leads to positions which are themselves more intuitive. Plus, in short-format games there is no time for lengthy calculation and playing by feel is essential. It’s far more fun to play quickly and by instinct, anyway!

So, calculation is an incredibly important tool in ultimately deciding on your next move, but it’s a means to an end, not the end itself. You might only need to calculate one move ahead in a position, or you might end up calculating 15 or 20 moves ahead. It all depends on the circumstances—it’s not like Grandmasters have enough RAM to calculate exactly n moves ahead, but not n + 1. (Hey, if we had a magic chessboard with an infinite number of ranks, and you and I both had 1,000 rooks each facing each other on one file, we could both realistically claim to be able to calculate 1,000 moves ahead.)

Here’s an awesome clip of the GOAT talking through his calculations and evaluations from Game 20 of the 1990 World Championship match:

Practical considerations

First-mover advantage

White always moves first in chess, and from there the players alternate moves throughout the game (there is no passing or moving twice in a row). This rule gives white an inherent advantage, as it can develop its pieces faster via its starting tempo and therefore has a greater ability to push the game in the direction that it wants. In the 23,000-plus games in Chessgames’ database from so far in 2017, white has scored about 54.5 percent, winning approximately 37.7 percent of games, drawing 33.7 percent, and losing only 28.6 percent.

Time restrictions

Chess games can be played under different time controls. There’s the classicalformat for quintessential sit-and-think contests—for example, in the 2017 World Cup, each player has 90 minutes for their first 40 moves, and then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 1. (The exact intervals differ from tournament to tournament.) Then, there are much shorter formats—a rapid game might give each player 25 minutes with a 10 second delay each move, and a blitz game might grant five minutes with a three-second delay. If players are even after a series of games, they might showdown in a single knockout Armageddon game, in which the parameters are prescribed so as to give each side the closest thing to a 50 percent chance of emerging victorious—white might receive five minutes to black’s four, with white needing to win and black only requiring a draw.

In each format, players press a button on a chess clock after making their move, which stops their time running and automatically starts their opponent’s.

It goes without saying that the shorter contests are chalk-and-cheese compared to classical games—it’s common for players to spend 20, 30, or even 40 minutes on a single move under classical time controls—players get up and have a look at the other nearby games in progress while their opponent is pondering their next move, which I find to be an endlessly amusing quirk—but the compressed formats require players to blitz out their moves without allowing much time for thought, resulting in exciting attacking play, inexcusable blunders, and thrilling races against the clock. (Former World Champion Vishy Anand spent an are-you-crazy 1 minute 43 seconds of his available 5 minutes on the fourth move of the 1994 World Blitz Championship semi-final, and went on to win.)

Mating the king

Unlike in every TV show or movie ever to involve chess, checkmates do not come out of the blue as a surprise to an opponent. Elite players invariably resign when a clearly losing position is reached, and over-the-board mates in competition are very rare. Between Grandmasters, a player losing a piece would usually resign on the spot, because unless they have significant compensation in position or initiative there is no realistic likelihood that their opponent will do anything but inevitably cruise to victory. In endgame situations, the difference of a single pawn can be enough to precipitate a handshake. Similarly, a significant positional advantage or an imminent mate will invariably result in resignation. It is seen as disrespectful to play on in a clearly lost position, and most elite players aren’t interested in suffering through a humiliating forced march to checkmate.

In fact, I can only identify mate being delivered over the board once in World Championship history—chess author and player Jimmy Adams alerted me to Alexander Alekhine’s mate of Efim Bogoljubov in Game 8 of their 1929 World Championship match. However, in an interesting quirk pointed out to me by chess author and player Stewart Reuben, three of the most famous and celebrated games in history did indeed end in mate over the board: The Game of the Century, The Immortal Game, and The Evergreen Game.

By the way, the quickest-possible checkmate can be achieved in just two moves, the so-called Fool’s Mate:

Call it a draw

A game can end in a draw in several ways. It could be a stalemate, where a player with the move has no legal move and his/her king is not in check; or threefold repetition (if a position appears on the board for the third time); by the fifty-move rule (if each player has made 50 moves since the last capture or movement of any pawn); by perpetual check (technically a draw by agreement, occurring if one player can perpetually place the enemy king in check without actually being able to deliver mate); or through insufficient mating material, which is when neither player has enough firepower to checkmate the other, for example if the forces are reduced to a king versus a king and knight.

Most commonly, though, games end in a draw by agreement, where players simply shake hands and agree to split the points based on their evaluation of the position on the board. This makes sense in a lot of endgame positions, for example where material and position are equal; between elite players a final result of a draw for one of the above reasons is inevitable. Far more controversial are early agreed draws. The laws of chess permit agreed draws any time after move 1, while some tournaments may prohibit them before a certain point is reached; in the World Championship, for instance, a draw cannot be agreed before move 30. Often, both players are happy to earn a draw, perhaps for rating purposes or to ensure a solid finish in a tournament, and so might go into a game ready to jump at a draw at the first opportunity, especially if the game follows a well-known line in the opening. Some games end in agreed draws after as few as five effing moves. This tends to raise eyebrows, and also to raise questions as to whether the players are truly giving it their all.

Chess as a metaphor

Chess is often referenced in politics, the arts, sports, and elsewhere as a metaphor demonstrating deep intelligence or intellectual superiority. “I’m playing chess while everyone else plays checkers! I’m thinking two whole moves ahead of everyone else! You’re all pawns in my game! Checkmate!”

As often as not, the most common chess metaphors are off the mark. The laziest trope is that chess skills signify intelligence, and vice versa. You do need to be intelligent to become an elite chess player, but that also goes for just about anything worth being good at. A smart person who has never played chess before will be very bad at chess. Similarly, a person who is triumphantly claiming that they stroll through life like a chess Grandmaster, thinking multiple moves ahead of everyone else, is generally just showing us the Dunning-Kruger effect in action.

To make a good analogy, the objects being compared actually need to be analogous. In chess, there are only two actors, they start with equal firepower, and the circumstances that constitute winning and losing are clearly defined. The rules are fixed, there is no hidden information, and everything unfolds within a closed system with no outside interference. These parameters are rarely perfectly replicated in real-life scenarios. They are rarely imperfectly replicated in real-life scenarios.

It’s not to say that chess metaphors can’t be made, or that only Super Grandmasters should make them. It’s the exact opposite—elements of chess show themselves in the real world all the time, and even casual players will know the lizard sensation of recognizing elements of chess in real-life scenarios. Chess teaches how to think strategically, to map out all available options, to anticipate the consequences of your actions, to plan for contingencies, and to choose when to attack and when to defend. Chess themes show up in every sport, in politics, in business, and in every competition or ecosystem with multiple moving parts. Anybody can learn chess, and anybody can learn from chess. I suspect the issue is that non-chess folks see issues from the real world and are tempted to clumsily try to make them fit into how they think chess operates. That’s doing it in reverse—if you take the time to learn the game of chess, you’ll be amazed at how often you see its themes materialize in front of you.

The Global Context and Chess at the Elite Level

The World Championship

The World Championship is decided every two years in a 12-game-plus-tiebreaks match between the reigning champ and one contender, who is the winner of the traditional eight-person Candidates Tournament. That tournament is just as cool as the World Championship match itself, and the race to qualify—the Candidates field is made up of the previous World Championship runner-up, the two highest finishers in two major tournaments, the two otherwise highest-rated players, and one wildcard—is the most enthralling ongoing storyline of each World Championship cycle. Norway’s Magnus Carlsen has been World Champion since 2013, and most recently defeated Russian Sergey Karjakin in tiebreaks in 2016 to retain his title and take home more than half a million Euros in prize money.

Chess is universal, and there are tournaments held all over the world all year round for players of all strengths and ages. The elite players compete in tournaments ranging from the biennial national-team Chess Olympiad, to the single-elimination World Cup, to the big-money events on the new Grand Chess Tour. There are always tournaments happening all around the world, whether age-limited or open, individual or team, knockout or round-robin or Swiss-system.

Ratings

Players earn ratings according to how strongly they perform in tournaments. Chess’s international governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs, pronounced “fee-day”) bases ratings on the Elo rating system, a complex mathematical scheme also employed in other sports and in the algorithm underpinning the predecessor to Facebook. A rating is simply a number that represents a player’s chess ability—the larger the rating the better the player—and which fluctuates up and down after every game according to the player’s results relative to their opponents’ ratings. Players are ranked by their ratings: as of the December 2017 list, Carlsen is currently ranked No. 1 with a rating of 2837 (his May 2014 rating of 2882 is the highest ever recorded), six others are rated just above or below 2800, and the world No. 100 clocks in at 2652. A beginner who understands the rules but not much else would probably be rated lower than 600.

Titles

FIDE awards titles to elite players based on their performance in classical tournament play. In order of increasing prestige, players can become a Candidate Master (carrying the honorific ‘CM’), FIDE Master (FM), International Master (IM), or a Grandmaster (GM). There are separate women-only titles corresponding to each. All titles are granted for life. The byzantine technical criteria which must be fulfilled to achieve Grandmaster status essentially boil down to two requirements: achieving a minimum rating of 2500, and achieving three norms, which are 2600-level results—say, a tournament score of 7/9 against a field of average 2380 rating—in tournaments against diverse and highly-rated opponents, where the field features players from several different nations, at least one-third GMs, and no player rated lower than 2200. Got all that? There are currently 1,570 Grandmasters in the world, although many are now retired or inactive. The countries with the most Grandmasters are Russia (220), Germany (90), USA (89), and Ukraine (86).

Seconds

Just like all sportspeople have coaches and training staff, elite chess players hire other chexperts (chessperts?) to act as seconds—essentially, coaches and assistants to help them prepare for important matches and tournaments. Seconds usually have a particular expertise in certain areas, and may be either active players or semi- or fully-retired. They might be tasked with studying particular opening lines, coming up with novel attacking themes, addressing their player’s weaknesses, or studying a future opponent’s past games, all with a view to briefing their player so that they are fully prepared on game day. Seconds might be engaged on a permanent or ad hoc basis, and many players don’t like disclosing who they’ve got on their team for fear that their seconds’ profiles will hint at what they have prepared.

Supercomputers

You knew this one was coming. The advent of chess engines—supercomputers that calculate millions of possible variations stretching many moves ahead—has fundamentally changed the game of chess, in the same way that the three-point line fundamentally changed basketball. Chess engines are orders of magnitude more powerful and less susceptible to error than even the strongest Grandmasters, and have broadened analysis and research beyond what was ever thought possible. Magnus Carlsen’s ascension to World Champion marked the dawn of a new era in chess, as he is the first champ to have forged his playing career entirely in the age of supercomputers.

At each position in a game, chess engines calculate the best continuations, spitting out recommended moves in order of their strength, and listing the first few moves in the strongest continuation thereafter. Their evaluation functions estimate the chess equivalent of a progress score based on all the factors described above. If an engine evaluates that, all things considered, black has an advantage worth the equivalent of exactly one and a half pawns, the evaluation of the position will yield a “score” of -1.50, with negative numbers indicating an advantage for black and positive an advantage for white.

The open source engine Stockfish, for instance, evaluates the starting position at +0.23 because of white’s first-mover advantage. Chess fans can follow chess games from around the world live on websites such as Chess24, which reports the moves accompanied by Stockfish’s evaluations and calculations, which adds a cool layer of context and analysis (follow the calculations and evaluations of the final game of the 2016 World Championship match here). It’s a lot of fun when a game reaches an extremely complex position, and while the players calculate with furrowed brows we at home can yell things like “I can’t believe he/she hasn’t seen Bxg4 already! It’s so obvious!”

The advent of supercomputers has had an immeasurable impact on chess. It one sense, it has somewhat levelled the field between players, because a player with lesser inherent chess instinct can paper over that gap to a degree with extensive research and preparation. Supercomputers have advanced opening theory by light years, and some variations have fallen out of favor amongst elite players because computer analysis has shown them to be susceptible to a certain attack or defense.

Of course, players have to make the moves on the board based on their own brainpower, and an over-reliance on computer study at the expense of understanding the game of chess can be a player’s undoing. The computer’s recommended move might not always be the best one for a human to make, because it might be reliant on a 35-move combination that a human simply can’t calculate. One challenge for elite Grandmasters is to figure out how best to use engines in their preparation; that is, as a tool to make them better and not as the endpoint of chess itself. One challenge for the chess authorities is to ensure that players aren’t clandestinely using engines during matches—in big tournaments, players are required to walk through airport-style metal detectors before and after games to make sure there’s no funny business.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this tour around the black and white of chess. More than that, I hope you dust off that old chess board you’ve got lying around, play some rapid games against other players online, or download one of the millions of available chess apps. If you’ve got kids, teaching them chess has enormous educational benefits, and it’s never too late for you and them to get started. Spend 10 minutes learning the main lines of some cool openings, like the King’s Indian and the Dragon, and while you’re at it, pick an opening to play just because it has a cool name, like the Pterodactyl, or the Hippopotamus Defense. Try some chess puzzles, borrow a beginner’s strategy book from the library, and attack the enemy king like you’re Mikhail Tal, even if it won’t always come off. Talk some trash, win and lose a few games, have some fun.

Ben is a Deadspin reader who likes chess.

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What Sold at Frieze and TEFAF in New York

Derek Fordjour,Top-Ten ALLSTARS, 2019. Courtesy of Night Gallery.

Amid the miasma of art fairs and museum-quality gallery exhibitions that engulfed New York City last week, one transaction stood out: Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé Knowles, purchased Derek Fordjour’s Top-Ten ALLSTARS (2019)—a single work consisting of 10 boldly colorful portraits—for $200,000 from the Night Gallery booth at Frieze New York.

It’s not entirely surprising that the biggest couple in entertainment got swept up in what’s become arguably the most jam-packed period for the city’s contemporary art world. The week now boasts two world-class fairs in Frieze New York, on Randall’s Island, and TEFAF New York Spring, in the Park Avenue Armory; as well as the New Art Dealers Alliance’s ongoing show on Governors Island, the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and Object & Thing—a new fair in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which combines a scruffy boutique aesthetic, a new booth fee model where galleries only pay according to how much they sell, and radical sales transparency.

Amid the fairs, blockbuster shows alighted at points all across Manhattan. On a five-block stretch of Madison Avenue, one could see exhibitions devoted to Lucian Freud, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and Pablo Picasso, all stuffed with pricey masterpieces. The Picasso show at Gagosian includes a painting Steve Cohen bought from Steve Wynn for $155 million, and the de Kooning show at Mnuchin has Cohen’s Woman III (1952–53), which he purchased from David Geffen in 2006 for $137.5 million. The Warhol exhibition at Lévy Gorvy has Peter Brant’s Licorice Marilyn (1962); Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe paintings have sold for as much as $250 million privately.

And the auction houses swung open their doors for previews on Friday, letting the public see works such as Jeff Koons’s Rabbit (1986), which could sell for as much as $70 million at Christie’s, and Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1960), which could sell for $50 million at Sotheby’s.

But many of the trophy works at the galleries are on loan, and not for sale. We have to wait another week until the bellwether New York evening sales start to see what happens with those top lots. Meanwhile, at the fairs, dealers were selling work at lower price points, but the operations overall set the tone for a week that once again confirmed New York’s position at the center of the art market in North America—and perhaps the world.

Frieze New York sales

Jaume Plensa, Behind the Walls, 2019, presented by Richard Gray Gallery and Galerie Lelong, Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York, 2019. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy of Timothy Schenck/Frieze.

Georg Baselitz’s Pawlow in Oslo (2010) sold for €750,000 (about $840,000) at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac’s booth.

Ropac also sold Baselitz’s Night of the Nightingale IV (Oboznenko) (1998) for €500,000 (about $565,000).

Robert Longo’s Untitled (Rose, November 22, 2017) (2017) sold for $600,000 at the Thaddeus Ropac booth.

Red Grooms’s The Bus (1995), a monumental sculpture installed in the Spotlight sector by Marlborough Contemporary, sold for $550,000.

A Mary Corse painting sold at the Kayne Griffin Corcoran booth for $300,000.

A Doug Aitken work sold at the 303 Gallery booth for $350,000.

Jenny Holzer’s TOP SECRET ENDGAME (2019) sold for $300,000 at the Hauser & Wirth booth.

Holzer’s to endure (2019), also in Hauser & Wirth’s booth, also sold for $300,000.

Holzer’s DO NOT CIRCULATE (2019) sold for $200,000 in the same Hauser & Wirth presentation.

David Zwirner sold all six brand-new large-scale paintings by Harold Ancart, said to be in the range of $200,000 each.

After two straight years where weather undermined the Frieze New York operation, the fair was facing an existential conundrum. Since the inaugural Frieze fair in Los Angeles was lauded for its relatively small-scale 70-gallery format, dealers, collectors, and advisors were all asking: Should the New York fair continue as a 180-gallery behemoth? Judging by the exhibitor list this year, something seemed off. Several galleries—including Blum & Poe, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Anton Kern Gallery, and Esther Schipper—opted out of Frieze New York this year. Others, such as Pace, Skarstedt, Marian Goodman, Almine Rech, and Matthew Marks, not only opted out of Frieze, but decided to participate in the concurrent TEFAF fair instead.

But Loring Randolph, the Frieze artistic director, said fears of a shift in power were unfounded, and that instead of downsizing, the fair was doubling down on New York. This meant adding programming such as Frieze Sculpture in Rockefeller Center, a booth showing virtual reality works curated by Daniel Birnbaum, and collaborations with El Museo del Barrio, the Drawing Center, and the Outsider Art Fair. There is a reason, Randolph said, despite the proliferation of fairs and exhibitions, that the week is still widely referred to as “Frieze Week.”

Harold Ancart, Untitled, 2019. © Harold Ancart/SABAM, Brussels. Photo by JSP Art Photography. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner.

Harold Ancart, Untitled, 2019. © Harold Ancart/SABAM, Brussels. Photo by JSP Art Photography. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner.

“The fair is the anchor of everything—it really is what brings a lot of international people to New York, and it’s what provides the platform for the other fairs to exist this week,” said Randolph, who was previously a director at New York’s Casey Kaplan Gallery. “I know from working for a gallery for so long that it was also one of our busiest weeks. So it’s an event that generates a lot of excitement and enthusiasm for what’s going on in the art world, and we’re the catalyst—which is why we call it Frieze Week.”

The Red Grooms sculpture The Bus was certainly one of the highlights, as it is the size of a real bus and filled with intricately detailed straphangers. It passed the ever-important Instagram test, appearing in the feeds of hundreds (if not thousands) of visitors. What began as a tricky install became a smash hit when Marlborough sold it to a Rotterdam institution hours into the fair, said Max Levai, the principal director of Marlborough Contemporary.

Gagosian also brought A-game material to Frieze, despite also showing at TEFAF and hosting shows of new work by Jeff Wall and Jonas Wood at its galleries in Chelsea—and putting together the awe-inspiring Picasso show, which it did in just over a month. Steven Parrino works hung amid an installation of works by John Chamberlain, which, priced in the range of $3 million, were among the most expensive works at the fair. (Some pointed out that the pairing was a tad discomforting, given that Parrino died in a motorcycle accident at age 46, and Chamberlain’s sculptures are made of crumpled car parts.)

Hauser & Wirth was also doing both of the week’s prestige fairs, and at Frieze, it staged its first Jenny Holzer solo booth since announcing that it would be representing the artist in the U.S., building on its previous arrangement with her in Europe. As ever, the work was timely: Her “Redaction Paintings” series is based on the Mueller Report.

Marc Payot, a partner and vice president at the gallery, said that while several of his colleagues at other New York galleries have ditched one fair for another or opted out of both to focus on the programming in their local spaces, Hauser & Wirth is committed to both expos.

“For us, it’s important because we can serve a very different part of our program to an entirely different audience,” Payot said. “Being in New York, of course we participate in the important New York fairs.”

TEFAF New York Spring sales

Installation view of Red Groom, The Bus, 1995, at Frieze New York, 2019. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower/Frieze.

A 2011 George Condo painting sold at the Simon Lee Gallery booth for $2.2 million.

Concetto Spaziale (1962) by Lucio Fontana sold for $2 million at the Cardi booth.

Thirty-eight drawings by Georg Baselitz sold at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac booth for €1 million ($1.1 million), and another Baselitz, a large painting, sold for an undisclosed price.

Pace sold the Jean Dubuffet ceramic piece Personnage (1965), the painting Fait Divers (1981), and two black-and-white works on paper. The prices ranged from $600,000 to $3 million.

TEFAF New York Spring has only been around since 2017, but already, it has established itself as a must-attend fair for most of the country’s trophy-hunting art collectors. Not only was there an Amedeo Modigliani painting, Jeune fille assise, les cheveux dénoués (Jeune fille en blue) (1919), on sale for $30 million at the Hammer Gallery booth, and a $20-million Paul Gauguin work, Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar (1896), at the Wildenstein Gallery booth, there were also billionaires with more than enough funds to purchase them, including David Geffen, Barry Diller, Ronald Lauder, and David Mugrabi.

That doesn’t mean things were flying off the walls. The tight, 90-gallery fair appeals to the type of secondary market mavens who play the long game and bring works that may not actually sell here, but could in a private transaction down the line. Case in point: Christophe Van de Weghe once again hauled out Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 painting Onion Gum, which gave me what I called “severe art-world déjà vu” as I had already seen it in his booths at FIAC in October, Art Basel in Miami Beach in December, TEFAF Maastricht earlier in March, and at Art Basel Hong Kong later that month. It’s also worth noting that TEFAF stays open through Tuesday, giving collectors a couple more days to buy.

But the fact that TEFAF is luring big shops away from Frieze signals that it’s a fair on equal footing, even if it is half the size.

“I think Frieze is wonderful, I think we have different work going to both fairs, but we have a few dealers that overlap that bring different inventory, and they tend to really like that,” said Sofie Scheerlinck, the managing director of TEFAF New York. “That overlap is so important and we both value that, in my opinion.”

Paysage avec 2 personnages, May 8-1980. Jean Dubuffet Pace Gallery

Situation CIX (Site agreste à l'auto), February 28-1979. Jean Dubuffet Pace Gallery

One of the galleries that left Frieze for TEFAF is Pace, which is doing the fair for the first time, and saw success selling Dubuffets at a price point well beyond what would have worked at Frieze.

“A great deal of the collectors that we used to see at Frieze are now TEFAF clients,” said Adam Scheffer, a vice president at the gallery. “I think the market has shifted, I think people are looking for real historical, blue-chip works for which there is real art-historical merit, and there’s market value. We’ve had some very significant sales to people who previously were not well-associated with Dubuffet.”

But despite the very serious nature of such high-value works, Pace was still able to give fairgoers a bit of the interactive, Instagram-friendly spectacle that keeps visitors coming back to these expos all over the world—even amid the rise of online viewing rooms that make buying possible without booking a flight and the very real malaise called “fairtigue.” The gallery hired a dancer to play an animated Dubuffet painting that appeared in dance-based works such as Coucou Bazar, and the colorful sprite flitted among the well-heeled collectors and the men shucking oysters at the entrance to the fair’s main space.

And, as Scheerlinck made clear, the fair—with its $30-million paintings and spreads of champagne and fresh shellfish—will be back for next year.

“I heard from someone that we were gonna move the fair to Nashville,” she joked. “No, we’re committed to New York. Three years in, we’ve really established ourselves, and we’re definitely here for the long run.”

from Artsy News

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Here are NHL expansion draft protected lists for Vegas Golden Knights

The 30 NHL teams not named the Vegas Golden Knights submitted their expansion draft protected lists on Saturday, and on Sunday those lists were released to the public.

Teams had the option of protecting seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie; or eight skaters and one goalie. Players with no-movement clauses had to be protected by teams, unless they agreed to waive them.

As a reminder: The Golden Knights have to draft at least 14 forwards, nie defensemen and three goalies. They get one player from each team. The value of the players they draft needs to be between 60 percent and 100 percent of the upper limit of the salary cap, meaning they need to take on some big contracts; but they’re not allowed to buy out any players that they select until next summer.

Oh, and there will of course be trades made with Vegas, in an attempt to get them to stay off certain exposed players – or with teams that want the Knights to select players and then ship them to them. It’s like money laundering, but with players!

As the Golden Knights passive aggressively put in on Saturday in a statement: “Vegas has indicated that they will give all 30 clubs every opportunity to keep their rosters intact if they’d like. This means that before the Golden Knights claim a player off a team’s unprotected list, McPhee and his staff are willing to negotiate deals so the other clubs do not lose a player they would otherwise like to keep.”

OK, so who is available? Here are the lists!

ANAHEIM DUCKS

Available Spencer Abbott (F) Jared Boll (F) Sam Carrick (F) Patrick Eaves (F) Emerson Etem (F) Ryan Garbutt (F) Max Gortz (F) Nicolas Kerdiles (F) Andre Petersson (F) Logan Shaw (F) Nick Sorensen (F) Nate Thompson (F) Corey Tropp (F) Chris Wagner (F) Nate Guenin (D) Korbinian Holzer (D) Josh Manson (D) Jaycob Megna (D) Jeff Schultz (D) Clayton Stoner (D) Sami Vatanen (D) Jonathan Bernier (G) Jhonas Enroth (G) Ryan Faragher (G) Matt Hackett (G) Dustin Tokarski (G)

Protected Andrew Cogliano (F) Ryan Getzlaf (F) Ryan Kesler (F) Corey Perry (F) Rickard Rakell (F) Jakob Silfverberg (F) Antoine Vermette (F) Kevin Bieksa (D) Cam Fowler (D) Hampus Lindholm (D) John Gibson (G)

ARIZONA COYOTES

Available Alexander Burmistrov (F) Shane Doan (F) Tyler Gaudet (F) Peter Holland (F) Josh Jooris (F) Jamie McGinn (F) Jeremy Morin (F) Mitchell Moroz (F) Chris Mueller (F) Teemu Pulkkinen (F) Brad Richardson (F) Garret Ross (F) Branden Troock (F) Radim Vrbata (F) Joe Whitney (F) Kevin Connauton (D) Jamie McBain (D) Zbynek Michalek (D) Jarred Tinordi (D) Louis Domingue (G)

Protected Nick Cousins (F) Anthony Duclair (F) Jordan Martinook (F) Tobias Rieder (F) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (D) Alex Goligoski (D) Connor Murphy (D) Luke Schenn (D) Chad Johnson (G)

BOSTON BRUINS

Available Matt Beleskey (F) Brian Ferlin (F) Jimmy Hayes (F) Alex Khokhlachev (F) Dominic Moore (F) Tyler Randell (F) Zac Rinaldo (F) Tim Schaller (F) Drew Stafford (F) Linus Arnesson (D) Chris Casto (D) Tommy Cross (D) Alex Grant (D) John-Michael Liles (D) Adam McQuaid (D) Colin Miller (D) Joe Morrow (D) Anton Khudobin (G) Malcolm Subban (G)

Protected David Backes (F) Patrice Bergeron (F) David Krejci (F) Brad Marchand (F) Riley Nash (F) David Pastrnak (F) Ryan Spooner (F) Zdeno Chara (D) Torey Krug (D) Kevan Miller (D) Tuukka Rask (G)

BUFFALO SABRES

Available William Carrier (F) Nicolas Deslauriers (F) Brian Gionta (F) Derek Grant (F) Justin Kea (F) Matt Moulson (F) Cal O’Reilly (F) Cole Schneider (F) Brady Austin (D) Mathew Bodie (D) Zach Bogosian (D) Justin Falk (D) Taylor Fedun (D) Cody Franson (D) Josh Gorges (D) Dmitry Kulikov (D) Anders Nilsson (G) Linus Ullmark (G)

Protected Tyler Ennis (F) Marcus Foligno (F) Zemgus Girgensons (F) Evander Kane (F) Johan Larsson (F) Ryan O’Reilly (F) Kyle Okposo (F) Nathan Beaulieu (D) Jake McCabe (D) Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Robin Lehner (G)

CALGARY FLAMES

Available Brandon Bollig (F) Lance Bouma (F) Troy Brouwer (F) Alex Chiasson (F) Freddie Hamilton (F) Emile Poirier (F) Hunter Shinkaruk (F) Matt Stajan (F) Kris Versteeg (F) Linden Vey (F) Matt Bartkowski (D) Ryan Culkin (D) Deryk Engelland (D) Michael Kostka (D) Brett Kulak (D) Ladislav Smid (D) Michael Stone (D) Dennis Wideman (D) Tyler Wotherspoon (D) Brian Elliott (G) Tom McCollum (G)

Protected Mikael Backlund (F) Sam Bennett (F) Micheal Ferland (F) Michael Frolik (F) Johnny Gaudreau (F) Curtis Lazar (F) Sean Monahan (F) T.J. Brodie (D) Mark Giordano (D) Dougie Hamilton (D) Mike Smith (G)

CAROLINA HURRICANES

Available Bryan Bickell (F) Connor Brickley (F) Patrick Brown (F) Erik Karlsson (F) Danny Kristo (F) Jay McClement (F) Andrew Miller (F) Andrej Nestrasil (F) Joakim Nordstrom (F) Lee Stempniak (F) Brendan Woods (F) Klas Dahlbeck (D) Dennis Robertson (D) Philip Samuelsson (D) Matt Tennyson (D) Daniel Altshuller (G) Eddie Lack (G) Michael Leighton (G) Cam Ward (G)

Protected Phillip Di Giuseppe (F) Elias Lindholm (F) Brock McGinn (F) Victor Rask (F) Jeff Skinner (F) Jordan Staal (F) Teuvo Teravainen (F) Trevor Carrick (D) Justin Faulk (D) Ryan Murphy (D) Scott Darling (G)

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS

Available Kyle Baun (F) Andrew Desjardins (F) Marcus Kruger (F) Pierre-Cedric Labrie (F) Michael Latta (F) Brandon Mashinter (F) Dennis Rasmussen (F) Jordin Tootoo (F) Brian Campbell (D) Dillon Fournier (D) Shawn Lalonde (D) Johnny Oduya (D) Ville Pokka (D) Michal Rozsival (D) Viktor Svedberg (D) Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) Mac Carruth (G) Jeff Glass (G)

Protected Artem Anisimov (F) Ryan Hartman (F) Marian Hossa (F) Tomas Jurco (F) Patrick Kane (F) Richard Panik (F) Jonathan Toews (F) Niklas Hjalmarsson (D) Duncan Keith (D) Brent Seabrook (D) Corey Crawford (G)

COLORADO AVALANCHE

Available Troy Bourke (F) Gabriel Bourque (F) Rene Bourque (F) Joe Colborne (F) Turner Elson (F) Felix Girard (F) Mikhail Grigorenko (F) Samuel Henley (F) John Mitchell (F) Jim O’Brien (F) Brendan Ranford (F) Mike Sislo (F) Carl Soderberg (F) Mark Barberio (D) Mat Clark (D) Eric Gelinas (D) Cody Goloubef (D) Duncan Siemens (D) Fedor Tyutin (D) Patrick Wiercioch (D) Joe Cannata (G) Calvin Pickard (G) Jeremy Smith (G)

Protected Sven Andrighetto (F) Blake Comeau (F) Matt Duchene (F) Rocco Grimaldi (F) Gabriel Landeskog (F) Nathan MacKinnon (F) Matt Nieto (F) Tyson Barrie (D) Erik Johnson (D) Nikita Zadorov (D) Semyon Varlamov (G)

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

Available Josh Anderson (F) Alex Broadhurst (F) Matt Calvert (F) Zac Dalpe (F) Sam Gagner (F) Brett Gallant (F) William Karlsson (F) Lauri Korpikoski (F) Lukas Sedlak (F) T.J. Tynan (F) Daniel Zaar (F) Marc-Andre Bergeron (D) Scott Harrington (D) Jack Johnson (D) Kyle Quincey (D) John Ramage (D) Jaime Sifers (D) Ryan Stanton (D) Oscar Dansk (G) Anton Forsberg (G) Joonas Korpisalo (G)

Protected Cam Atkinson (F) Brandon Dubinsky (F) Nick Foligno (F) Scott Hartnell (F) Boone Jenner (F) Brandon Saad (F) Alexander Wennberg (F) Seth Jones (D) Ryan Murray (D) David Savard (D) Sergei Bobrovsky (G)

DALLAS STARS

Available Adam Cracknell (F) Justin Dowling (F) Cody Eakin (F) Ales Hemsky (F) Jiri Hudler (F) Curtis McKenzie (F) Mark McNeill (F) Travis Morin (F) Patrick Sharp (F) Gemel Smith (F) Matej Stransky (F) Mattias Backman (D) Andrew Bodnarchuk (D) Ludwig Bystrom (D) Nick Ebert (D) Justin Hache (D) Dan Hamhuis (D) Patrik Nemeth (D) Jamie Oleksiak (D) Greg Pateryn (D) Dustin Stevenson (D) Henri Kiviaho (G) Maxime Lagace (G) Kari Lehtonen (G) Antti Niemi (G) Justin Peters (G)

Protected Jamie Benn (F) Radek Faksa (F) Valeri Nichushkin (F) Brett Ritchie (F) Antoine Roussel (F) Tyler Seguin (F) Jason Spezza (F) Stephen Johns (D) John Klingberg (D) Esa Lindell (D) Ben Bishop (G)

DETROIT RED WINGS

Available Louis-Marc Aubry (F) Mitch Callahan (F) Colin Campbell (F) Martin Frk (F) Luke Glendening (F) Darren Helm (F) Drew Miller (F) Tomas Nosek (F) Riley Sheahan (F) Ben Street (F) Eric Tangradi (F) Adam Almquist (D) Jonathan Ericsson (D) Niklas Kronwall (D) Brian Lashoff (D) Dylan McIlrath (D) Xavier Ouellet (D) Ryan Sproul (D) Jared Coreau (G) Petr Mrazek (G) Edward Pasquale (G) Jake Paterson (G)

Protected Justin Abdelkader (F) Andreas Athanasiou (F) Anthony Mantha (F) Frans Nielsen (F) Gustav Nyquist (F) Tomas Tatar (F) Henrik Zetterberg (F) Danny DeKeyser (D) Mike Green (D) Nick Jensen (D) Jimmy Howard (G)

EDMONTON OILERS

Available David Desharnais (F) Justin Fontaine (F) Matt Hendricks (F) Roman Horak (F) Jujhar Khaira (F) Anton Lander (F) Iiro Pakarinen (F) Tyler Pitlick (F) Zach Pochiro (F) Benoit Pouliot (F) Henrik Samuelsson (F) Bogdan Yakimov (F) Mark Fayne (D) Andrew Ference (D) Mark Fraser (D) Eric Gryba (D) David Musil (D) Jordan Oesterle (D) Griffin Reinhart (D) Kris Russell (D) Dillon Simpson (D) Laurent Brossoit (G) Jonas Gustavsson (G)

Protected Leon Draisaitl (F) Jordan Eberle (F) Zack Kassian (F) Mark Letestu (F) Milan Lucic (F) Patrick Maroon (F) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (F) Oscar Klefbom (D) Adam Larsson (D) Andrej Sekera (D) Cam Talbot (G)

FLORIDA PANTHERS

Available Graham Black (F) Tim Bozon (F) Jaromir Jagr (F) Jussi Jokinen (F) Derek MacKenzie (F) Jonathan Marchessault (F) Colton Sceviour (F) Michael Sgarbossa (F) Reilly Smith (F) Brody Sutter (F) Paul Thompson (F) Shawn Thornton (F) Thomas Vanek (F) Jason Demers (D) Jakub Kindl (D) Brent Regner (D) Reece Scarlett (D) MacKenzie Weegar (D) Reto Berra (G) Sam Brittain (G) Roberto Luongo (G)

Protected Aleksander Barkov (F) Nick Bjugstad (F) Jonathan Huberdeau (F) Vincent Trocheck (F) Aaron Ekblad (D) Alex Petrovic (D) Mark Pysyk (D) Keith Yandle (D) James Reimer (G)

LOS ANGELES KINGS

Available Andy Andreoff (F) Justin Auger (F) Dustin Brown (F) Kyle Clifford (F) Andrew Crescenzi (F) Nic Dowd (F) Marian Gaborik (F) Jarome Iginla (F) Trevor Lewis (F) Michael Mersch (F) Jordan Nolan (F) Teddy Purcell (F) Devin Setoguchi (F) Nick Shore (F) Matt Greene (D) Vincent Loverde (D) Brayden McNabb (D) Cameron Schilling (D) Rob Scuderi (D) Zach Trotman (D) Jack Campbell (G) Jeff Zatkoff (G)

Protected Jeff Carter (F) Anze Kopitar (F) Tanner Pearson (F) Tyler Toffoli (F) Drew Doughty (D) Derek Forbort (D) Alec Martinez (D) Jake Muzzin (D) Jonathan Quick (G)

MINNESOTA WILD

Available Brady Brassart (F) Patrick Cannone (F) Ryan Carter (F) Kurtis Gabriel (F) Martin Hanzal (F) Erik Haula (F) Zack Mitchell (F) Jordan Schroeder (F) Eric Staal (F) Chris Stewart (F) Ryan White (F) Victor Bartley (D) Matt Dumba (D) Christian Folin (D) Guillaume Gelinas (D) Alexander Gudbranson (D) Gustav Olofsson (D) Nate Prosser (D) Marco Scandella (D) Mike Weber (D) Johan Gustafsson (G) Darcy Kuemper (G) Alex Stalock (G)

Protected Charlie Coyle (F) Mikael Granlund (F) Mikko Koivu (F) Nino Niederreiter (F) Zach Parise (F) Jason Pominville (F) Jason Zucker (F) Jonas Brodin (D) Jared Spurgeon (D) Ryan Suter (D) Devan Dubnyk (G)

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Available Daniel Carr (F) Connor Crisp (F) Jacob De La Rose (F) Bobby Farnham (F) Brian Flynn (F) Max Friberg (F) Charles Hudon (F) Dwight King (F) Stefan Matteau (F) Torrey Mitchell (F) Joonas Nattinen (F) Steve Ott (F) Tomas Plekanec (F) Alexander Radulov (F) Chris Terry (F) Brandon Davidson (D) Alexei Emelin (D) Keegan Lowe (D) Andrei Markov (D) Nikita Nesterov (D) Zach Redmond (D) Dalton Thrower (D) Al Montoya (G)

Protected Paul Byron (F) Phillip Danault (F) Jonathan Drouin (F) Alex Galchenyuk (F) Brendan Gallagher (F) Max Pacioretty (F) Andrew Shaw (F) Jordie Benn (D) Jeff Petry (D) Shea Weber (D) Carey Price (G)

NASHVILLE PREDATORS

Available Pontus Aberg (F) Cody Bass (F) Vernon Fiddler (F) Mike Fisher (F) Cody McLeod (F) James Neal (F) PA Parenteau (F) Adam Payerl (F) Mike Ribeiro (F) Miikka Salomaki (F) Colton Sissons (F) Craig Smith (F) Trevor Smith (F) Austin Watson (F) Colin Wilson (F) Harry Zolnierczyk (F) Taylor Aronson (D) Anthony Bitetto (D) Stefan Elliott (D) Petter Granberg (D) Brad Hunt (D) Matt Irwin (D) Andrew O’Brien (D) Adam Pardy (D) Jaynen Rissling (D) Scott Valentine (D) Yannick Weber (D) Marek Mazanec (G)

Protected Viktor Arvidsson (F) Filip Forsberg (F) Calle Jarnkrok (F) Ryan Johansen (F) Mattias Ekholm (D) Ryan Ellis (D) Roman Josi (D) P.K. Subban (D) Pekka Rinne (G)

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

Available Beau Bennett (F) Michael Cammalleri (F) Carter Camper (F) Luke Gazdic (F) Shane Harper (F) Jacob Josefson (F) Ivan Khomutov (F) Stefan Noesen (F) Marc Savard (F) Devante Smith-Pelly (F) Petr Straka (F) Mattias Tedenby (F) Ben Thomson (F) David Wohlberg (F) Seth Helgeson (D) Viktor Loov (D) Ben Lovejoy (D) Andrew MacWilliam (D) Jon Merrill (D) Dalton Prout (D) Karl Stollery (D) Alexander Urbom (D) Keith Kinkaid (G) Scott Wedgewood (G)

Protected Taylor Hall (F) Adam Henrique (F) Kyle Palmieri (F) Travis Zajac (F) Andy Greene (D) John Moore (D) Mirco Mueller (D) Damon Severson (D) Cory Schneider (G)

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Available Josh Bailey (F) Steve Bernier (F) Eric Boulton (F) Jason Chimera (F) Casey Cizikas (F) Cal Clutterbuck (F) Stephen Gionta (F) Ben Holmstrom (F) Bracken Kearns (F) Nikolay Kulemin (F) Brock Nelson (F) Shane Prince (F) Alan Quine (F) Ryan Strome (F) Johan Sundstrom (F) Calvin de Haan (D) Matthew Finn (D) Jesse Graham (D) Thomas Hickey (D) Loic Leduc (D) Scott Mayfield (D) Dennis Seidenberg (D) Jean-Francois Berube (G) Christopher Gibson (G) Jaroslav Halak (G)

Protected Andrew Ladd (F) Anders Lee (F) John Tavares (F) Johnny Boychuk (D) Travis Hamonic (D) Nick Leddy (D) Adam Pelech (D) Ryan Pulock (D) Thomas Greiss (G)

NEW YORK RANGERS

Available Taylor Beck (F) Chris Brown (F) Daniel Catenacci (F) Jesper Fast (F) Tanner Glass (F) Michael Grabner (F) Marek Hrivik (F) Nicklas Jensen (F) Carl Klingberg (F) Oscar Lindberg (F) Brandon Pirri (F) Matt Puempel (F) Adam Clendening (D) Tommy Hughes (D) Steven Kampfer (D) Kevin Klein (D) Michael Paliotta (D) Brendan Smith (D) Chris Summers (D) Magnus Hellberg (G) Antti Raanta (G) Mackenzie Skapski (G)

Protected Kevin Hayes (F) Chris Kreider (F) J.T. Miller (F) Rick Nash (F) Derek Stepan (F) Mika Zibanejad (F) Mats Zuccarello (F) Nick Holden (D) Ryan McDonagh (D) Marc Staal (D) Henrik Lundqvist (G)

OTTAWA SENATORS

Available Casey Bailey (F) Mike Blunden (F) Alexandre Burrows (F) Stephane Da Costa (F) Christopher DiDomenico (F) Nikita Filatov (F) Chris Kelly (F) Clarke MacArthur (F) Max McCormick (F) Chris Neil (F) Tom Pyatt (F) Ryan Rupert (F) Bobby Ryan (F) Viktor Stalberg (F) Phil Varone (F) Tommy Wingels (F) Mark Borowiecki (D) Fredrik Claesson (D) Brandon Gormley (D) Jyrki Jokipakka (D) Marc Methot (D) Patrick Sieloff (D) Chris Wideman (D) Mikael Wikstrand (D) Mike Condon (G) Chris Driedger (G) Andrew Hammond (G)

Protected Derick Brassard (F) Ryan Dzingel (F) Mike Hoffman (F) Jean-Gabriel Pageau (F) Zack Smith (F) Mark Stone (F) Kyle Turris (F) Cody Ceci (D) Erik Karlsson (D) Dion Phaneuf (D) Craig Anderson (G)

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

Available Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (F) Greg Carey (F) Chris Conner (F) Boyd Gordon (F) Taylor Leier (F) Colin McDonald (F) Andy Miele (F) Michael Raffl (F) Matt Read (F) Chris VandeVelde (F) Jordan Weal (F) Dale Weise (F) Eric Wellwood (F) Mark Alt (D) TJ Brennan (D) Michael Del Zotto (D) Andrew MacDonald (D) Will O’Neill (D) Jesper Pettersson (D) Nick Schultz (D) Steve Mason (G) Michal Neuvirth (G)

Protected Sean Couturier (F) Valtteri Filppula (F) Claude Giroux (F) Scott Laughton (F) Brayden Schenn (F) Wayne Simmonds (F) Jakub Voracek (F) Shayne Gostisbehere (D) Radko Gudas (D) Brandon Manning (D) Anthony Stolarz (G)

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS

Available Josh Archibald (F) Nick Bonino (F) Matt Cullen (F) Jean-Sebastien Dea (F) Carl Hagelin (F) Tom Kuhnhackl (F) Chris Kunitz (F) Kevin Porter (F) Bryan Rust (F) Tom Sestito (F) Oskar Sundqvist (F) Dominik Uher (F) Garrett Wilson (F) Scott Wilson (F) Ian Cole (D) Frank Corrado (D) Trevor Daley (D) Tim Erixon (D) Cameron Gaunce (D) Ron Hainsey (D) Stuart Percy (D) Derrick Pouliot (D) Chad Ruhwedel (D) Mark Streit (D) David Warsofsky (D) Marc-Andre Fleury (G)

Protected Sidney Crosby (F) Patric Hornqvist (F) Phil Kessel (F) Evgeni Malkin (F) Brian Dumoulin (D) Kris Letang (D) Olli Maatta (D) Justin Schultz (D) Matt Murray (G)

SAN JOSE SHARKS

Available Mikkel Boedker (F) Barclay Goodrow (F) Micheal Haley (F) Patrick Marleau (F) Buddy Robinson (F) Zack Stortini (F) Joe Thornton (F) Joel Ward (F) Dylan DeMelo (D) Brenden Dillon (D) Dan Kelly (D) Paul Martin (D) David Schlemko (D) Aaron Dell (G) Troy Grosenick (G) Harri Sateri (G)

Protected Ryan Carpenter (F) Logan Couture (F) Jannik Hansen (F) Tomas Hertl (F) Melker Karlsson (F) Joe Pavelski (F) Chris Tierney (F) Justin Braun (D) Brent Burns (D) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (D) Martin Jones (G)

ST. LOUIS BLUES

Available Kenny Agostino (F) Andrew Agozzino (F) Kyle Brodziak (F) Jordan Caron (F) Jacob Doty (F) Landon Ferraro (F) Alex Friesen (F) Evgeny Grachev (F) Dmitrij Jaskin (F) Jori Lehtera (F) Brad Malone (F) Magnus Paajarvi (F) David Perron (F) Ty Rattie (F) Scottie Upshall (F) Nail Yakupov (F) Robert Bortuzzo (D) Chris Butler (D) Morgan Ellis (D) Carl Gunnarsson (D) Jani Hakanpaa (D) Petteri Lindbohm (D) Reid McNeill (D) Jordan Binnington (G) Carter Hutton (G)

Protected Patrik Berglund (F) Ryan Reaves (F) Jaden Schwartz (F) Vladimir Sobotka (F) Paul Stastny (F) Alexander Steen (F) Vladimir Tarasenko (F) Jay Bouwmeester (D) Joel Edmundson (D) Alex Pietrangelo (D) Jake Allen (G)

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

Available Carter Ashton (F) Michael Bournival (F) J.T. Brown (F) Cory Conacher (F) Erik Condra (F) Gabriel Dumont (F) Stefan Fournier (F) Byron Froese (F) Yanni Gourde (F) Mike Halmo (F) Henri Ikonen (F) Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (F) Tye McGinn (F) Greg McKegg (F) Cedric Paquette (F) Tanner Richard (F) Joel Vermin (F) Dylan Blujus (D) Jake Dotchin (D) Jason Garrison (D) Slater Koekkoek (D) Jonathan Racine (D) Andrej Sustr (D) Matt Taormina (D) Luke Witkowski (D) Peter Budaj (G) Kristers Gudlevskis (G) Jaroslav Janus (G) Mike McKenna (G)

Protected Ryan Callahan (F) Tyler Johnson (F) Alex Killorn (F) Nikita Kucherov (F) Vladislav Namestnikov (F) Ondrej Palat (F) Steven Stamkos (F) Braydon Coburn (D) Victor Hedman (D) Anton Stralman (D) Andrei Vasilevskiy (G)

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

Available Brian Boyle (F) Eric Fehr (F) Colin Greening (F) Seth Griffith (F) Teemu Hartikainen (F) Brooks Laich (F) Brendan Leipsic (F) Joffrey Lupul (F) Milan Michalek (F) Kerby Rychel (F) Ben Smith (F) Andrew Campbell (D) Matt Hunwick (D) Alexey Marchenko (D) Martin Marincin (D) Steve Oleksy (D) Roman Polak (D) Antoine Bibeau (G) Curtis McElhinney (G) Garret Sparks (G)

Protected Tyler Bozak (F) Connor Brown (F) Nazem Kadri (F) Leo Komarov (F) Josh Leivo (F) Matt Martin (F) James van Riemsdyk (F) Connor Carrick (D) Jake Gardiner (D) Morgan Rielly (D) Frederik Andersen (G)

VANCOUVER CANUCKS

Available Reid Boucher (F) Michael Chaput (F) Joseph Cramarossa (F) Derek Dorsett (F) Brendan Gaunce (F) Alexandre Grenier (F) Jayson Megna (F) Borna Rendulic (F) Anton Rodin (F) Drew Shore (F) Jack Skille (F) Michael Zalewski (F) Alex Biega (D) Philip Larsen (D) Tom Nilsson (D) Andrey Pedan (D) Luca Sbisa (D) Richard Bachman (G) Ryan Miller (G)

Protected Sven Baertschi (F) Loui Eriksson (F) Markus Granlund (F) Bo Horvat (F) Daniel Sedin (F) Henrik Sedin (F) Brandon Sutter (F) Alexander Edler (D) Erik Gudbranson (D) Christopher Tanev (D) Jacob Markstrom (G)

WASHINGTON CAPITALS

Available Jay Beagle (F) Chris Bourque (F) Paul Carey (F) Brett Connolly (F) Stanislav Galiev (F) Tyler Graovac (F) Garrett Mitchell (F) Liam O’Brien (F) T.J. Oshie (F) Zach Sill (F) Chandler Stephenson (F) Christian Thomas (F) Nathan Walker (F) Justin Williams (F) Daniel Winnik (F) Karl Alzner (D) Taylor Chorney (D) Cody Corbett (D) Darren Dietz (D) Christian Djoos (D) Tom Gilbert (D) Aaron Ness (D) Brooks Orpik (D) Nate Schmidt (D) Kevin Shattenkirk (D) Pheonix Copley (G) Philipp Grubauer (G)

Protected Nicklas Backstrom (F) Andre Burakovsky (F) Lars Eller (F) Marcus Johansson (F) Evgeny Kuznetsov (F) Alex Ovechkin (F) Tom Wilson (F) John Carlson (D) Matt Niskanen (D) Dmitry Orlov (D) Braden Holtby (G)

WINNIPEG JETS

Available Marko Dano (F) Quinton Howden (F) Scott Kosmachuk (F) Tomas Kubalik (F) JC Lipon (F) Shawn Matthias (F) Ryan Olsen (F) Anthony Peluso (F) Chris Thorburn (F) Ben Chiarot (D) Toby Enstrom (D) Brenden Kichton (D) Julian Melchiori (D) Paul Postma (D) Brian Strait (D) Mark Stuart (D) Michael Hutchinson (G) Ondrej Pavelec (G)

Protected Joel Armia (F) Andrew Copp (F) Bryan Little (F) Adam Lowry (F) Mathieu Perreault (F) Mark Scheifele (F) Blake Wheeler (F) Dustin Byfuglien (D) Tyler Myers (D) Jacob Trouba (D) Connor Hellebuyck (G)

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Here are NHL expansion draft protected lists for Vegas Golden Knights

The 30 NHL teams not named the Vegas Golden Knights submitted their expansion draft protected lists on Saturday, and on Sunday those lists were released to the public.

Teams had the option of protecting seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie; or eight skaters and one goalie. Players with no-movement clauses had to be protected by teams, unless they agreed to waive them.

As a reminder: The Golden Knights have to draft at least 14 forwards, nine defensemen and three goalies. They get one player from each team. The value of the players they draft needs to be between 60 percent and 100 percent of the upper limit of the salary cap, meaning they need to take on some big contracts; but they’re not allowed to buy out any players that they select until next summer.

Oh, and there will of course be trades made with Vegas, in an attempt to get them to stay off certain exposed players – or with teams that want the Knights to select players and then ship them to them. It’s like money laundering, but with players!

As the Golden Knights passive aggressively put out Saturday in a statement: “Vegas has indicated that they will give all 30 clubs every opportunity to keep their rosters intact if they’d like. This means that before the Golden Knights claim a player off a team’s unprotected list, McPhee and his staff are willing to negotiate deals so the other clubs do not lose a player they would otherwise like to keep.”

OK, so who is available? Here are the lists!

ANAHEIM DUCKS

Available Spencer Abbott (F) Jared Boll (F) Sam Carrick (F) Patrick Eaves (F) Emerson Etem (F) Ryan Garbutt (F) Max Gortz (F) Nicolas Kerdiles (F) Andre Petersson (F) Logan Shaw (F) Nick Sorensen (F) Nate Thompson (F) Corey Tropp (F) Chris Wagner (F) Nate Guenin (D) Korbinian Holzer (D) Josh Manson (D) Jaycob Megna (D) Jeff Schultz (D) Clayton Stoner (D) Sami Vatanen (D) Jonathan Bernier (G) Jhonas Enroth (G) Ryan Faragher (G) Matt Hackett (G) Dustin Tokarski (G)

Protected Andrew Cogliano (F) Ryan Getzlaf (F) Ryan Kesler (F) Corey Perry (F) Rickard Rakell (F) Jakob Silfverberg (F) Antoine Vermette (F) Kevin Bieksa (D) Cam Fowler (D) Hampus Lindholm (D) John Gibson (G)

ARIZONA COYOTES

Available Alexander Burmistrov (F) Shane Doan (F) Tyler Gaudet (F) Peter Holland (F) Josh Jooris (F) Jamie McGinn (F) Jeremy Morin (F) Mitchell Moroz (F) Chris Mueller (F) Teemu Pulkkinen (F) Brad Richardson (F) Garret Ross (F) Branden Troock (F) Radim Vrbata (F) Joe Whitney (F) Kevin Connauton (D) Jamie McBain (D) Zbynek Michalek (D) Jarred Tinordi (D) Louis Domingue (G)

Protected Nick Cousins (F) Anthony Duclair (F) Jordan Martinook (F) Tobias Rieder (F) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (D) Alex Goligoski (D) Connor Murphy (D) Luke Schenn (D) Chad Johnson (G)

BOSTON BRUINS

Available Matt Beleskey (F) Brian Ferlin (F) Jimmy Hayes (F) Alex Khokhlachev (F) Dominic Moore (F) Tyler Randell (F) Zac Rinaldo (F) Tim Schaller (F) Drew Stafford (F) Linus Arnesson (D) Chris Casto (D) Tommy Cross (D) Alex Grant (D) John-Michael Liles (D) Adam McQuaid (D) Colin Miller (D) Joe Morrow (D) Anton Khudobin (G) Malcolm Subban (G)

Protected David Backes (F) Patrice Bergeron (F) David Krejci (F) Brad Marchand (F) Riley Nash (F) David Pastrnak (F) Ryan Spooner (F) Zdeno Chara (D) Torey Krug (D) Kevan Miller (D) Tuukka Rask (G)

BUFFALO SABRES

Available William Carrier (F) Nicolas Deslauriers (F) Brian Gionta (F) Derek Grant (F) Justin Kea (F) Matt Moulson (F) Cal O’Reilly (F) Cole Schneider (F) Brady Austin (D) Mathew Bodie (D) Zach Bogosian (D) Justin Falk (D) Taylor Fedun (D) Cody Franson (D) Josh Gorges (D) Dmitry Kulikov (D) Anders Nilsson (G) Linus Ullmark (G)

Protected Tyler Ennis (F) Marcus Foligno (F) Zemgus Girgensons (F) Evander Kane (F) Johan Larsson (F) Ryan O’Reilly (F) Kyle Okposo (F) Nathan Beaulieu (D) Jake McCabe (D) Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Robin Lehner (G)

CALGARY FLAMES

Available Brandon Bollig (F) Lance Bouma (F) Troy Brouwer (F) Alex Chiasson (F) Freddie Hamilton (F) Emile Poirier (F) Hunter Shinkaruk (F) Matt Stajan (F) Kris Versteeg (F) Linden Vey (F) Matt Bartkowski (D) Ryan Culkin (D) Deryk Engelland (D) Michael Kostka (D) Brett Kulak (D) Ladislav Smid (D) Michael Stone (D) Dennis Wideman (D) Tyler Wotherspoon (D) Brian Elliott (G) Tom McCollum (G)

Protected Mikael Backlund (F) Sam Bennett (F) Micheal Ferland (F) Michael Frolik (F) Johnny Gaudreau (F) Curtis Lazar (F) Sean Monahan (F) T.J. Brodie (D) Mark Giordano (D) Dougie Hamilton (D) Mike Smith (G)

CAROLINA HURRICANES

Available Bryan Bickell (F) Connor Brickley (F) Patrick Brown (F) Erik Karlsson (F) Danny Kristo (F) Jay McClement (F) Andrew Miller (F) Andrej Nestrasil (F) Joakim Nordstrom (F) Lee Stempniak (F) Brendan Woods (F) Klas Dahlbeck (D) Dennis Robertson (D) Philip Samuelsson (D) Matt Tennyson (D) Daniel Altshuller (G) Eddie Lack (G) Michael Leighton (G) Cam Ward (G)

Protected Phillip Di Giuseppe (F) Elias Lindholm (F) Brock McGinn (F) Victor Rask (F) Jeff Skinner (F) Jordan Staal (F) Teuvo Teravainen (F) Trevor Carrick (D) Justin Faulk (D) Ryan Murphy (D) Scott Darling (G)

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS

Available Kyle Baun (F) Andrew Desjardins (F) Marcus Kruger (F) Pierre-Cedric Labrie (F) Michael Latta (F) Brandon Mashinter (F) Dennis Rasmussen (F) Jordin Tootoo (F) Brian Campbell (D) Dillon Fournier (D) Shawn Lalonde (D) Johnny Oduya (D) Ville Pokka (D) Michal Rozsival (D) Viktor Svedberg (D) Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) Mac Carruth (G) Jeff Glass (G)

Protected Artem Anisimov (F) Ryan Hartman (F) Marian Hossa (F) Tomas Jurco (F) Patrick Kane (F) Richard Panik (F) Jonathan Toews (F) Niklas Hjalmarsson (D) Duncan Keith (D) Brent Seabrook (D) Corey Crawford (G)

COLORADO AVALANCHE

Available Troy Bourke (F) Gabriel Bourque (F) Rene Bourque (F) Joe Colborne (F) Turner Elson (F) Felix Girard (F) Mikhail Grigorenko (F) Samuel Henley (F) John Mitchell (F) Jim O’Brien (F) Brendan Ranford (F) Mike Sislo (F) Carl Soderberg (F) Mark Barberio (D) Mat Clark (D) Eric Gelinas (D) Cody Goloubef (D) Duncan Siemens (D) Fedor Tyutin (D) Patrick Wiercioch (D) Joe Cannata (G) Calvin Pickard (G) Jeremy Smith (G)

Protected Sven Andrighetto (F) Blake Comeau (F) Matt Duchene (F) Rocco Grimaldi (F) Gabriel Landeskog (F) Nathan MacKinnon (F) Matt Nieto (F) Tyson Barrie (D) Erik Johnson (D) Nikita Zadorov (D) Semyon Varlamov (G)

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

Available Josh Anderson (F) Alex Broadhurst (F) Matt Calvert (F) Zac Dalpe (F) Sam Gagner (F) Brett Gallant (F) William Karlsson (F) Lauri Korpikoski (F) Lukas Sedlak (F) T.J. Tynan (F) Daniel Zaar (F) Marc-Andre Bergeron (D) Scott Harrington (D) Jack Johnson (D) Kyle Quincey (D) John Ramage (D) Jaime Sifers (D) Ryan Stanton (D) Oscar Dansk (G) Anton Forsberg (G) Joonas Korpisalo (G)

Protected Cam Atkinson (F) Brandon Dubinsky (F) Nick Foligno (F) Scott Hartnell (F) Boone Jenner (F) Brandon Saad (F) Alexander Wennberg (F) Seth Jones (D) Ryan Murray (D) David Savard (D) Sergei Bobrovsky (G)

DALLAS STARS

Available Adam Cracknell (F) Justin Dowling (F) Cody Eakin (F) Ales Hemsky (F) Jiri Hudler (F) Curtis McKenzie (F) Mark McNeill (F) Travis Morin (F) Patrick Sharp (F) Gemel Smith (F) Matej Stransky (F) Mattias Backman (D) Andrew Bodnarchuk (D) Ludwig Bystrom (D) Nick Ebert (D) Justin Hache (D) Dan Hamhuis (D) Patrik Nemeth (D) Jamie Oleksiak (D) Greg Pateryn (D) Dustin Stevenson (D) Henri Kiviaho (G) Maxime Lagace (G) Kari Lehtonen (G) Antti Niemi (G) Justin Peters (G)

Protected Jamie Benn (F) Radek Faksa (F) Valeri Nichushkin (F) Brett Ritchie (F) Antoine Roussel (F) Tyler Seguin (F) Jason Spezza (F) Stephen Johns (D) John Klingberg (D) Esa Lindell (D) Ben Bishop (G)

DETROIT RED WINGS

Available Louis-Marc Aubry (F) Mitch Callahan (F) Colin Campbell (F) Martin Frk (F) Luke Glendening (F) Darren Helm (F) Drew Miller (F) Tomas Nosek (F) Riley Sheahan (F) Ben Street (F) Eric Tangradi (F) Adam Almquist (D) Jonathan Ericsson (D) Niklas Kronwall (D) Brian Lashoff (D) Dylan McIlrath (D) Xavier Ouellet (D) Ryan Sproul (D) Jared Coreau (G) Petr Mrazek (G) Edward Pasquale (G) Jake Paterson (G)

Protected Justin Abdelkader (F) Andreas Athanasiou (F) Anthony Mantha (F) Frans Nielsen (F) Gustav Nyquist (F) Tomas Tatar (F) Henrik Zetterberg (F) Danny DeKeyser (D) Mike Green (D) Nick Jensen (D) Jimmy Howard (G)

EDMONTON OILERS

Available David Desharnais (F) Justin Fontaine (F) Matt Hendricks (F) Roman Horak (F) Jujhar Khaira (F) Anton Lander (F) Iiro Pakarinen (F) Tyler Pitlick (F) Zach Pochiro (F) Benoit Pouliot (F) Henrik Samuelsson (F) Bogdan Yakimov (F) Mark Fayne (D) Andrew Ference (D) Mark Fraser (D) Eric Gryba (D) David Musil (D) Jordan Oesterle (D) Griffin Reinhart (D) Kris Russell (D) Dillon Simpson (D) Laurent Brossoit (G) Jonas Gustavsson (G)

Protected Leon Draisaitl (F) Jordan Eberle (F) Zack Kassian (F) Mark Letestu (F) Milan Lucic (F) Patrick Maroon (F) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (F) Oscar Klefbom (D) Adam Larsson (D) Andrej Sekera (D) Cam Talbot (G)

FLORIDA PANTHERS

Available Graham Black (F) Tim Bozon (F) Jaromir Jagr (F) Jussi Jokinen (F) Derek MacKenzie (F) Jonathan Marchessault (F) Colton Sceviour (F) Michael Sgarbossa (F) Reilly Smith (F) Brody Sutter (F) Paul Thompson (F) Shawn Thornton (F) Thomas Vanek (F) Jason Demers (D) Jakub Kindl (D) Brent Regner (D) Reece Scarlett (D) MacKenzie Weegar (D) Reto Berra (G) Sam Brittain (G) Roberto Luongo (G)

Protected Aleksander Barkov (F) Nick Bjugstad (F) Jonathan Huberdeau (F) Vincent Trocheck (F) Aaron Ekblad (D) Alex Petrovic (D) Mark Pysyk (D) Keith Yandle (D) James Reimer (G)

LOS ANGELES KINGS

Available Andy Andreoff (F) Justin Auger (F) Dustin Brown (F) Kyle Clifford (F) Andrew Crescenzi (F) Nic Dowd (F) Marian Gaborik (F) Jarome Iginla (F) Trevor Lewis (F) Michael Mersch (F) Jordan Nolan (F) Teddy Purcell (F) Devin Setoguchi (F) Nick Shore (F) Matt Greene (D) Vincent Loverde (D) Brayden McNabb (D) Cameron Schilling (D) Rob Scuderi (D) Zach Trotman (D) Jack Campbell (G) Jeff Zatkoff (G)

Protected Jeff Carter (F) Anze Kopitar (F) Tanner Pearson (F) Tyler Toffoli (F) Drew Doughty (D) Derek Forbort (D) Alec Martinez (D) Jake Muzzin (D) Jonathan Quick (G)

MINNESOTA WILD

Available Brady Brassart (F) Patrick Cannone (F) Ryan Carter (F) Kurtis Gabriel (F) Martin Hanzal (F) Erik Haula (F) Zack Mitchell (F) Jordan Schroeder (F) Eric Staal (F) Chris Stewart (F) Ryan White (F) Victor Bartley (D) Matt Dumba (D) Christian Folin (D) Guillaume Gelinas (D) Alexander Gudbranson (D) Gustav Olofsson (D) Nate Prosser (D) Marco Scandella (D) Mike Weber (D) Johan Gustafsson (G) Darcy Kuemper (G) Alex Stalock (G)

Protected Charlie Coyle (F) Mikael Granlund (F) Mikko Koivu (F) Nino Niederreiter (F) Zach Parise (F) Jason Pominville (F) Jason Zucker (F) Jonas Brodin (D) Jared Spurgeon (D) Ryan Suter (D) Devan Dubnyk (G)

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Available Daniel Carr (F) Connor Crisp (F) Jacob De La Rose (F) Bobby Farnham (F) Brian Flynn (F) Max Friberg (F) Charles Hudon (F) Dwight King (F) Stefan Matteau (F) Torrey Mitchell (F) Joonas Nattinen (F) Steve Ott (F) Tomas Plekanec (F) Alexander Radulov (F) Chris Terry (F) Brandon Davidson (D) Alexei Emelin (D) Keegan Lowe (D) Andrei Markov (D) Nikita Nesterov (D) Zach Redmond (D) Dalton Thrower (D) Al Montoya (G)

Protected Paul Byron (F) Phillip Danault (F) Jonathan Drouin (F) Alex Galchenyuk (F) Brendan Gallagher (F) Max Pacioretty (F) Andrew Shaw (F) Jordie Benn (D) Jeff Petry (D) Shea Weber (D) Carey Price (G)

NASHVILLE PREDATORS

Available Pontus Aberg (F) Cody Bass (F) Vernon Fiddler (F) Mike Fisher (F) Cody McLeod (F) James Neal (F) PA Parenteau (F) Adam Payerl (F) Mike Ribeiro (F) Miikka Salomaki (F) Colton Sissons (F) Craig Smith (F) Trevor Smith (F) Austin Watson (F) Colin Wilson (F) Harry Zolnierczyk (F) Taylor Aronson (D) Anthony Bitetto (D) Stefan Elliott (D) Petter Granberg (D) Brad Hunt (D) Matt Irwin (D) Andrew O’Brien (D) Adam Pardy (D) Jaynen Rissling (D) Scott Valentine (D) Yannick Weber (D) Marek Mazanec (G)

Protected Viktor Arvidsson (F) Filip Forsberg (F) Calle Jarnkrok (F) Ryan Johansen (F) Mattias Ekholm (D) Ryan Ellis (D) Roman Josi (D) P.K. Subban (D) Pekka Rinne (G)

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

Available Beau Bennett (F) Michael Cammalleri (F) Carter Camper (F) Luke Gazdic (F) Shane Harper (F) Jacob Josefson (F) Ivan Khomutov (F) Stefan Noesen (F) Marc Savard (F) Devante Smith-Pelly (F) Petr Straka (F) Mattias Tedenby (F) Ben Thomson (F) David Wohlberg (F) Seth Helgeson (D) Viktor Loov (D) Ben Lovejoy (D) Andrew MacWilliam (D) Jon Merrill (D) Dalton Prout (D) Karl Stollery (D) Alexander Urbom (D) Keith Kinkaid (G) Scott Wedgewood (G)

Protected Taylor Hall (F) Adam Henrique (F) Kyle Palmieri (F) Travis Zajac (F) Andy Greene (D) John Moore (D) Mirco Mueller (D) Damon Severson (D) Cory Schneider (G)

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Available Josh Bailey (F) Steve Bernier (F) Eric Boulton (F) Jason Chimera (F) Casey Cizikas (F) Cal Clutterbuck (F) Stephen Gionta (F) Ben Holmstrom (F) Bracken Kearns (F) Nikolay Kulemin (F) Brock Nelson (F) Shane Prince (F) Alan Quine (F) Ryan Strome (F) Johan Sundstrom (F) Calvin de Haan (D) Matthew Finn (D) Jesse Graham (D) Thomas Hickey (D) Loic Leduc (D) Scott Mayfield (D) Dennis Seidenberg (D) Jean-Francois Berube (G) Christopher Gibson (G) Jaroslav Halak (G)

Protected Andrew Ladd (F) Anders Lee (F) John Tavares (F) Johnny Boychuk (D) Travis Hamonic (D) Nick Leddy (D) Adam Pelech (D) Ryan Pulock (D) Thomas Greiss (G)

NEW YORK RANGERS

Available Taylor Beck (F) Chris Brown (F) Daniel Catenacci (F) Jesper Fast (F) Tanner Glass (F) Michael Grabner (F) Marek Hrivik (F) Nicklas Jensen (F) Carl Klingberg (F) Oscar Lindberg (F) Brandon Pirri (F) Matt Puempel (F) Adam Clendening (D) Tommy Hughes (D) Steven Kampfer (D) Kevin Klein (D) Michael Paliotta (D) Brendan Smith (D) Chris Summers (D) Magnus Hellberg (G) Antti Raanta (G) Mackenzie Skapski (G)

Protected Kevin Hayes (F) Chris Kreider (F) J.T. Miller (F) Rick Nash (F) Derek Stepan (F) Mika Zibanejad (F) Mats Zuccarello (F) Nick Holden (D) Ryan McDonagh (D) Marc Staal (D) Henrik Lundqvist (G)

OTTAWA SENATORS

Available Casey Bailey (F) Mike Blunden (F) Alexandre Burrows (F) Stephane Da Costa (F) Christopher DiDomenico (F) Nikita Filatov (F) Chris Kelly (F) Clarke MacArthur (F) Max McCormick (F) Chris Neil (F) Tom Pyatt (F) Ryan Rupert (F) Bobby Ryan (F) Viktor Stalberg (F) Phil Varone (F) Tommy Wingels (F) Mark Borowiecki (D) Fredrik Claesson (D) Brandon Gormley (D) Jyrki Jokipakka (D) Marc Methot (D) Patrick Sieloff (D) Chris Wideman (D) Mikael Wikstrand (D) Mike Condon (G) Chris Driedger (G) Andrew Hammond (G)

Protected Derick Brassard (F) Ryan Dzingel (F) Mike Hoffman (F) Jean-Gabriel Pageau (F) Zack Smith (F) Mark Stone (F) Kyle Turris (F) Cody Ceci (D) Erik Karlsson (D) Dion Phaneuf (D) Craig Anderson (G)

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

Available Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (F) Greg Carey (F) Chris Conner (F) Boyd Gordon (F) Taylor Leier (F) Colin McDonald (F) Andy Miele (F) Michael Raffl (F) Matt Read (F) Chris VandeVelde (F) Jordan Weal (F) Dale Weise (F) Eric Wellwood (F) Mark Alt (D) TJ Brennan (D) Michael Del Zotto (D) Andrew MacDonald (D) Will O’Neill (D) Jesper Pettersson (D) Nick Schultz (D) Steve Mason (G) Michal Neuvirth (G)

Protected Sean Couturier (F) Valtteri Filppula (F) Claude Giroux (F) Scott Laughton (F) Brayden Schenn (F) Wayne Simmonds (F) Jakub Voracek (F) Shayne Gostisbehere (D) Radko Gudas (D) Brandon Manning (D) Anthony Stolarz (G)

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS

Available Josh Archibald (F) Nick Bonino (F) Matt Cullen (F) Jean-Sebastien Dea (F) Carl Hagelin (F) Tom Kuhnhackl (F) Chris Kunitz (F) Kevin Porter (F) Bryan Rust (F) Tom Sestito (F) Oskar Sundqvist (F) Dominik Uher (F) Garrett Wilson (F) Scott Wilson (F) Ian Cole (D) Frank Corrado (D) Trevor Daley (D) Tim Erixon (D) Cameron Gaunce (D) Ron Hainsey (D) Stuart Percy (D) Derrick Pouliot (D) Chad Ruhwedel (D) Mark Streit (D) David Warsofsky (D) Marc-Andre Fleury (G)

Protected Sidney Crosby (F) Patric Hornqvist (F) Phil Kessel (F) Evgeni Malkin (F) Brian Dumoulin (D) Kris Letang (D) Olli Maatta (D) Justin Schultz (D) Matt Murray (G)

SAN JOSE SHARKS

Available Mikkel Boedker (F) Barclay Goodrow (F) Micheal Haley (F) Patrick Marleau (F) Buddy Robinson (F) Zack Stortini (F) Joe Thornton (F) Joel Ward (F) Dylan DeMelo (D) Brenden Dillon (D) Dan Kelly (D) Paul Martin (D) David Schlemko (D) Aaron Dell (G) Troy Grosenick (G) Harri Sateri (G)

Protected Ryan Carpenter (F) Logan Couture (F) Jannik Hansen (F) Tomas Hertl (F) Melker Karlsson (F) Joe Pavelski (F) Chris Tierney (F) Justin Braun (D) Brent Burns (D) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (D) Martin Jones (G)

ST. LOUIS BLUES

Available Kenny Agostino (F) Andrew Agozzino (F) Kyle Brodziak (F) Jordan Caron (F) Jacob Doty (F) Landon Ferraro (F) Alex Friesen (F) Evgeny Grachev (F) Dmitrij Jaskin (F) Jori Lehtera (F) Brad Malone (F) Magnus Paajarvi (F) David Perron (F) Ty Rattie (F) Scottie Upshall (F) Nail Yakupov (F) Robert Bortuzzo (D) Chris Butler (D) Morgan Ellis (D) Carl Gunnarsson (D) Jani Hakanpaa (D) Petteri Lindbohm (D) Reid McNeill (D) Jordan Binnington (G) Carter Hutton (G)

Protected Patrik Berglund (F) Ryan Reaves (F) Jaden Schwartz (F) Vladimir Sobotka (F) Paul Stastny (F) Alexander Steen (F) Vladimir Tarasenko (F) Jay Bouwmeester (D) Joel Edmundson (D) Alex Pietrangelo (D) Jake Allen (G)

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

Available Carter Ashton (F) Michael Bournival (F) J.T. Brown (F) Cory Conacher (F) Erik Condra (F) Gabriel Dumont (F) Stefan Fournier (F) Byron Froese (F) Yanni Gourde (F) Mike Halmo (F) Henri Ikonen (F) Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (F) Tye McGinn (F) Greg McKegg (F) Cedric Paquette (F) Tanner Richard (F) Joel Vermin (F) Dylan Blujus (D) Jake Dotchin (D) Jason Garrison (D) Slater Koekkoek (D) Jonathan Racine (D) Andrej Sustr (D) Matt Taormina (D) Luke Witkowski (D) Peter Budaj (G) Kristers Gudlevskis (G) Jaroslav Janus (G) Mike McKenna (G)

Protected Ryan Callahan (F) Tyler Johnson (F) Alex Killorn (F) Nikita Kucherov (F) Vladislav Namestnikov (F) Ondrej Palat (F) Steven Stamkos (F) Braydon Coburn (D) Victor Hedman (D) Anton Stralman (D) Andrei Vasilevskiy (G)

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

Available Brian Boyle (F) Eric Fehr (F) Colin Greening (F) Seth Griffith (F) Teemu Hartikainen (F) Brooks Laich (F) Brendan Leipsic (F) Joffrey Lupul (F) Milan Michalek (F) Kerby Rychel (F) Ben Smith (F) Andrew Campbell (D) Matt Hunwick (D) Alexey Marchenko (D) Martin Marincin (D) Steve Oleksy (D) Roman Polak (D) Antoine Bibeau (G) Curtis McElhinney (G) Garret Sparks (G)

Protected Tyler Bozak (F) Connor Brown (F) Nazem Kadri (F) Leo Komarov (F) Josh Leivo (F) Matt Martin (F) James van Riemsdyk (F) Connor Carrick (D) Jake Gardiner (D) Morgan Rielly (D) Frederik Andersen (G)

VANCOUVER CANUCKS

Available Reid Boucher (F) Michael Chaput (F) Joseph Cramarossa (F) Derek Dorsett (F) Brendan Gaunce (F) Alexandre Grenier (F) Jayson Megna (F) Borna Rendulic (F) Anton Rodin (F) Drew Shore (F) Jack Skille (F) Michael Zalewski (F) Alex Biega (D) Philip Larsen (D) Tom Nilsson (D) Andrey Pedan (D) Luca Sbisa (D) Richard Bachman (G) Ryan Miller (G)

Protected Sven Baertschi (F) Loui Eriksson (F) Markus Granlund (F) Bo Horvat (F) Daniel Sedin (F) Henrik Sedin (F) Brandon Sutter (F) Alexander Edler (D) Erik Gudbranson (D) Christopher Tanev (D) Jacob Markstrom (G)

WASHINGTON CAPITALS

Available Jay Beagle (F) Chris Bourque (F) Paul Carey (F) Brett Connolly (F) Stanislav Galiev (F) Tyler Graovac (F) Garrett Mitchell (F) Liam O’Brien (F) T.J. Oshie (F) Zach Sill (F) Chandler Stephenson (F) Christian Thomas (F) Nathan Walker (F) Justin Williams (F) Daniel Winnik (F) Karl Alzner (D) Taylor Chorney (D) Cody Corbett (D) Darren Dietz (D) Christian Djoos (D) Tom Gilbert (D) Aaron Ness (D) Brooks Orpik (D) Nate Schmidt (D) Kevin Shattenkirk (D) Pheonix Copley (G) Philipp Grubauer (G)

Protected Nicklas Backstrom (F) Andre Burakovsky (F) Lars Eller (F) Marcus Johansson (F) Evgeny Kuznetsov (F) Alex Ovechkin (F) Tom Wilson (F) John Carlson (D) Matt Niskanen (D) Dmitry Orlov (D) Braden Holtby (G)

WINNIPEG JETS

Available Marko Dano (F) Quinton Howden (F) Scott Kosmachuk (F) Tomas Kubalik (F) JC Lipon (F) Shawn Matthias (F) Ryan Olsen (F) Anthony Peluso (F) Chris Thorburn (F) Ben Chiarot (D) Toby Enstrom (D) Brenden Kichton (D) Julian Melchiori (D) Paul Postma (D) Brian Strait (D) Mark Stuart (D) Michael Hutchinson (G) Ondrej Pavelec (G)

Protected Joel Armia (F) Andrew Copp (F) Bryan Little (F) Adam Lowry (F) Mathieu Perreault (F) Mark Scheifele (F) Blake Wheeler (F) Dustin Byfuglien (D) Tyler Myers (D) Jacob Trouba (D) Connor Hellebuyck (G)

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Here are NHL expansion draft protected lists for Vegas Golden Knights

The 30 NHL teams not named the Vegas Golden Knights submitted their expansion draft protected lists on Saturday, and on Sunday those lists were released to the public.

Teams had the option of protecting seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie; or eight skaters and one goalie. Players with no-movement clauses had to be protected by teams, unless they agreed to waive them.

As a reminder: The Golden Knights have to draft at least 14 forwards, nie defensemen and three goalies. They get one player from each team. The value of the players they draft needs to be between 60 percent and 100 percent of the upper limit of the salary cap, meaning they need to take on some big contracts; but they’re not allowed to buy out any players that they select until next summer.

Oh, and there will of course be trades made with Vegas, in an attempt to get them to stay off certain exposed players – or with teams that want the Knights to select players and then ship them to them. It’s like money laundering, but with players!

As the Golden Knights passive aggressively put in on Saturday in a statement: “Vegas has indicated that they will give all 30 clubs every opportunity to keep their rosters intact if they’d like. This means that before the Golden Knights claim a player off a team’s unprotected list, McPhee and his staff are willing to negotiate deals so the other clubs do not lose a player they would otherwise like to keep.”

OK, so who is available? Here are the lists!

ANAHEIM DUCKS

Available Spencer Abbott (F) Jared Boll (F) Sam Carrick (F) Patrick Eaves (F) Emerson Etem (F) Ryan Garbutt (F) Max Gortz (F) Nicolas Kerdiles (F) Andre Petersson (F) Logan Shaw (F) Nick Sorensen (F) Nate Thompson (F) Corey Tropp (F) Chris Wagner (F) Nate Guenin (D) Korbinian Holzer (D) Josh Manson (D) Jaycob Megna (D) Jeff Schultz (D) Clayton Stoner (D) Sami Vatanen (D) Jonathan Bernier (G) Jhonas Enroth (G) Ryan Faragher (G) Matt Hackett (G) Dustin Tokarski (G)

Protected Andrew Cogliano (F) Ryan Getzlaf (F) Ryan Kesler (F) Corey Perry (F) Rickard Rakell (F) Jakob Silfverberg (F) Antoine Vermette (F) Kevin Bieksa (D) Cam Fowler (D) Hampus Lindholm (D) John Gibson (G)

ARIZONA COYOTES

Available Alexander Burmistrov (F) Shane Doan (F) Tyler Gaudet (F) Peter Holland (F) Josh Jooris (F) Jamie McGinn (F) Jeremy Morin (F) Mitchell Moroz (F) Chris Mueller (F) Teemu Pulkkinen (F) Brad Richardson (F) Garret Ross (F) Branden Troock (F) Radim Vrbata (F) Joe Whitney (F) Kevin Connauton (D) Jamie McBain (D) Zbynek Michalek (D) Jarred Tinordi (D) Louis Domingue (G)

Protected Nick Cousins (F) Anthony Duclair (F) Jordan Martinook (F) Tobias Rieder (F) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (D) Alex Goligoski (D) Connor Murphy (D) Luke Schenn (D) Chad Johnson (G)

BOSTON BRUINS

Available Matt Beleskey (F) Brian Ferlin (F) Jimmy Hayes (F) Alex Khokhlachev (F) Dominic Moore (F) Tyler Randell (F) Zac Rinaldo (F) Tim Schaller (F) Drew Stafford (F) Linus Arnesson (D) Chris Casto (D) Tommy Cross (D) Alex Grant (D) John-Michael Liles (D) Adam McQuaid (D) Colin Miller (D) Joe Morrow (D) Anton Khudobin (G) Malcolm Subban (G)

Protected David Backes (F) Patrice Bergeron (F) David Krejci (F) Brad Marchand (F) Riley Nash (F) David Pastrnak (F) Ryan Spooner (F) Zdeno Chara (D) Torey Krug (D) Kevan Miller (D) Tuukka Rask (G)

BUFFALO SABRES

Available William Carrier (F) Nicolas Deslauriers (F) Brian Gionta (F) Derek Grant (F) Justin Kea (F) Matt Moulson (F) Cal O’Reilly (F) Cole Schneider (F) Brady Austin (D) Mathew Bodie (D) Zach Bogosian (D) Justin Falk (D) Taylor Fedun (D) Cody Franson (D) Josh Gorges (D) Dmitry Kulikov (D) Anders Nilsson (G) Linus Ullmark (G)

Protected Tyler Ennis (F) Marcus Foligno (F) Zemgus Girgensons (F) Evander Kane (F) Johan Larsson (F) Ryan O’Reilly (F) Kyle Okposo (F) Nathan Beaulieu (D) Jake McCabe (D) Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Robin Lehner (G)

CALGARY FLAMES

Available Brandon Bollig (F) Lance Bouma (F) Troy Brouwer (F) Alex Chiasson (F) Freddie Hamilton (F) Emile Poirier (F) Hunter Shinkaruk (F) Matt Stajan (F) Kris Versteeg (F) Linden Vey (F) Matt Bartkowski (D) Ryan Culkin (D) Deryk Engelland (D) Michael Kostka (D) Brett Kulak (D) Ladislav Smid (D) Michael Stone (D) Dennis Wideman (D) Tyler Wotherspoon (D) Brian Elliott (G) Tom McCollum (G)

Protected Mikael Backlund (F) Sam Bennett (F) Micheal Ferland (F) Michael Frolik (F) Johnny Gaudreau (F) Curtis Lazar (F) Sean Monahan (F) T.J. Brodie (D) Mark Giordano (D) Dougie Hamilton (D) Mike Smith (G)

CAROLINA HURRICANES

Available Bryan Bickell (F) Connor Brickley (F) Patrick Brown (F) Erik Karlsson (F) Danny Kristo (F) Jay McClement (F) Andrew Miller (F) Andrej Nestrasil (F) Joakim Nordstrom (F) Lee Stempniak (F) Brendan Woods (F) Klas Dahlbeck (D) Dennis Robertson (D) Philip Samuelsson (D) Matt Tennyson (D) Daniel Altshuller (G) Eddie Lack (G) Michael Leighton (G) Cam Ward (G)

Protected Phillip Di Giuseppe (F) Elias Lindholm (F) Brock McGinn (F) Victor Rask (F) Jeff Skinner (F) Jordan Staal (F) Teuvo Teravainen (F) Trevor Carrick (D) Justin Faulk (D) Ryan Murphy (D) Scott Darling (G)

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS

Available Kyle Baun (F) Andrew Desjardins (F) Marcus Kruger (F) Pierre-Cedric Labrie (F) Michael Latta (F) Brandon Mashinter (F) Dennis Rasmussen (F) Jordin Tootoo (F) Brian Campbell (D) Dillon Fournier (D) Shawn Lalonde (D) Johnny Oduya (D) Ville Pokka (D) Michal Rozsival (D) Viktor Svedberg (D) Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) Mac Carruth (G) Jeff Glass (G)

Protected Artem Anisimov (F) Ryan Hartman (F) Marian Hossa (F) Tomas Jurco (F) Patrick Kane (F) Richard Panik (F) Jonathan Toews (F) Niklas Hjalmarsson (D) Duncan Keith (D) Brent Seabrook (D) Corey Crawford (G)

COLORADO AVALANCHE

Available Troy Bourke (F) Gabriel Bourque (F) Rene Bourque (F) Joe Colborne (F) Turner Elson (F) Felix Girard (F) Mikhail Grigorenko (F) Samuel Henley (F) John Mitchell (F) Jim O’Brien (F) Brendan Ranford (F) Mike Sislo (F) Carl Soderberg (F) Mark Barberio (D) Mat Clark (D) Eric Gelinas (D) Cody Goloubef (D) Duncan Siemens (D) Fedor Tyutin (D) Patrick Wiercioch (D) Joe Cannata (G) Calvin Pickard (G) Jeremy Smith (G)

Protected Sven Andrighetto (F) Blake Comeau (F) Matt Duchene (F) Rocco Grimaldi (F) Gabriel Landeskog (F) Nathan MacKinnon (F) Matt Nieto (F) Tyson Barrie (D) Erik Johnson (D) Nikita Zadorov (D) Semyon Varlamov (G)

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

Available Josh Anderson (F) Alex Broadhurst (F) Matt Calvert (F) Zac Dalpe (F) Sam Gagner (F) Brett Gallant (F) William Karlsson (F) Lauri Korpikoski (F) Lukas Sedlak (F) T.J. Tynan (F) Daniel Zaar (F) Marc-Andre Bergeron (D) Scott Harrington (D) Jack Johnson (D) Kyle Quincey (D) John Ramage (D) Jaime Sifers (D) Ryan Stanton (D) Oscar Dansk (G) Anton Forsberg (G) Joonas Korpisalo (G)

Protected Cam Atkinson (F) Brandon Dubinsky (F) Nick Foligno (F) Scott Hartnell (F) Boone Jenner (F) Brandon Saad (F) Alexander Wennberg (F) Seth Jones (D) Ryan Murray (D) David Savard (D) Sergei Bobrovsky (G)

DALLAS STARS

Available Adam Cracknell (F) Justin Dowling (F) Cody Eakin (F) Ales Hemsky (F) Jiri Hudler (F) Curtis McKenzie (F) Mark McNeill (F) Travis Morin (F) Patrick Sharp (F) Gemel Smith (F) Matej Stransky (F) Mattias Backman (D) Andrew Bodnarchuk (D) Ludwig Bystrom (D) Nick Ebert (D) Justin Hache (D) Dan Hamhuis (D) Patrik Nemeth (D) Jamie Oleksiak (D) Greg Pateryn (D) Dustin Stevenson (D) Henri Kiviaho (G) Maxime Lagace (G) Kari Lehtonen (G) Antti Niemi (G) Justin Peters (G)

Protected Jamie Benn (F) Radek Faksa (F) Valeri Nichushkin (F) Brett Ritchie (F) Antoine Roussel (F) Tyler Seguin (F) Jason Spezza (F) Stephen Johns (D) John Klingberg (D) Esa Lindell (D) Ben Bishop (G)

DETROIT RED WINGS

Available Louis-Marc Aubry (F) Mitch Callahan (F) Colin Campbell (F) Martin Frk (F) Luke Glendening (F) Darren Helm (F) Drew Miller (F) Tomas Nosek (F) Riley Sheahan (F) Ben Street (F) Eric Tangradi (F) Adam Almquist (D) Jonathan Ericsson (D) Niklas Kronwall (D) Brian Lashoff (D) Dylan McIlrath (D) Xavier Ouellet (D) Ryan Sproul (D) Jared Coreau (G) Petr Mrazek (G) Edward Pasquale (G) Jake Paterson (G)

Protected Justin Abdelkader (F) Andreas Athanasiou (F) Anthony Mantha (F) Frans Nielsen (F) Gustav Nyquist (F) Tomas Tatar (F) Henrik Zetterberg (F) Danny DeKeyser (D) Mike Green (D) Nick Jensen (D) Jimmy Howard (G)

EDMONTON OILERS

Available David Desharnais (F) Justin Fontaine (F) Matt Hendricks (F) Roman Horak (F) Jujhar Khaira (F) Anton Lander (F) Iiro Pakarinen (F) Tyler Pitlick (F) Zach Pochiro (F) Benoit Pouliot (F) Henrik Samuelsson (F) Bogdan Yakimov (F) Mark Fayne (D) Andrew Ference (D) Mark Fraser (D) Eric Gryba (D) David Musil (D) Jordan Oesterle (D) Griffin Reinhart (D) Kris Russell (D) Dillon Simpson (D) Laurent Brossoit (G) Jonas Gustavsson (G)

Protected Leon Draisaitl (F) Jordan Eberle (F) Zack Kassian (F) Mark Letestu (F) Milan Lucic (F) Patrick Maroon (F) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (F) Oscar Klefbom (D) Adam Larsson (D) Andrej Sekera (D) Cam Talbot (G)

FLORIDA PANTHERS

Available Graham Black (F) Tim Bozon (F) Jaromir Jagr (F) Jussi Jokinen (F) Derek MacKenzie (F) Jonathan Marchessault (F) Colton Sceviour (F) Michael Sgarbossa (F) Reilly Smith (F) Brody Sutter (F) Paul Thompson (F) Shawn Thornton (F) Thomas Vanek (F) Jason Demers (D) Jakub Kindl (D) Brent Regner (D) Reece Scarlett (D) MacKenzie Weegar (D) Reto Berra (G) Sam Brittain (G) Roberto Luongo (G)

Protected Aleksander Barkov (F) Nick Bjugstad (F) Jonathan Huberdeau (F) Vincent Trocheck (F) Aaron Ekblad (D) Alex Petrovic (D) Mark Pysyk (D) Keith Yandle (D) James Reimer (G)

LOS ANGELES KINGS

Available Andy Andreoff (F) Justin Auger (F) Dustin Brown (F) Kyle Clifford (F) Andrew Crescenzi (F) Nic Dowd (F) Marian Gaborik (F) Jarome Iginla (F) Trevor Lewis (F) Michael Mersch (F) Jordan Nolan (F) Teddy Purcell (F) Devin Setoguchi (F) Nick Shore (F) Matt Greene (D) Vincent Loverde (D) Brayden McNabb (D) Cameron Schilling (D) Rob Scuderi (D) Zach Trotman (D) Jack Campbell (G) Jeff Zatkoff (G)

Protected Jeff Carter (F) Anze Kopitar (F) Tanner Pearson (F) Tyler Toffoli (F) Drew Doughty (D) Derek Forbort (D) Alec Martinez (D) Jake Muzzin (D) Jonathan Quick (G)

MINNESOTA WILD

Available Brady Brassart (F) Patrick Cannone (F) Ryan Carter (F) Kurtis Gabriel (F) Martin Hanzal (F) Erik Haula (F) Zack Mitchell (F) Jordan Schroeder (F) Eric Staal (F) Chris Stewart (F) Ryan White (F) Victor Bartley (D) Matt Dumba (D) Christian Folin (D) Guillaume Gelinas (D) Alexander Gudbranson (D) Gustav Olofsson (D) Nate Prosser (D) Marco Scandella (D) Mike Weber (D) Johan Gustafsson (G) Darcy Kuemper (G) Alex Stalock (G)

Protected Charlie Coyle (F) Mikael Granlund (F) Mikko Koivu (F) Nino Niederreiter (F) Zach Parise (F) Jason Pominville (F) Jason Zucker (F) Jonas Brodin (D) Jared Spurgeon (D) Ryan Suter (D) Devan Dubnyk (G)

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Available Daniel Carr (F) Connor Crisp (F) Jacob De La Rose (F) Bobby Farnham (F) Brian Flynn (F) Max Friberg (F) Charles Hudon (F) Dwight King (F) Stefan Matteau (F) Torrey Mitchell (F) Joonas Nattinen (F) Steve Ott (F) Tomas Plekanec (F) Alexander Radulov (F) Chris Terry (F) Brandon Davidson (D) Alexei Emelin (D) Keegan Lowe (D) Andrei Markov (D) Nikita Nesterov (D) Zach Redmond (D) Dalton Thrower (D) Al Montoya (G)

Protected Paul Byron (F) Phillip Danault (F) Jonathan Drouin (F) Alex Galchenyuk (F) Brendan Gallagher (F) Max Pacioretty (F) Andrew Shaw (F) Jordie Benn (D) Jeff Petry (D) Shea Weber (D) Carey Price (G)

NASHVILLE PREDATORS

Available Pontus Aberg (F) Cody Bass (F) Vernon Fiddler (F) Mike Fisher (F) Cody McLeod (F) James Neal (F) PA Parenteau (F) Adam Payerl (F) Mike Ribeiro (F) Miikka Salomaki (F) Colton Sissons (F) Craig Smith (F) Trevor Smith (F) Austin Watson (F) Colin Wilson (F) Harry Zolnierczyk (F) Taylor Aronson (D) Anthony Bitetto (D) Stefan Elliott (D) Petter Granberg (D) Brad Hunt (D) Matt Irwin (D) Andrew O’Brien (D) Adam Pardy (D) Jaynen Rissling (D) Scott Valentine (D) Yannick Weber (D) Marek Mazanec (G)

Protected Viktor Arvidsson (F) Filip Forsberg (F) Calle Jarnkrok (F) Ryan Johansen (F) Mattias Ekholm (D) Ryan Ellis (D) Roman Josi (D) P.K. Subban (D) Pekka Rinne (G)

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

Available Beau Bennett (F) Michael Cammalleri (F) Carter Camper (F) Luke Gazdic (F) Shane Harper (F) Jacob Josefson (F) Ivan Khomutov (F) Stefan Noesen (F) Marc Savard (F) Devante Smith-Pelly (F) Petr Straka (F) Mattias Tedenby (F) Ben Thomson (F) David Wohlberg (F) Seth Helgeson (D) Viktor Loov (D) Ben Lovejoy (D) Andrew MacWilliam (D) Jon Merrill (D) Dalton Prout (D) Karl Stollery (D) Alexander Urbom (D) Keith Kinkaid (G) Scott Wedgewood (G)

Protected Taylor Hall (F) Adam Henrique (F) Kyle Palmieri (F) Travis Zajac (F) Andy Greene (D) John Moore (D) Mirco Mueller (D) Damon Severson (D) Cory Schneider (G)

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Available Josh Bailey (F) Steve Bernier (F) Eric Boulton (F) Jason Chimera (F) Casey Cizikas (F) Cal Clutterbuck (F) Stephen Gionta (F) Ben Holmstrom (F) Bracken Kearns (F) Nikolay Kulemin (F) Brock Nelson (F) Shane Prince (F) Alan Quine (F) Ryan Strome (F) Johan Sundstrom (F) Calvin de Haan (D) Matthew Finn (D) Jesse Graham (D) Thomas Hickey (D) Loic Leduc (D) Scott Mayfield (D) Dennis Seidenberg (D) Jean-Francois Berube (G) Christopher Gibson (G) Jaroslav Halak (G)

Protected Andrew Ladd (F) Anders Lee (F) John Tavares (F) Johnny Boychuk (D) Travis Hamonic (D) Nick Leddy (D) Adam Pelech (D) Ryan Pulock (D) Thomas Greiss (G)

NEW YORK RANGERS

Available Taylor Beck (F) Chris Brown (F) Daniel Catenacci (F) Jesper Fast (F) Tanner Glass (F) Michael Grabner (F) Marek Hrivik (F) Nicklas Jensen (F) Carl Klingberg (F) Oscar Lindberg (F) Brandon Pirri (F) Matt Puempel (F) Adam Clendening (D) Tommy Hughes (D) Steven Kampfer (D) Kevin Klein (D) Michael Paliotta (D) Brendan Smith (D) Chris Summers (D) Magnus Hellberg (G) Antti Raanta (G) Mackenzie Skapski (G)

Protected Kevin Hayes (F) Chris Kreider (F) J.T. Miller (F) Rick Nash (F) Derek Stepan (F) Mika Zibanejad (F) Mats Zuccarello (F) Nick Holden (D) Ryan McDonagh (D) Marc Staal (D) Henrik Lundqvist (G)

OTTAWA SENATORS

Available Casey Bailey (F) Mike Blunden (F) Alexandre Burrows (F) Stephane Da Costa (F) Christopher DiDomenico (F) Nikita Filatov (F) Chris Kelly (F) Clarke MacArthur (F) Max McCormick (F) Chris Neil (F) Tom Pyatt (F) Ryan Rupert (F) Bobby Ryan (F) Viktor Stalberg (F) Phil Varone (F) Tommy Wingels (F) Mark Borowiecki (D) Fredrik Claesson (D) Brandon Gormley (D) Jyrki Jokipakka (D) Marc Methot (D) Patrick Sieloff (D) Chris Wideman (D) Mikael Wikstrand (D) Mike Condon (G) Chris Driedger (G) Andrew Hammond (G)

Protected Derick Brassard (F) Ryan Dzingel (F) Mike Hoffman (F) Jean-Gabriel Pageau (F) Zack Smith (F) Mark Stone (F) Kyle Turris (F) Cody Ceci (D) Erik Karlsson (D) Dion Phaneuf (D) Craig Anderson (G)

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

Available Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (F) Greg Carey (F) Chris Conner (F) Boyd Gordon (F) Taylor Leier (F) Colin McDonald (F) Andy Miele (F) Michael Raffl (F) Matt Read (F) Chris VandeVelde (F) Jordan Weal (F) Dale Weise (F) Eric Wellwood (F) Mark Alt (D) TJ Brennan (D) Michael Del Zotto (D) Andrew MacDonald (D) Will O’Neill (D) Jesper Pettersson (D) Nick Schultz (D) Steve Mason (G) Michal Neuvirth (G)

Protected Sean Couturier (F) Valtteri Filppula (F) Claude Giroux (F) Scott Laughton (F) Brayden Schenn (F) Wayne Simmonds (F) Jakub Voracek (F) Shayne Gostisbehere (D) Radko Gudas (D) Brandon Manning (D) Anthony Stolarz (G)

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS

Available Josh Archibald (F) Nick Bonino (F) Matt Cullen (F) Jean-Sebastien Dea (F) Carl Hagelin (F) Tom Kuhnhackl (F) Chris Kunitz (F) Kevin Porter (F) Bryan Rust (F) Tom Sestito (F) Oskar Sundqvist (F) Dominik Uher (F) Garrett Wilson (F) Scott Wilson (F) Ian Cole (D) Frank Corrado (D) Trevor Daley (D) Tim Erixon (D) Cameron Gaunce (D) Ron Hainsey (D) Stuart Percy (D) Derrick Pouliot (D) Chad Ruhwedel (D) Mark Streit (D) David Warsofsky (D) Marc-Andre Fleury (G)

Protected Sidney Crosby (F) Patric Hornqvist (F) Phil Kessel (F) Evgeni Malkin (F) Brian Dumoulin (D) Kris Letang (D) Olli Maatta (D) Justin Schultz (D) Matt Murray (G)

SAN JOSE SHARKS

Available Mikkel Boedker (F) Barclay Goodrow (F) Micheal Haley (F) Patrick Marleau (F) Buddy Robinson (F) Zack Stortini (F) Joe Thornton (F) Joel Ward (F) Dylan DeMelo (D) Brenden Dillon (D) Dan Kelly (D) Paul Martin (D) David Schlemko (D) Aaron Dell (G) Troy Grosenick (G) Harri Sateri (G)

Protected Ryan Carpenter (F) Logan Couture (F) Jannik Hansen (F) Tomas Hertl (F) Melker Karlsson (F) Joe Pavelski (F) Chris Tierney (F) Justin Braun (D) Brent Burns (D) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (D) Martin Jones (G)

ST. LOUIS BLUES

Available Kenny Agostino (F) Andrew Agozzino (F) Kyle Brodziak (F) Jordan Caron (F) Jacob Doty (F) Landon Ferraro (F) Alex Friesen (F) Evgeny Grachev (F) Dmitrij Jaskin (F) Jori Lehtera (F) Brad Malone (F) Magnus Paajarvi (F) David Perron (F) Ty Rattie (F) Scottie Upshall (F) Nail Yakupov (F) Robert Bortuzzo (D) Chris Butler (D) Morgan Ellis (D) Carl Gunnarsson (D) Jani Hakanpaa (D) Petteri Lindbohm (D) Reid McNeill (D) Jordan Binnington (G) Carter Hutton (G)

Protected Patrik Berglund (F) Ryan Reaves (F) Jaden Schwartz (F) Vladimir Sobotka (F) Paul Stastny (F) Alexander Steen (F) Vladimir Tarasenko (F) Jay Bouwmeester (D) Joel Edmundson (D) Alex Pietrangelo (D) Jake Allen (G)

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

Available Carter Ashton (F) Michael Bournival (F) J.T. Brown (F) Cory Conacher (F) Erik Condra (F) Gabriel Dumont (F) Stefan Fournier (F) Byron Froese (F) Yanni Gourde (F) Mike Halmo (F) Henri Ikonen (F) Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (F) Tye McGinn (F) Greg McKegg (F) Cedric Paquette (F) Tanner Richard (F) Joel Vermin (F) Dylan Blujus (D) Jake Dotchin (D) Jason Garrison (D) Slater Koekkoek (D) Jonathan Racine (D) Andrej Sustr (D) Matt Taormina (D) Luke Witkowski (D) Peter Budaj (G) Kristers Gudlevskis (G) Jaroslav Janus (G) Mike McKenna (G)

Protected Ryan Callahan (F) Tyler Johnson (F) Alex Killorn (F) Nikita Kucherov (F) Vladislav Namestnikov (F) Ondrej Palat (F) Steven Stamkos (F) Braydon Coburn (D) Victor Hedman (D) Anton Stralman (D) Andrei Vasilevskiy (G)

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

Available Brian Boyle (F) Eric Fehr (F) Colin Greening (F) Seth Griffith (F) Teemu Hartikainen (F) Brooks Laich (F) Brendan Leipsic (F) Joffrey Lupul (F) Milan Michalek (F) Kerby Rychel (F) Ben Smith (F) Andrew Campbell (D) Matt Hunwick (D) Alexey Marchenko (D) Martin Marincin (D) Steve Oleksy (D) Roman Polak (D) Antoine Bibeau (G) Curtis McElhinney (G) Garret Sparks (G)

Protected Tyler Bozak (F) Connor Brown (F) Nazem Kadri (F) Leo Komarov (F) Josh Leivo (F) Matt Martin (F) James van Riemsdyk (F) Connor Carrick (D) Jake Gardiner (D) Morgan Rielly (D) Frederik Andersen (G)

VANCOUVER CANUCKS

Available Reid Boucher (F) Michael Chaput (F) Joseph Cramarossa (F) Derek Dorsett (F) Brendan Gaunce (F) Alexandre Grenier (F) Jayson Megna (F) Borna Rendulic (F) Anton Rodin (F) Drew Shore (F) Jack Skille (F) Michael Zalewski (F) Alex Biega (D) Philip Larsen (D) Tom Nilsson (D) Andrey Pedan (D) Luca Sbisa (D) Richard Bachman (G) Ryan Miller (G)

Protected Sven Baertschi (F) Loui Eriksson (F) Markus Granlund (F) Bo Horvat (F) Daniel Sedin (F) Henrik Sedin (F) Brandon Sutter (F) Alexander Edler (D) Erik Gudbranson (D) Christopher Tanev (D) Jacob Markstrom (G)

WASHINGTON CAPITALS

Available Jay Beagle (F) Chris Bourque (F) Paul Carey (F) Brett Connolly (F) Stanislav Galiev (F) Tyler Graovac (F) Garrett Mitchell (F) Liam O’Brien (F) T.J. Oshie (F) Zach Sill (F) Chandler Stephenson (F) Christian Thomas (F) Nathan Walker (F) Justin Williams (F) Daniel Winnik (F) Karl Alzner (D) Taylor Chorney (D) Cody Corbett (D) Darren Dietz (D) Christian Djoos (D) Tom Gilbert (D) Aaron Ness (D) Brooks Orpik (D) Nate Schmidt (D) Kevin Shattenkirk (D) Pheonix Copley (G) Philipp Grubauer (G)

Protected Nicklas Backstrom (F) Andre Burakovsky (F) Lars Eller (F) Marcus Johansson (F) Evgeny Kuznetsov (F) Alex Ovechkin (F) Tom Wilson (F) John Carlson (D) Matt Niskanen (D) Dmitry Orlov (D) Braden Holtby (G)

WINNIPEG JETS

Available Marko Dano (F) Quinton Howden (F) Scott Kosmachuk (F) Tomas Kubalik (F) JC Lipon (F) Shawn Matthias (F) Ryan Olsen (F) Anthony Peluso (F) Chris Thorburn (F) Ben Chiarot (D) Toby Enstrom (D) Brenden Kichton (D) Julian Melchiori (D) Paul Postma (D) Brian Strait (D) Mark Stuart (D) Michael Hutchinson (G) Ondrej Pavelec (G)

Protected Joel Armia (F) Andrew Copp (F) Bryan Little (F) Adam Lowry (F) Mathieu Perreault (F) Mark Scheifele (F) Blake Wheeler (F) Dustin Byfuglien (D) Tyler Myers (D) Jacob Trouba (D) Connor Hellebuyck (G)

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Here are NHL expansion draft protected lists for Vegas Golden Knights

The 30 NHL teams not named the Vegas Golden Knights submitted their expansion draft protected lists on Saturday, and on Sunday those lists were released to the public.

Teams had the option of protecting seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie; or eight skaters and one goalie. Players with no-movement clauses had to be protected by teams, unless they agreed to waive them.

As a reminder: The Golden Knights have to draft at least 14 forwards, nie defensemen and three goalies. They get one player from each team. The value of the players they draft needs to be between 60 percent and 100 percent of the upper limit of the salary cap, meaning they need to take on some big contracts; but they’re not allowed to buy out any players that they select until next summer.

Oh, and there will of course be trades made with Vegas, in an attempt to get them to stay off certain exposed players – or with teams that want the Knights to select players and then ship them to them. It’s like money laundering, but with players!

As the Golden Knights passive aggressively put in on Saturday in a statement: “Vegas has indicated that they will give all 30 clubs every opportunity to keep their rosters intact if they’d like. This means that before the Golden Knights claim a player off a team’s unprotected list, McPhee and his staff are willing to negotiate deals so the other clubs do not lose a player they would otherwise like to keep.”

OK, so who is available? Here are the lists!

ANAHEIM DUCKS

Available Spencer Abbott (F) Jared Boll (F) Sam Carrick (F) Patrick Eaves (F) Emerson Etem (F) Ryan Garbutt (F) Max Gortz (F) Nicolas Kerdiles (F) Andre Petersson (F) Logan Shaw (F) Nick Sorensen (F) Nate Thompson (F) Corey Tropp (F) Chris Wagner (F) Nate Guenin (D) Korbinian Holzer (D) Josh Manson (D) Jaycob Megna (D) Jeff Schultz (D) Clayton Stoner (D) Sami Vatanen (D) Jonathan Bernier (G) Jhonas Enroth (G) Ryan Faragher (G) Matt Hackett (G) Dustin Tokarski (G)

Protected Andrew Cogliano (F) Ryan Getzlaf (F) Ryan Kesler (F) Corey Perry (F) Rickard Rakell (F) Jakob Silfverberg (F) Antoine Vermette (F) Kevin Bieksa (D) Cam Fowler (D) Hampus Lindholm (D) John Gibson (G)

ARIZONA COYOTES

Available Alexander Burmistrov (F) Shane Doan (F) Tyler Gaudet (F) Peter Holland (F) Josh Jooris (F) Jamie McGinn (F) Jeremy Morin (F) Mitchell Moroz (F) Chris Mueller (F) Teemu Pulkkinen (F) Brad Richardson (F) Garret Ross (F) Branden Troock (F) Radim Vrbata (F) Joe Whitney (F) Kevin Connauton (D) Jamie McBain (D) Zbynek Michalek (D) Jarred Tinordi (D) Louis Domingue (G)

Protected Nick Cousins (F) Anthony Duclair (F) Jordan Martinook (F) Tobias Rieder (F) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (D) Alex Goligoski (D) Connor Murphy (D) Luke Schenn (D) Chad Johnson (G)

BOSTON BRUINS

Available Matt Beleskey (F) Brian Ferlin (F) Jimmy Hayes (F) Alex Khokhlachev (F) Dominic Moore (F) Tyler Randell (F) Zac Rinaldo (F) Tim Schaller (F) Drew Stafford (F) Linus Arnesson (D) Chris Casto (D) Tommy Cross (D) Alex Grant (D) John-Michael Liles (D) Adam McQuaid (D) Colin Miller (D) Joe Morrow (D) Anton Khudobin (G) Malcolm Subban (G)

Protected David Backes (F) Patrice Bergeron (F) David Krejci (F) Brad Marchand (F) Riley Nash (F) David Pastrnak (F) Ryan Spooner (F) Zdeno Chara (D) Torey Krug (D) Kevan Miller (D) Tuukka Rask (G)

BUFFALO SABRES

Available William Carrier (F) Nicolas Deslauriers (F) Brian Gionta (F) Derek Grant (F) Justin Kea (F) Matt Moulson (F) Cal O’Reilly (F) Cole Schneider (F) Brady Austin (D) Mathew Bodie (D) Zach Bogosian (D) Justin Falk (D) Taylor Fedun (D) Cody Franson (D) Josh Gorges (D) Dmitry Kulikov (D) Anders Nilsson (G) Linus Ullmark (G)

Protected Tyler Ennis (F) Marcus Foligno (F) Zemgus Girgensons (F) Evander Kane (F) Johan Larsson (F) Ryan O’Reilly (F) Kyle Okposo (F) Nathan Beaulieu (D) Jake McCabe (D) Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Robin Lehner (G)

CALGARY FLAMES

Available Brandon Bollig (F) Lance Bouma (F) Troy Brouwer (F) Alex Chiasson (F) Freddie Hamilton (F) Emile Poirier (F) Hunter Shinkaruk (F) Matt Stajan (F) Kris Versteeg (F) Linden Vey (F) Matt Bartkowski (D) Ryan Culkin (D) Deryk Engelland (D) Michael Kostka (D) Brett Kulak (D) Ladislav Smid (D) Michael Stone (D) Dennis Wideman (D) Tyler Wotherspoon (D) Brian Elliott (G) Tom McCollum (G)

Protected Mikael Backlund (F) Sam Bennett (F) Micheal Ferland (F) Michael Frolik (F) Johnny Gaudreau (F) Curtis Lazar (F) Sean Monahan (F) T.J. Brodie (D) Mark Giordano (D) Dougie Hamilton (D) Mike Smith (G)

CAROLINA HURRICANES

Available Bryan Bickell (F) Connor Brickley (F) Patrick Brown (F) Erik Karlsson (F) Danny Kristo (F) Jay McClement (F) Andrew Miller (F) Andrej Nestrasil (F) Joakim Nordstrom (F) Lee Stempniak (F) Brendan Woods (F) Klas Dahlbeck (D) Dennis Robertson (D) Philip Samuelsson (D) Matt Tennyson (D) Daniel Altshuller (G) Eddie Lack (G) Michael Leighton (G) Cam Ward (G)

Protected Phillip Di Giuseppe (F) Elias Lindholm (F) Brock McGinn (F) Victor Rask (F) Jeff Skinner (F) Jordan Staal (F) Teuvo Teravainen (F) Trevor Carrick (D) Justin Faulk (D) Ryan Murphy (D) Scott Darling (G)

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS

Available Kyle Baun (F) Andrew Desjardins (F) Marcus Kruger (F) Pierre-Cedric Labrie (F) Michael Latta (F) Brandon Mashinter (F) Dennis Rasmussen (F) Jordin Tootoo (F) Brian Campbell (D) Dillon Fournier (D) Shawn Lalonde (D) Johnny Oduya (D) Ville Pokka (D) Michal Rozsival (D) Viktor Svedberg (D) Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) Mac Carruth (G) Jeff Glass (G)

Protected Artem Anisimov (F) Ryan Hartman (F) Marian Hossa (F) Tomas Jurco (F) Patrick Kane (F) Richard Panik (F) Jonathan Toews (F) Niklas Hjalmarsson (D) Duncan Keith (D) Brent Seabrook (D) Corey Crawford (G)

COLORADO AVALANCHE

Available Troy Bourke (F) Gabriel Bourque (F) Rene Bourque (F) Joe Colborne (F) Turner Elson (F) Felix Girard (F) Mikhail Grigorenko (F) Samuel Henley (F) John Mitchell (F) Jim O’Brien (F) Brendan Ranford (F) Mike Sislo (F) Carl Soderberg (F) Mark Barberio (D) Mat Clark (D) Eric Gelinas (D) Cody Goloubef (D) Duncan Siemens (D) Fedor Tyutin (D) Patrick Wiercioch (D) Joe Cannata (G) Calvin Pickard (G) Jeremy Smith (G)

Protected Sven Andrighetto (F) Blake Comeau (F) Matt Duchene (F) Rocco Grimaldi (F) Gabriel Landeskog (F) Nathan MacKinnon (F) Matt Nieto (F) Tyson Barrie (D) Erik Johnson (D) Nikita Zadorov (D) Semyon Varlamov (G)

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

Available Josh Anderson (F) Alex Broadhurst (F) Matt Calvert (F) Zac Dalpe (F) Sam Gagner (F) Brett Gallant (F) William Karlsson (F) Lauri Korpikoski (F) Lukas Sedlak (F) T.J. Tynan (F) Daniel Zaar (F) Marc-Andre Bergeron (D) Scott Harrington (D) Jack Johnson (D) Kyle Quincey (D) John Ramage (D) Jaime Sifers (D) Ryan Stanton (D) Oscar Dansk (G) Anton Forsberg (G) Joonas Korpisalo (G)

Protected Cam Atkinson (F) Brandon Dubinsky (F) Nick Foligno (F) Scott Hartnell (F) Boone Jenner (F) Brandon Saad (F) Alexander Wennberg (F) Seth Jones (D) Ryan Murray (D) David Savard (D) Sergei Bobrovsky (G)

DALLAS STARS

Available Adam Cracknell (F) Justin Dowling (F) Cody Eakin (F) Ales Hemsky (F) Jiri Hudler (F) Curtis McKenzie (F) Mark McNeill (F) Travis Morin (F) Patrick Sharp (F) Gemel Smith (F) Matej Stransky (F) Mattias Backman (D) Andrew Bodnarchuk (D) Ludwig Bystrom (D) Nick Ebert (D) Justin Hache (D) Dan Hamhuis (D) Patrik Nemeth (D) Jamie Oleksiak (D) Greg Pateryn (D) Dustin Stevenson (D) Henri Kiviaho (G) Maxime Lagace (G) Kari Lehtonen (G) Antti Niemi (G) Justin Peters (G)

Protected Jamie Benn (F) Radek Faksa (F) Valeri Nichushkin (F) Brett Ritchie (F) Antoine Roussel (F) Tyler Seguin (F) Jason Spezza (F) Stephen Johns (D) John Klingberg (D) Esa Lindell (D) Ben Bishop (G)

DETROIT RED WINGS

Available Louis-Marc Aubry (F) Mitch Callahan (F) Colin Campbell (F) Martin Frk (F) Luke Glendening (F) Darren Helm (F) Drew Miller (F) Tomas Nosek (F) Riley Sheahan (F) Ben Street (F) Eric Tangradi (F) Adam Almquist (D) Jonathan Ericsson (D) Niklas Kronwall (D) Brian Lashoff (D) Dylan McIlrath (D) Xavier Ouellet (D) Ryan Sproul (D) Jared Coreau (G) Petr Mrazek (G) Edward Pasquale (G) Jake Paterson (G)

Protected Justin Abdelkader (F) Andreas Athanasiou (F) Anthony Mantha (F) Frans Nielsen (F) Gustav Nyquist (F) Tomas Tatar (F) Henrik Zetterberg (F) Danny DeKeyser (D) Mike Green (D) Nick Jensen (D) Jimmy Howard (G)

EDMONTON OILERS

Available David Desharnais (F) Justin Fontaine (F) Matt Hendricks (F) Roman Horak (F) Jujhar Khaira (F) Anton Lander (F) Iiro Pakarinen (F) Tyler Pitlick (F) Zach Pochiro (F) Benoit Pouliot (F) Henrik Samuelsson (F) Bogdan Yakimov (F) Mark Fayne (D) Andrew Ference (D) Mark Fraser (D) Eric Gryba (D) David Musil (D) Jordan Oesterle (D) Griffin Reinhart (D) Kris Russell (D) Dillon Simpson (D) Laurent Brossoit (G) Jonas Gustavsson (G)

Protected Leon Draisaitl (F) Jordan Eberle (F) Zack Kassian (F) Mark Letestu (F) Milan Lucic (F) Patrick Maroon (F) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (F) Oscar Klefbom (D) Adam Larsson (D) Andrej Sekera (D) Cam Talbot (G)

FLORIDA PANTHERS

Available Graham Black (F) Tim Bozon (F) Jaromir Jagr (F) Jussi Jokinen (F) Derek MacKenzie (F) Jonathan Marchessault (F) Colton Sceviour (F) Michael Sgarbossa (F) Reilly Smith (F) Brody Sutter (F) Paul Thompson (F) Shawn Thornton (F) Thomas Vanek (F) Jason Demers (D) Jakub Kindl (D) Brent Regner (D) Reece Scarlett (D) MacKenzie Weegar (D) Reto Berra (G) Sam Brittain (G) Roberto Luongo (G)

Protected Aleksander Barkov (F) Nick Bjugstad (F) Jonathan Huberdeau (F) Vincent Trocheck (F) Aaron Ekblad (D) Alex Petrovic (D) Mark Pysyk (D) Keith Yandle (D) James Reimer (G)

LOS ANGELES KINGS

Available Andy Andreoff (F) Justin Auger (F) Dustin Brown (F) Kyle Clifford (F) Andrew Crescenzi (F) Nic Dowd (F) Marian Gaborik (F) Jarome Iginla (F) Trevor Lewis (F) Michael Mersch (F) Jordan Nolan (F) Teddy Purcell (F) Devin Setoguchi (F) Nick Shore (F) Matt Greene (D) Vincent Loverde (D) Brayden McNabb (D) Cameron Schilling (D) Rob Scuderi (D) Zach Trotman (D) Jack Campbell (G) Jeff Zatkoff (G)

Protected Jeff Carter (F) Anze Kopitar (F) Tanner Pearson (F) Tyler Toffoli (F) Drew Doughty (D) Derek Forbort (D) Alec Martinez (D) Jake Muzzin (D) Jonathan Quick (G)

MINNESOTA WILD

Available Brady Brassart (F) Patrick Cannone (F) Ryan Carter (F) Kurtis Gabriel (F) Martin Hanzal (F) Erik Haula (F) Zack Mitchell (F) Jordan Schroeder (F) Eric Staal (F) Chris Stewart (F) Ryan White (F) Victor Bartley (D) Matt Dumba (D) Christian Folin (D) Guillaume Gelinas (D) Alexander Gudbranson (D) Gustav Olofsson (D) Nate Prosser (D) Marco Scandella (D) Mike Weber (D) Johan Gustafsson (G) Darcy Kuemper (G) Alex Stalock (G)

Protected Charlie Coyle (F) Mikael Granlund (F) Mikko Koivu (F) Nino Niederreiter (F) Zach Parise (F) Jason Pominville (F) Jason Zucker (F) Jonas Brodin (D) Jared Spurgeon (D) Ryan Suter (D) Devan Dubnyk (G)

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Available Daniel Carr (F) Connor Crisp (F) Jacob De La Rose (F) Bobby Farnham (F) Brian Flynn (F) Max Friberg (F) Charles Hudon (F) Dwight King (F) Stefan Matteau (F) Torrey Mitchell (F) Joonas Nattinen (F) Steve Ott (F) Tomas Plekanec (F) Alexander Radulov (F) Chris Terry (F) Brandon Davidson (D) Alexei Emelin (D) Keegan Lowe (D) Andrei Markov (D) Nikita Nesterov (D) Zach Redmond (D) Dalton Thrower (D) Al Montoya (G)

Protected Paul Byron (F) Phillip Danault (F) Jonathan Drouin (F) Alex Galchenyuk (F) Brendan Gallagher (F) Max Pacioretty (F) Andrew Shaw (F) Jordie Benn (D) Jeff Petry (D) Shea Weber (D) Carey Price (G)

NASHVILLE PREDATORS

Available Pontus Aberg (F) Cody Bass (F) Vernon Fiddler (F) Mike Fisher (F) Cody McLeod (F) James Neal (F) PA Parenteau (F) Adam Payerl (F) Mike Ribeiro (F) Miikka Salomaki (F) Colton Sissons (F) Craig Smith (F) Trevor Smith (F) Austin Watson (F) Colin Wilson (F) Harry Zolnierczyk (F) Taylor Aronson (D) Anthony Bitetto (D) Stefan Elliott (D) Petter Granberg (D) Brad Hunt (D) Matt Irwin (D) Andrew O’Brien (D) Adam Pardy (D) Jaynen Rissling (D) Scott Valentine (D) Yannick Weber (D) Marek Mazanec (G)

Protected Viktor Arvidsson (F) Filip Forsberg (F) Calle Jarnkrok (F) Ryan Johansen (F) Mattias Ekholm (D) Ryan Ellis (D) Roman Josi (D) P.K. Subban (D) Pekka Rinne (G)

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

Available Beau Bennett (F) Michael Cammalleri (F) Carter Camper (F) Luke Gazdic (F) Shane Harper (F) Jacob Josefson (F) Ivan Khomutov (F) Stefan Noesen (F) Marc Savard (F) Devante Smith-Pelly (F) Petr Straka (F) Mattias Tedenby (F) Ben Thomson (F) David Wohlberg (F) Seth Helgeson (D) Viktor Loov (D) Ben Lovejoy (D) Andrew MacWilliam (D) Jon Merrill (D) Dalton Prout (D) Karl Stollery (D) Alexander Urbom (D) Keith Kinkaid (G) Scott Wedgewood (G)

Protected Taylor Hall (F) Adam Henrique (F) Kyle Palmieri (F) Travis Zajac (F) Andy Greene (D) John Moore (D) Mirco Mueller (D) Damon Severson (D) Cory Schneider (G)

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Available Josh Bailey (F) Steve Bernier (F) Eric Boulton (F) Jason Chimera (F) Casey Cizikas (F) Cal Clutterbuck (F) Stephen Gionta (F) Ben Holmstrom (F) Bracken Kearns (F) Nikolay Kulemin (F) Brock Nelson (F) Shane Prince (F) Alan Quine (F) Ryan Strome (F) Johan Sundstrom (F) Calvin de Haan (D) Matthew Finn (D) Jesse Graham (D) Thomas Hickey (D) Loic Leduc (D) Scott Mayfield (D) Dennis Seidenberg (D) Jean-Francois Berube (G) Christopher Gibson (G) Jaroslav Halak (G)

Protected Andrew Ladd (F) Anders Lee (F) John Tavares (F) Johnny Boychuk (D) Travis Hamonic (D) Nick Leddy (D) Adam Pelech (D) Ryan Pulock (D) Thomas Greiss (G)

NEW YORK RANGERS

Available Taylor Beck (F) Chris Brown (F) Daniel Catenacci (F) Jesper Fast (F) Tanner Glass (F) Michael Grabner (F) Marek Hrivik (F) Nicklas Jensen (F) Carl Klingberg (F) Oscar Lindberg (F) Brandon Pirri (F) Matt Puempel (F) Adam Clendening (D) Tommy Hughes (D) Steven Kampfer (D) Kevin Klein (D) Michael Paliotta (D) Brendan Smith (D) Chris Summers (D) Magnus Hellberg (G) Antti Raanta (G) Mackenzie Skapski (G)

Protected Kevin Hayes (F) Chris Kreider (F) J.T. Miller (F) Rick Nash (F) Derek Stepan (F) Mika Zibanejad (F) Mats Zuccarello (F) Nick Holden (D) Ryan McDonagh (D) Marc Staal (D) Henrik Lundqvist (G)

OTTAWA SENATORS

Available Casey Bailey (F) Mike Blunden (F) Alexandre Burrows (F) Stephane Da Costa (F) Christopher DiDomenico (F) Nikita Filatov (F) Chris Kelly (F) Clarke MacArthur (F) Max McCormick (F) Chris Neil (F) Tom Pyatt (F) Ryan Rupert (F) Bobby Ryan (F) Viktor Stalberg (F) Phil Varone (F) Tommy Wingels (F) Mark Borowiecki (D) Fredrik Claesson (D) Brandon Gormley (D) Jyrki Jokipakka (D) Marc Methot (D) Patrick Sieloff (D) Chris Wideman (D) Mikael Wikstrand (D) Mike Condon (G) Chris Driedger (G) Andrew Hammond (G)

Protected Derick Brassard (F) Ryan Dzingel (F) Mike Hoffman (F) Jean-Gabriel Pageau (F) Zack Smith (F) Mark Stone (F) Kyle Turris (F) Cody Ceci (D) Erik Karlsson (D) Dion Phaneuf (D) Craig Anderson (G)

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

Available Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (F) Greg Carey (F) Chris Conner (F) Boyd Gordon (F) Taylor Leier (F) Colin McDonald (F) Andy Miele (F) Michael Raffl (F) Matt Read (F) Chris VandeVelde (F) Jordan Weal (F) Dale Weise (F) Eric Wellwood (F) Mark Alt (D) TJ Brennan (D) Michael Del Zotto (D) Andrew MacDonald (D) Will O’Neill (D) Jesper Pettersson (D) Nick Schultz (D) Steve Mason (G) Michal Neuvirth (G)

Protected Sean Couturier (F) Valtteri Filppula (F) Claude Giroux (F) Scott Laughton (F) Brayden Schenn (F) Wayne Simmonds (F) Jakub Voracek (F) Shayne Gostisbehere (D) Radko Gudas (D) Brandon Manning (D) Anthony Stolarz (G)

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS

Available Josh Archibald (F) Nick Bonino (F) Matt Cullen (F) Jean-Sebastien Dea (F) Carl Hagelin (F) Tom Kuhnhackl (F) Chris Kunitz (F) Kevin Porter (F) Bryan Rust (F) Tom Sestito (F) Oskar Sundqvist (F) Dominik Uher (F) Garrett Wilson (F) Scott Wilson (F) Ian Cole (D) Frank Corrado (D) Trevor Daley (D) Tim Erixon (D) Cameron Gaunce (D) Ron Hainsey (D) Stuart Percy (D) Derrick Pouliot (D) Chad Ruhwedel (D) Mark Streit (D) David Warsofsky (D) Marc-Andre Fleury (G)

Protected Sidney Crosby (F) Patric Hornqvist (F) Phil Kessel (F) Evgeni Malkin (F) Brian Dumoulin (D) Kris Letang (D) Olli Maatta (D) Justin Schultz (D) Matt Murray (G)

SAN JOSE SHARKS

Available Mikkel Boedker (F) Barclay Goodrow (F) Micheal Haley (F) Patrick Marleau (F) Buddy Robinson (F) Zack Stortini (F) Joe Thornton (F) Joel Ward (F) Dylan DeMelo (D) Brenden Dillon (D) Dan Kelly (D) Paul Martin (D) David Schlemko (D) Aaron Dell (G) Troy Grosenick (G) Harri Sateri (G)

Protected Ryan Carpenter (F) Logan Couture (F) Jannik Hansen (F) Tomas Hertl (F) Melker Karlsson (F) Joe Pavelski (F) Chris Tierney (F) Justin Braun (D) Brent Burns (D) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (D) Martin Jones (G)

ST. LOUIS BLUES

Available Kenny Agostino (F) Andrew Agozzino (F) Kyle Brodziak (F) Jordan Caron (F) Jacob Doty (F) Landon Ferraro (F) Alex Friesen (F) Evgeny Grachev (F) Dmitrij Jaskin (F) Jori Lehtera (F) Brad Malone (F) Magnus Paajarvi (F) David Perron (F) Ty Rattie (F) Scottie Upshall (F) Nail Yakupov (F) Robert Bortuzzo (D) Chris Butler (D) Morgan Ellis (D) Carl Gunnarsson (D) Jani Hakanpaa (D) Petteri Lindbohm (D) Reid McNeill (D) Jordan Binnington (G) Carter Hutton (G)

Protected Patrik Berglund (F) Ryan Reaves (F) Jaden Schwartz (F) Vladimir Sobotka (F) Paul Stastny (F) Alexander Steen (F) Vladimir Tarasenko (F) Jay Bouwmeester (D) Joel Edmundson (D) Alex Pietrangelo (D) Jake Allen (G)

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

Available Carter Ashton (F) Michael Bournival (F) J.T. Brown (F) Cory Conacher (F) Erik Condra (F) Gabriel Dumont (F) Stefan Fournier (F) Byron Froese (F) Yanni Gourde (F) Mike Halmo (F) Henri Ikonen (F) Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (F) Tye McGinn (F) Greg McKegg (F) Cedric Paquette (F) Tanner Richard (F) Joel Vermin (F) Dylan Blujus (D) Jake Dotchin (D) Jason Garrison (D) Slater Koekkoek (D) Jonathan Racine (D) Andrej Sustr (D) Matt Taormina (D) Luke Witkowski (D) Peter Budaj (G) Kristers Gudlevskis (G) Jaroslav Janus (G) Mike McKenna (G)

Protected Ryan Callahan (F) Tyler Johnson (F) Alex Killorn (F) Nikita Kucherov (F) Vladislav Namestnikov (F) Ondrej Palat (F) Steven Stamkos (F) Braydon Coburn (D) Victor Hedman (D) Anton Stralman (D) Andrei Vasilevskiy (G)

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

Available Brian Boyle (F) Eric Fehr (F) Colin Greening (F) Seth Griffith (F) Teemu Hartikainen (F) Brooks Laich (F) Brendan Leipsic (F) Joffrey Lupul (F) Milan Michalek (F) Kerby Rychel (F) Ben Smith (F) Andrew Campbell (D) Matt Hunwick (D) Alexey Marchenko (D) Martin Marincin (D) Steve Oleksy (D) Roman Polak (D) Antoine Bibeau (G) Curtis McElhinney (G) Garret Sparks (G)

Protected Tyler Bozak (F) Connor Brown (F) Nazem Kadri (F) Leo Komarov (F) Josh Leivo (F) Matt Martin (F) James van Riemsdyk (F) Connor Carrick (D) Jake Gardiner (D) Morgan Rielly (D) Frederik Andersen (G)

VANCOUVER CANUCKS

Available Reid Boucher (F) Michael Chaput (F) Joseph Cramarossa (F) Derek Dorsett (F) Brendan Gaunce (F) Alexandre Grenier (F) Jayson Megna (F) Borna Rendulic (F) Anton Rodin (F) Drew Shore (F) Jack Skille (F) Michael Zalewski (F) Alex Biega (D) Philip Larsen (D) Tom Nilsson (D) Andrey Pedan (D) Luca Sbisa (D) Richard Bachman (G) Ryan Miller (G)

Protected Sven Baertschi (F) Loui Eriksson (F) Markus Granlund (F) Bo Horvat (F) Daniel Sedin (F) Henrik Sedin (F) Brandon Sutter (F) Alexander Edler (D) Erik Gudbranson (D) Christopher Tanev (D) Jacob Markstrom (G)

WASHINGTON CAPITALS

Available Jay Beagle (F) Chris Bourque (F) Paul Carey (F) Brett Connolly (F) Stanislav Galiev (F) Tyler Graovac (F) Garrett Mitchell (F) Liam O’Brien (F) T.J. Oshie (F) Zach Sill (F) Chandler Stephenson (F) Christian Thomas (F) Nathan Walker (F) Justin Williams (F) Daniel Winnik (F) Karl Alzner (D) Taylor Chorney (D) Cody Corbett (D) Darren Dietz (D) Christian Djoos (D) Tom Gilbert (D) Aaron Ness (D) Brooks Orpik (D) Nate Schmidt (D) Kevin Shattenkirk (D) Pheonix Copley (G) Philipp Grubauer (G)

Protected Nicklas Backstrom (F) Andre Burakovsky (F) Lars Eller (F) Marcus Johansson (F) Evgeny Kuznetsov (F) Alex Ovechkin (F) Tom Wilson (F) John Carlson (D) Matt Niskanen (D) Dmitry Orlov (D) Braden Holtby (G)

WINNIPEG JETS

Available Marko Dano (F) Quinton Howden (F) Scott Kosmachuk (F) Tomas Kubalik (F) JC Lipon (F) Shawn Matthias (F) Ryan Olsen (F) Anthony Peluso (F) Chris Thorburn (F) Ben Chiarot (D) Toby Enstrom (D) Brenden Kichton (D) Julian Melchiori (D) Paul Postma (D) Brian Strait (D) Mark Stuart (D) Michael Hutchinson (G) Ondrej Pavelec (G)

Protected Joel Armia (F) Andrew Copp (F) Bryan Little (F) Adam Lowry (F) Mathieu Perreault (F) Mark Scheifele (F) Blake Wheeler (F) Dustin Byfuglien (D) Tyler Myers (D) Jacob Trouba (D) Connor Hellebuyck (G)

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Here are NHL expansion draft protected lists for Vegas Golden Knights

The 30 NHL teams not named the Vegas Golden Knights submitted their expansion draft protected lists on Saturday, and on Sunday those lists were released to the public.

Teams had the option of protecting seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie; or eight skaters and one goalie. Players with no-movement clauses had to be protected by teams, unless they agreed to waive them.

As a reminder: The Golden Knights have to draft at least 14 forwards, nie defensemen and three goalies. They get one player from each team. The value of the players they draft needs to be between 60 percent and 100 percent of the upper limit of the salary cap, meaning they need to take on some big contracts; but they’re not allowed to buy out any players that they select until next summer.

Oh, and there will of course be trades made with Vegas, in an attempt to get them to stay off certain exposed players – or with teams that want the Knights to select players and then ship them to them. It’s like money laundering, but with players!

As the Golden Knights passive aggressively put in on Saturday in a statement: “Vegas has indicated that they will give all 30 clubs every opportunity to keep their rosters intact if they’d like. This means that before the Golden Knights claim a player off a team’s unprotected list, McPhee and his staff are willing to negotiate deals so the other clubs do not lose a player they would otherwise like to keep.”

OK, so who is available? Here are the lists!

ANAHEIM DUCKS

Available Spencer Abbott (F) Jared Boll (F) Sam Carrick (F) Patrick Eaves (F) Emerson Etem (F) Ryan Garbutt (F) Max Gortz (F) Nicolas Kerdiles (F) Andre Petersson (F) Logan Shaw (F) Nick Sorensen (F) Nate Thompson (F) Corey Tropp (F) Chris Wagner (F) Nate Guenin (D) Korbinian Holzer (D) Josh Manson (D) Jaycob Megna (D) Jeff Schultz (D) Clayton Stoner (D) Sami Vatanen (D) Jonathan Bernier (G) Jhonas Enroth (G) Ryan Faragher (G) Matt Hackett (G) Dustin Tokarski (G)

Protected Andrew Cogliano (F) Ryan Getzlaf (F) Ryan Kesler (F) Corey Perry (F) Rickard Rakell (F) Jakob Silfverberg (F) Antoine Vermette (F) Kevin Bieksa (D) Cam Fowler (D) Hampus Lindholm (D) John Gibson (G)

ARIZONA COYOTES

Available Alexander Burmistrov (F) Shane Doan (F) Tyler Gaudet (F) Peter Holland (F) Josh Jooris (F) Jamie McGinn (F) Jeremy Morin (F) Mitchell Moroz (F) Chris Mueller (F) Teemu Pulkkinen (F) Brad Richardson (F) Garret Ross (F) Branden Troock (F) Radim Vrbata (F) Joe Whitney (F) Kevin Connauton (D) Jamie McBain (D) Zbynek Michalek (D) Jarred Tinordi (D) Louis Domingue (G)

Protected Nick Cousins (F) Anthony Duclair (F) Jordan Martinook (F) Tobias Rieder (F) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (D) Alex Goligoski (D) Connor Murphy (D) Luke Schenn (D) Chad Johnson (G)

BOSTON BRUINS

Available Matt Beleskey (F) Brian Ferlin (F) Jimmy Hayes (F) Alex Khokhlachev (F) Dominic Moore (F) Tyler Randell (F) Zac Rinaldo (F) Tim Schaller (F) Drew Stafford (F) Linus Arnesson (D) Chris Casto (D) Tommy Cross (D) Alex Grant (D) John-Michael Liles (D) Adam McQuaid (D) Colin Miller (D) Joe Morrow (D) Anton Khudobin (G) Malcolm Subban (G)

Protected David Backes (F) Patrice Bergeron (F) David Krejci (F) Brad Marchand (F) Riley Nash (F) David Pastrnak (F) Ryan Spooner (F) Zdeno Chara (D) Torey Krug (D) Kevan Miller (D) Tuukka Rask (G)

BUFFALO SABRES

Available William Carrier (F) Nicolas Deslauriers (F) Brian Gionta (F) Derek Grant (F) Justin Kea (F) Matt Moulson (F) Cal O’Reilly (F) Cole Schneider (F) Brady Austin (D) Mathew Bodie (D) Zach Bogosian (D) Justin Falk (D) Taylor Fedun (D) Cody Franson (D) Josh Gorges (D) Dmitry Kulikov (D) Anders Nilsson (G) Linus Ullmark (G)

Protected Tyler Ennis (F) Marcus Foligno (F) Zemgus Girgensons (F) Evander Kane (F) Johan Larsson (F) Ryan O’Reilly (F) Kyle Okposo (F) Nathan Beaulieu (D) Jake McCabe (D) Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Robin Lehner (G)

CALGARY FLAMES

Available Brandon Bollig (F) Lance Bouma (F) Troy Brouwer (F) Alex Chiasson (F) Freddie Hamilton (F) Emile Poirier (F) Hunter Shinkaruk (F) Matt Stajan (F) Kris Versteeg (F) Linden Vey (F) Matt Bartkowski (D) Ryan Culkin (D) Deryk Engelland (D) Michael Kostka (D) Brett Kulak (D) Ladislav Smid (D) Michael Stone (D) Dennis Wideman (D) Tyler Wotherspoon (D) Brian Elliott (G) Tom McCollum (G)

Protected Mikael Backlund (F) Sam Bennett (F) Micheal Ferland (F) Michael Frolik (F) Johnny Gaudreau (F) Curtis Lazar (F) Sean Monahan (F) T.J. Brodie (D) Mark Giordano (D) Dougie Hamilton (D) Mike Smith (G)

CAROLINA HURRICANES

Available Bryan Bickell (F) Connor Brickley (F) Patrick Brown (F) Erik Karlsson (F) Danny Kristo (F) Jay McClement (F) Andrew Miller (F) Andrej Nestrasil (F) Joakim Nordstrom (F) Lee Stempniak (F) Brendan Woods (F) Klas Dahlbeck (D) Dennis Robertson (D) Philip Samuelsson (D) Matt Tennyson (D) Daniel Altshuller (G) Eddie Lack (G) Michael Leighton (G) Cam Ward (G)

Protected Phillip Di Giuseppe (F) Elias Lindholm (F) Brock McGinn (F) Victor Rask (F) Jeff Skinner (F) Jordan Staal (F) Teuvo Teravainen (F) Trevor Carrick (D) Justin Faulk (D) Ryan Murphy (D) Scott Darling (G)

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS

Available Kyle Baun (F) Andrew Desjardins (F) Marcus Kruger (F) Pierre-Cedric Labrie (F) Michael Latta (F) Brandon Mashinter (F) Dennis Rasmussen (F) Jordin Tootoo (F) Brian Campbell (D) Dillon Fournier (D) Shawn Lalonde (D) Johnny Oduya (D) Ville Pokka (D) Michal Rozsival (D) Viktor Svedberg (D) Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) Mac Carruth (G) Jeff Glass (G)

Protected Artem Anisimov (F) Ryan Hartman (F) Marian Hossa (F) Tomas Jurco (F) Patrick Kane (F) Richard Panik (F) Jonathan Toews (F) Niklas Hjalmarsson (D) Duncan Keith (D) Brent Seabrook (D) Corey Crawford (G)

COLORADO AVALANCHE

Available Troy Bourke (F) Gabriel Bourque (F) Rene Bourque (F) Joe Colborne (F) Turner Elson (F) Felix Girard (F) Mikhail Grigorenko (F) Samuel Henley (F) John Mitchell (F) Jim O’Brien (F) Brendan Ranford (F) Mike Sislo (F) Carl Soderberg (F) Mark Barberio (D) Mat Clark (D) Eric Gelinas (D) Cody Goloubef (D) Duncan Siemens (D) Fedor Tyutin (D) Patrick Wiercioch (D) Joe Cannata (G) Calvin Pickard (G) Jeremy Smith (G)

Protected Sven Andrighetto (F) Blake Comeau (F) Matt Duchene (F) Rocco Grimaldi (F) Gabriel Landeskog (F) Nathan MacKinnon (F) Matt Nieto (F) Tyson Barrie (D) Erik Johnson (D) Nikita Zadorov (D) Semyon Varlamov (G)

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

Available Josh Anderson (F) Alex Broadhurst (F) Matt Calvert (F) Zac Dalpe (F) Sam Gagner (F) Brett Gallant (F) William Karlsson (F) Lauri Korpikoski (F) Lukas Sedlak (F) T.J. Tynan (F) Daniel Zaar (F) Marc-Andre Bergeron (D) Scott Harrington (D) Jack Johnson (D) Kyle Quincey (D) John Ramage (D) Jaime Sifers (D) Ryan Stanton (D) Oscar Dansk (G) Anton Forsberg (G) Joonas Korpisalo (G)

Protected Cam Atkinson (F) Brandon Dubinsky (F) Nick Foligno (F) Scott Hartnell (F) Boone Jenner (F) Brandon Saad (F) Alexander Wennberg (F) Seth Jones (D) Ryan Murray (D) David Savard (D) Sergei Bobrovsky (G)

DALLAS STARS

Available Adam Cracknell (F) Justin Dowling (F) Cody Eakin (F) Ales Hemsky (F) Jiri Hudler (F) Curtis McKenzie (F) Mark McNeill (F) Travis Morin (F) Patrick Sharp (F) Gemel Smith (F) Matej Stransky (F) Mattias Backman (D) Andrew Bodnarchuk (D) Ludwig Bystrom (D) Nick Ebert (D) Justin Hache (D) Dan Hamhuis (D) Patrik Nemeth (D) Jamie Oleksiak (D) Greg Pateryn (D) Dustin Stevenson (D) Henri Kiviaho (G) Maxime Lagace (G) Kari Lehtonen (G) Antti Niemi (G) Justin Peters (G)

Protected Jamie Benn (F) Radek Faksa (F) Valeri Nichushkin (F) Brett Ritchie (F) Antoine Roussel (F) Tyler Seguin (F) Jason Spezza (F) Stephen Johns (D) John Klingberg (D) Esa Lindell (D) Ben Bishop (G)

DETROIT RED WINGS

Available Louis-Marc Aubry (F) Mitch Callahan (F) Colin Campbell (F) Martin Frk (F) Luke Glendening (F) Darren Helm (F) Drew Miller (F) Tomas Nosek (F) Riley Sheahan (F) Ben Street (F) Eric Tangradi (F) Adam Almquist (D) Jonathan Ericsson (D) Niklas Kronwall (D) Brian Lashoff (D) Dylan McIlrath (D) Xavier Ouellet (D) Ryan Sproul (D) Jared Coreau (G) Petr Mrazek (G) Edward Pasquale (G) Jake Paterson (G)

Protected Justin Abdelkader (F) Andreas Athanasiou (F) Anthony Mantha (F) Frans Nielsen (F) Gustav Nyquist (F) Tomas Tatar (F) Henrik Zetterberg (F) Danny DeKeyser (D) Mike Green (D) Nick Jensen (D) Jimmy Howard (G)

EDMONTON OILERS

Available David Desharnais (F) Justin Fontaine (F) Matt Hendricks (F) Roman Horak (F) Jujhar Khaira (F) Anton Lander (F) Iiro Pakarinen (F) Tyler Pitlick (F) Zach Pochiro (F) Benoit Pouliot (F) Henrik Samuelsson (F) Bogdan Yakimov (F) Mark Fayne (D) Andrew Ference (D) Mark Fraser (D) Eric Gryba (D) David Musil (D) Jordan Oesterle (D) Griffin Reinhart (D) Kris Russell (D) Dillon Simpson (D) Laurent Brossoit (G) Jonas Gustavsson (G)

Protected Leon Draisaitl (F) Jordan Eberle (F) Zack Kassian (F) Mark Letestu (F) Milan Lucic (F) Patrick Maroon (F) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (F) Oscar Klefbom (D) Adam Larsson (D) Andrej Sekera (D) Cam Talbot (G)

FLORIDA PANTHERS

Available Graham Black (F) Tim Bozon (F) Jaromir Jagr (F) Jussi Jokinen (F) Derek MacKenzie (F) Jonathan Marchessault (F) Colton Sceviour (F) Michael Sgarbossa (F) Reilly Smith (F) Brody Sutter (F) Paul Thompson (F) Shawn Thornton (F) Thomas Vanek (F) Jason Demers (D) Jakub Kindl (D) Brent Regner (D) Reece Scarlett (D) MacKenzie Weegar (D) Reto Berra (G) Sam Brittain (G) Roberto Luongo (G)

Protected Aleksander Barkov (F) Nick Bjugstad (F) Jonathan Huberdeau (F) Vincent Trocheck (F) Aaron Ekblad (D) Alex Petrovic (D) Mark Pysyk (D) Keith Yandle (D) James Reimer (G)

LOS ANGELES KINGS

Available Andy Andreoff (F) Justin Auger (F) Dustin Brown (F) Kyle Clifford (F) Andrew Crescenzi (F) Nic Dowd (F) Marian Gaborik (F) Jarome Iginla (F) Trevor Lewis (F) Michael Mersch (F) Jordan Nolan (F) Teddy Purcell (F) Devin Setoguchi (F) Nick Shore (F) Matt Greene (D) Vincent Loverde (D) Brayden McNabb (D) Cameron Schilling (D) Rob Scuderi (D) Zach Trotman (D) Jack Campbell (G) Jeff Zatkoff (G)

Protected Jeff Carter (F) Anze Kopitar (F) Tanner Pearson (F) Tyler Toffoli (F) Drew Doughty (D) Derek Forbort (D) Alec Martinez (D) Jake Muzzin (D) Jonathan Quick (G)

MINNESOTA WILD

Available Brady Brassart (F) Patrick Cannone (F) Ryan Carter (F) Kurtis Gabriel (F) Martin Hanzal (F) Erik Haula (F) Zack Mitchell (F) Jordan Schroeder (F) Eric Staal (F) Chris Stewart (F) Ryan White (F) Victor Bartley (D) Matt Dumba (D) Christian Folin (D) Guillaume Gelinas (D) Alexander Gudbranson (D) Gustav Olofsson (D) Nate Prosser (D) Marco Scandella (D) Mike Weber (D) Johan Gustafsson (G) Darcy Kuemper (G) Alex Stalock (G)

Protected Charlie Coyle (F) Mikael Granlund (F) Mikko Koivu (F) Nino Niederreiter (F) Zach Parise (F) Jason Pominville (F) Jason Zucker (F) Jonas Brodin (D) Jared Spurgeon (D) Ryan Suter (D) Devan Dubnyk (G)

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Available Daniel Carr (F) Connor Crisp (F) Jacob De La Rose (F) Bobby Farnham (F) Brian Flynn (F) Max Friberg (F) Charles Hudon (F) Dwight King (F) Stefan Matteau (F) Torrey Mitchell (F) Joonas Nattinen (F) Steve Ott (F) Tomas Plekanec (F) Alexander Radulov (F) Chris Terry (F) Brandon Davidson (D) Alexei Emelin (D) Keegan Lowe (D) Andrei Markov (D) Nikita Nesterov (D) Zach Redmond (D) Dalton Thrower (D) Al Montoya (G)

Protected Paul Byron (F) Phillip Danault (F) Jonathan Drouin (F) Alex Galchenyuk (F) Brendan Gallagher (F) Max Pacioretty (F) Andrew Shaw (F) Jordie Benn (D) Jeff Petry (D) Shea Weber (D) Carey Price (G)

NASHVILLE PREDATORS

Available Pontus Aberg (F) Cody Bass (F) Vernon Fiddler (F) Mike Fisher (F) Cody McLeod (F) James Neal (F) PA Parenteau (F) Adam Payerl (F) Mike Ribeiro (F) Miikka Salomaki (F) Colton Sissons (F) Craig Smith (F) Trevor Smith (F) Austin Watson (F) Colin Wilson (F) Harry Zolnierczyk (F) Taylor Aronson (D) Anthony Bitetto (D) Stefan Elliott (D) Petter Granberg (D) Brad Hunt (D) Matt Irwin (D) Andrew O’Brien (D) Adam Pardy (D) Jaynen Rissling (D) Scott Valentine (D) Yannick Weber (D) Marek Mazanec (G)

Protected Viktor Arvidsson (F) Filip Forsberg (F) Calle Jarnkrok (F) Ryan Johansen (F) Mattias Ekholm (D) Ryan Ellis (D) Roman Josi (D) P.K. Subban (D) Pekka Rinne (G)

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

Available Beau Bennett (F) Michael Cammalleri (F) Carter Camper (F) Luke Gazdic (F) Shane Harper (F) Jacob Josefson (F) Ivan Khomutov (F) Stefan Noesen (F) Marc Savard (F) Devante Smith-Pelly (F) Petr Straka (F) Mattias Tedenby (F) Ben Thomson (F) David Wohlberg (F) Seth Helgeson (D) Viktor Loov (D) Ben Lovejoy (D) Andrew MacWilliam (D) Jon Merrill (D) Dalton Prout (D) Karl Stollery (D) Alexander Urbom (D) Keith Kinkaid (G) Scott Wedgewood (G)

Protected Taylor Hall (F) Adam Henrique (F) Kyle Palmieri (F) Travis Zajac (F) Andy Greene (D) John Moore (D) Mirco Mueller (D) Damon Severson (D) Cory Schneider (G)

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Available Josh Bailey (F) Steve Bernier (F) Eric Boulton (F) Jason Chimera (F) Casey Cizikas (F) Cal Clutterbuck (F) Stephen Gionta (F) Ben Holmstrom (F) Bracken Kearns (F) Nikolay Kulemin (F) Brock Nelson (F) Shane Prince (F) Alan Quine (F) Ryan Strome (F) Johan Sundstrom (F) Calvin de Haan (D) Matthew Finn (D) Jesse Graham (D) Thomas Hickey (D) Loic Leduc (D) Scott Mayfield (D) Dennis Seidenberg (D) Jean-Francois Berube (G) Christopher Gibson (G) Jaroslav Halak (G)

Protected Andrew Ladd (F) Anders Lee (F) John Tavares (F) Johnny Boychuk (D) Travis Hamonic (D) Nick Leddy (D) Adam Pelech (D) Ryan Pulock (D) Thomas Greiss (G)

NEW YORK RANGERS

Available Taylor Beck (F) Chris Brown (F) Daniel Catenacci (F) Jesper Fast (F) Tanner Glass (F) Michael Grabner (F) Marek Hrivik (F) Nicklas Jensen (F) Carl Klingberg (F) Oscar Lindberg (F) Brandon Pirri (F) Matt Puempel (F) Adam Clendening (D) Tommy Hughes (D) Steven Kampfer (D) Kevin Klein (D) Michael Paliotta (D) Brendan Smith (D) Chris Summers (D) Magnus Hellberg (G) Antti Raanta (G) Mackenzie Skapski (G)

Protected Kevin Hayes (F) Chris Kreider (F) J.T. Miller (F) Rick Nash (F) Derek Stepan (F) Mika Zibanejad (F) Mats Zuccarello (F) Nick Holden (D) Ryan McDonagh (D) Marc Staal (D) Henrik Lundqvist (G)

OTTAWA SENATORS

Available Casey Bailey (F) Mike Blunden (F) Alexandre Burrows (F) Stephane Da Costa (F) Christopher DiDomenico (F) Nikita Filatov (F) Chris Kelly (F) Clarke MacArthur (F) Max McCormick (F) Chris Neil (F) Tom Pyatt (F) Ryan Rupert (F) Bobby Ryan (F) Viktor Stalberg (F) Phil Varone (F) Tommy Wingels (F) Mark Borowiecki (D) Fredrik Claesson (D) Brandon Gormley (D) Jyrki Jokipakka (D) Marc Methot (D) Patrick Sieloff (D) Chris Wideman (D) Mikael Wikstrand (D) Mike Condon (G) Chris Driedger (G) Andrew Hammond (G)

Protected Derick Brassard (F) Ryan Dzingel (F) Mike Hoffman (F) Jean-Gabriel Pageau (F) Zack Smith (F) Mark Stone (F) Kyle Turris (F) Cody Ceci (D) Erik Karlsson (D) Dion Phaneuf (D) Craig Anderson (G)

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

Available Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (F) Greg Carey (F) Chris Conner (F) Boyd Gordon (F) Taylor Leier (F) Colin McDonald (F) Andy Miele (F) Michael Raffl (F) Matt Read (F) Chris VandeVelde (F) Jordan Weal (F) Dale Weise (F) Eric Wellwood (F) Mark Alt (D) TJ Brennan (D) Michael Del Zotto (D) Andrew MacDonald (D) Will O’Neill (D) Jesper Pettersson (D) Nick Schultz (D) Steve Mason (G) Michal Neuvirth (G)

Protected Sean Couturier (F) Valtteri Filppula (F) Claude Giroux (F) Scott Laughton (F) Brayden Schenn (F) Wayne Simmonds (F) Jakub Voracek (F) Shayne Gostisbehere (D) Radko Gudas (D) Brandon Manning (D) Anthony Stolarz (G)

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS

Available Josh Archibald (F) Nick Bonino (F) Matt Cullen (F) Jean-Sebastien Dea (F) Carl Hagelin (F) Tom Kuhnhackl (F) Chris Kunitz (F) Kevin Porter (F) Bryan Rust (F) Tom Sestito (F) Oskar Sundqvist (F) Dominik Uher (F) Garrett Wilson (F) Scott Wilson (F) Ian Cole (D) Frank Corrado (D) Trevor Daley (D) Tim Erixon (D) Cameron Gaunce (D) Ron Hainsey (D) Stuart Percy (D) Derrick Pouliot (D) Chad Ruhwedel (D) Mark Streit (D) David Warsofsky (D) Marc-Andre Fleury (G)

Protected Sidney Crosby (F) Patric Hornqvist (F) Phil Kessel (F) Evgeni Malkin (F) Brian Dumoulin (D) Kris Letang (D) Olli Maatta (D) Justin Schultz (D) Matt Murray (G)

SAN JOSE SHARKS

Available Mikkel Boedker (F) Barclay Goodrow (F) Micheal Haley (F) Patrick Marleau (F) Buddy Robinson (F) Zack Stortini (F) Joe Thornton (F) Joel Ward (F) Dylan DeMelo (D) Brenden Dillon (D) Dan Kelly (D) Paul Martin (D) David Schlemko (D) Aaron Dell (G) Troy Grosenick (G) Harri Sateri (G)

Protected Ryan Carpenter (F) Logan Couture (F) Jannik Hansen (F) Tomas Hertl (F) Melker Karlsson (F) Joe Pavelski (F) Chris Tierney (F) Justin Braun (D) Brent Burns (D) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (D) Martin Jones (G)

ST. LOUIS BLUES

Available Kenny Agostino (F) Andrew Agozzino (F) Kyle Brodziak (F) Jordan Caron (F) Jacob Doty (F) Landon Ferraro (F) Alex Friesen (F) Evgeny Grachev (F) Dmitrij Jaskin (F) Jori Lehtera (F) Brad Malone (F) Magnus Paajarvi (F) David Perron (F) Ty Rattie (F) Scottie Upshall (F) Nail Yakupov (F) Robert Bortuzzo (D) Chris Butler (D) Morgan Ellis (D) Carl Gunnarsson (D) Jani Hakanpaa (D) Petteri Lindbohm (D) Reid McNeill (D) Jordan Binnington (G) Carter Hutton (G)

Protected Patrik Berglund (F) Ryan Reaves (F) Jaden Schwartz (F) Vladimir Sobotka (F) Paul Stastny (F) Alexander Steen (F) Vladimir Tarasenko (F) Jay Bouwmeester (D) Joel Edmundson (D) Alex Pietrangelo (D) Jake Allen (G)

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

Available Carter Ashton (F) Michael Bournival (F) J.T. Brown (F) Cory Conacher (F) Erik Condra (F) Gabriel Dumont (F) Stefan Fournier (F) Byron Froese (F) Yanni Gourde (F) Mike Halmo (F) Henri Ikonen (F) Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (F) Tye McGinn (F) Greg McKegg (F) Cedric Paquette (F) Tanner Richard (F) Joel Vermin (F) Dylan Blujus (D) Jake Dotchin (D) Jason Garrison (D) Slater Koekkoek (D) Jonathan Racine (D) Andrej Sustr (D) Matt Taormina (D) Luke Witkowski (D) Peter Budaj (G) Kristers Gudlevskis (G) Jaroslav Janus (G) Mike McKenna (G)

Protected Ryan Callahan (F) Tyler Johnson (F) Alex Killorn (F) Nikita Kucherov (F) Vladislav Namestnikov (F) Ondrej Palat (F) Steven Stamkos (F) Braydon Coburn (D) Victor Hedman (D) Anton Stralman (D) Andrei Vasilevskiy (G)

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

Available Brian Boyle (F) Eric Fehr (F) Colin Greening (F) Seth Griffith (F) Teemu Hartikainen (F) Brooks Laich (F) Brendan Leipsic (F) Joffrey Lupul (F) Milan Michalek (F) Kerby Rychel (F) Ben Smith (F) Andrew Campbell (D) Matt Hunwick (D) Alexey Marchenko (D) Martin Marincin (D) Steve Oleksy (D) Roman Polak (D) Antoine Bibeau (G) Curtis McElhinney (G) Garret Sparks (G)

Protected Tyler Bozak (F) Connor Brown (F) Nazem Kadri (F) Leo Komarov (F) Josh Leivo (F) Matt Martin (F) James van Riemsdyk (F) Connor Carrick (D) Jake Gardiner (D) Morgan Rielly (D) Frederik Andersen (G)

VANCOUVER CANUCKS

Available Reid Boucher (F) Michael Chaput (F) Joseph Cramarossa (F) Derek Dorsett (F) Brendan Gaunce (F) Alexandre Grenier (F) Jayson Megna (F) Borna Rendulic (F) Anton Rodin (F) Drew Shore (F) Jack Skille (F) Michael Zalewski (F) Alex Biega (D) Philip Larsen (D) Tom Nilsson (D) Andrey Pedan (D) Luca Sbisa (D) Richard Bachman (G) Ryan Miller (G)

Protected Sven Baertschi (F) Loui Eriksson (F) Markus Granlund (F) Bo Horvat (F) Daniel Sedin (F) Henrik Sedin (F) Brandon Sutter (F) Alexander Edler (D) Erik Gudbranson (D) Christopher Tanev (D) Jacob Markstrom (G)

WASHINGTON CAPITALS

Available Jay Beagle (F) Chris Bourque (F) Paul Carey (F) Brett Connolly (F) Stanislav Galiev (F) Tyler Graovac (F) Garrett Mitchell (F) Liam O’Brien (F) T.J. Oshie (F) Zach Sill (F) Chandler Stephenson (F) Christian Thomas (F) Nathan Walker (F) Justin Williams (F) Daniel Winnik (F) Karl Alzner (D) Taylor Chorney (D) Cody Corbett (D) Darren Dietz (D) Christian Djoos (D) Tom Gilbert (D) Aaron Ness (D) Brooks Orpik (D) Nate Schmidt (D) Kevin Shattenkirk (D) Pheonix Copley (G) Philipp Grubauer (G)

Protected Nicklas Backstrom (F) Andre Burakovsky (F) Lars Eller (F) Marcus Johansson (F) Evgeny Kuznetsov (F) Alex Ovechkin (F) Tom Wilson (F) John Carlson (D) Matt Niskanen (D) Dmitry Orlov (D) Braden Holtby (G)

WINNIPEG JETS

Available Marko Dano (F) Quinton Howden (F) Scott Kosmachuk (F) Tomas Kubalik (F) JC Lipon (F) Shawn Matthias (F) Ryan Olsen (F) Anthony Peluso (F) Chris Thorburn (F) Ben Chiarot (D) Toby Enstrom (D) Brenden Kichton (D) Julian Melchiori (D) Paul Postma (D) Brian Strait (D) Mark Stuart (D) Michael Hutchinson (G) Ondrej Pavelec (G)

Protected Joel Armia (F) Andrew Copp (F) Bryan Little (F) Adam Lowry (F) Mathieu Perreault (F) Mark Scheifele (F) Blake Wheeler (F) Dustin Byfuglien (D) Tyler Myers (D) Jacob Trouba (D) Connor Hellebuyck (G)

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Here are NHL expansion draft protected lists for Vegas Golden Knights

The 30 NHL teams not named the Vegas Golden Knights submitted their expansion draft protected lists on Saturday, and on Sunday those lists were released to the public.

Teams had the option of protecting seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie; or eight skaters and one goalie. Players with no-movement clauses had to be protected by teams, unless they agreed to waive them.

As a reminder: The Golden Knights have to draft at least 14 forwards, nie defensemen and three goalies. They get one player from each team. The value of the players they draft needs to be between 60 percent and 100 percent of the upper limit of the salary cap, meaning they need to take on some big contracts; but they’re not allowed to buy out any players that they select until next summer.

Oh, and there will of course be trades made with Vegas, in an attempt to get them to stay off certain exposed players – or with teams that want the Knights to select players and then ship them to them. It’s like money laundering, but with players!

As the Golden Knights passive aggressively put in on Saturday in a statement: “Vegas has indicated that they will give all 30 clubs every opportunity to keep their rosters intact if they’d like. This means that before the Golden Knights claim a player off a team’s unprotected list, McPhee and his staff are willing to negotiate deals so the other clubs do not lose a player they would otherwise like to keep.”

OK, so who is available? Here are the lists!

ANAHEIM DUCKS

Available Spencer Abbott (F) Jared Boll (F) Sam Carrick (F) Patrick Eaves (F) Emerson Etem (F) Ryan Garbutt (F) Max Gortz (F) Nicolas Kerdiles (F) Andre Petersson (F) Logan Shaw (F) Nick Sorensen (F) Nate Thompson (F) Corey Tropp (F) Chris Wagner (F) Nate Guenin (D) Korbinian Holzer (D) Josh Manson (D) Jaycob Megna (D) Jeff Schultz (D) Clayton Stoner (D) Sami Vatanen (D) Jonathan Bernier (G) Jhonas Enroth (G) Ryan Faragher (G) Matt Hackett (G) Dustin Tokarski (G)

Protected Andrew Cogliano (F) Ryan Getzlaf (F) Ryan Kesler (F) Corey Perry (F) Rickard Rakell (F) Jakob Silfverberg (F) Antoine Vermette (F) Kevin Bieksa (D) Cam Fowler (D) Hampus Lindholm (D) John Gibson (G)

ARIZONA COYOTES

Available Alexander Burmistrov (F) Shane Doan (F) Tyler Gaudet (F) Peter Holland (F) Josh Jooris (F) Jamie McGinn (F) Jeremy Morin (F) Mitchell Moroz (F) Chris Mueller (F) Teemu Pulkkinen (F) Brad Richardson (F) Garret Ross (F) Branden Troock (F) Radim Vrbata (F) Joe Whitney (F) Kevin Connauton (D) Jamie McBain (D) Zbynek Michalek (D) Jarred Tinordi (D) Louis Domingue (G)

Protected Nick Cousins (F) Anthony Duclair (F) Jordan Martinook (F) Tobias Rieder (F) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (D) Alex Goligoski (D) Connor Murphy (D) Luke Schenn (D) Chad Johnson (G)

BOSTON BRUINS

Available Matt Beleskey (F) Brian Ferlin (F) Jimmy Hayes (F) Alex Khokhlachev (F) Dominic Moore (F) Tyler Randell (F) Zac Rinaldo (F) Tim Schaller (F) Drew Stafford (F) Linus Arnesson (D) Chris Casto (D) Tommy Cross (D) Alex Grant (D) John-Michael Liles (D) Adam McQuaid (D) Colin Miller (D) Joe Morrow (D) Anton Khudobin (G) Malcolm Subban (G)

Protected David Backes (F) Patrice Bergeron (F) David Krejci (F) Brad Marchand (F) Riley Nash (F) David Pastrnak (F) Ryan Spooner (F) Zdeno Chara (D) Torey Krug (D) Kevan Miller (D) Tuukka Rask (G)

BUFFALO SABRES

Available William Carrier (F) Nicolas Deslauriers (F) Brian Gionta (F) Derek Grant (F) Justin Kea (F) Matt Moulson (F) Cal O’Reilly (F) Cole Schneider (F) Brady Austin (D) Mathew Bodie (D) Zach Bogosian (D) Justin Falk (D) Taylor Fedun (D) Cody Franson (D) Josh Gorges (D) Dmitry Kulikov (D) Anders Nilsson (G) Linus Ullmark (G)

Protected Tyler Ennis (F) Marcus Foligno (F) Zemgus Girgensons (F) Evander Kane (F) Johan Larsson (F) Ryan O’Reilly (F) Kyle Okposo (F) Nathan Beaulieu (D) Jake McCabe (D) Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Robin Lehner (G)

CALGARY FLAMES

Available Brandon Bollig (F) Lance Bouma (F) Troy Brouwer (F) Alex Chiasson (F) Freddie Hamilton (F) Emile Poirier (F) Hunter Shinkaruk (F) Matt Stajan (F) Kris Versteeg (F) Linden Vey (F) Matt Bartkowski (D) Ryan Culkin (D) Deryk Engelland (D) Michael Kostka (D) Brett Kulak (D) Ladislav Smid (D) Michael Stone (D) Dennis Wideman (D) Tyler Wotherspoon (D) Brian Elliott (G) Tom McCollum (G)

Protected Mikael Backlund (F) Sam Bennett (F) Micheal Ferland (F) Michael Frolik (F) Johnny Gaudreau (F) Curtis Lazar (F) Sean Monahan (F) T.J. Brodie (D) Mark Giordano (D) Dougie Hamilton (D) Mike Smith (G)

CAROLINA HURRICANES

Available Bryan Bickell (F) Connor Brickley (F) Patrick Brown (F) Erik Karlsson (F) Danny Kristo (F) Jay McClement (F) Andrew Miller (F) Andrej Nestrasil (F) Joakim Nordstrom (F) Lee Stempniak (F) Brendan Woods (F) Klas Dahlbeck (D) Dennis Robertson (D) Philip Samuelsson (D) Matt Tennyson (D) Daniel Altshuller (G) Eddie Lack (G) Michael Leighton (G) Cam Ward (G)

Protected Phillip Di Giuseppe (F) Elias Lindholm (F) Brock McGinn (F) Victor Rask (F) Jeff Skinner (F) Jordan Staal (F) Teuvo Teravainen (F) Trevor Carrick (D) Justin Faulk (D) Ryan Murphy (D) Scott Darling (G)

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS

Available Kyle Baun (F) Andrew Desjardins (F) Marcus Kruger (F) Pierre-Cedric Labrie (F) Michael Latta (F) Brandon Mashinter (F) Dennis Rasmussen (F) Jordin Tootoo (F) Brian Campbell (D) Dillon Fournier (D) Shawn Lalonde (D) Johnny Oduya (D) Ville Pokka (D) Michal Rozsival (D) Viktor Svedberg (D) Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) Mac Carruth (G) Jeff Glass (G)

Protected Artem Anisimov (F) Ryan Hartman (F) Marian Hossa (F) Tomas Jurco (F) Patrick Kane (F) Richard Panik (F) Jonathan Toews (F) Niklas Hjalmarsson (D) Duncan Keith (D) Brent Seabrook (D) Corey Crawford (G)

COLORADO AVALANCHE

Available Troy Bourke (F) Gabriel Bourque (F) Rene Bourque (F) Joe Colborne (F) Turner Elson (F) Felix Girard (F) Mikhail Grigorenko (F) Samuel Henley (F) John Mitchell (F) Jim O’Brien (F) Brendan Ranford (F) Mike Sislo (F) Carl Soderberg (F) Mark Barberio (D) Mat Clark (D) Eric Gelinas (D) Cody Goloubef (D) Duncan Siemens (D) Fedor Tyutin (D) Patrick Wiercioch (D) Joe Cannata (G) Calvin Pickard (G) Jeremy Smith (G)

Protected Sven Andrighetto (F) Blake Comeau (F) Matt Duchene (F) Rocco Grimaldi (F) Gabriel Landeskog (F) Nathan MacKinnon (F) Matt Nieto (F) Tyson Barrie (D) Erik Johnson (D) Nikita Zadorov (D) Semyon Varlamov (G)

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

Available Josh Anderson (F) Alex Broadhurst (F) Matt Calvert (F) Zac Dalpe (F) Sam Gagner (F) Brett Gallant (F) William Karlsson (F) Lauri Korpikoski (F) Lukas Sedlak (F) T.J. Tynan (F) Daniel Zaar (F) Marc-Andre Bergeron (D) Scott Harrington (D) Jack Johnson (D) Kyle Quincey (D) John Ramage (D) Jaime Sifers (D) Ryan Stanton (D) Oscar Dansk (G) Anton Forsberg (G) Joonas Korpisalo (G)

Protected Cam Atkinson (F) Brandon Dubinsky (F) Nick Foligno (F) Scott Hartnell (F) Boone Jenner (F) Brandon Saad (F) Alexander Wennberg (F) Seth Jones (D) Ryan Murray (D) David Savard (D) Sergei Bobrovsky (G)

DALLAS STARS

Available Adam Cracknell (F) Justin Dowling (F) Cody Eakin (F) Ales Hemsky (F) Jiri Hudler (F) Curtis McKenzie (F) Mark McNeill (F) Travis Morin (F) Patrick Sharp (F) Gemel Smith (F) Matej Stransky (F) Mattias Backman (D) Andrew Bodnarchuk (D) Ludwig Bystrom (D) Nick Ebert (D) Justin Hache (D) Dan Hamhuis (D) Patrik Nemeth (D) Jamie Oleksiak (D) Greg Pateryn (D) Dustin Stevenson (D) Henri Kiviaho (G) Maxime Lagace (G) Kari Lehtonen (G) Antti Niemi (G) Justin Peters (G)

Protected Jamie Benn (F) Radek Faksa (F) Valeri Nichushkin (F) Brett Ritchie (F) Antoine Roussel (F) Tyler Seguin (F) Jason Spezza (F) Stephen Johns (D) John Klingberg (D) Esa Lindell (D) Ben Bishop (G)

DETROIT RED WINGS

Available Louis-Marc Aubry (F) Mitch Callahan (F) Colin Campbell (F) Martin Frk (F) Luke Glendening (F) Darren Helm (F) Drew Miller (F) Tomas Nosek (F) Riley Sheahan (F) Ben Street (F) Eric Tangradi (F) Adam Almquist (D) Jonathan Ericsson (D) Niklas Kronwall (D) Brian Lashoff (D) Dylan McIlrath (D) Xavier Ouellet (D) Ryan Sproul (D) Jared Coreau (G) Petr Mrazek (G) Edward Pasquale (G) Jake Paterson (G)

Protected Justin Abdelkader (F) Andreas Athanasiou (F) Anthony Mantha (F) Frans Nielsen (F) Gustav Nyquist (F) Tomas Tatar (F) Henrik Zetterberg (F) Danny DeKeyser (D) Mike Green (D) Nick Jensen (D) Jimmy Howard (G)

EDMONTON OILERS

Available David Desharnais (F) Justin Fontaine (F) Matt Hendricks (F) Roman Horak (F) Jujhar Khaira (F) Anton Lander (F) Iiro Pakarinen (F) Tyler Pitlick (F) Zach Pochiro (F) Benoit Pouliot (F) Henrik Samuelsson (F) Bogdan Yakimov (F) Mark Fayne (D) Andrew Ference (D) Mark Fraser (D) Eric Gryba (D) David Musil (D) Jordan Oesterle (D) Griffin Reinhart (D) Kris Russell (D) Dillon Simpson (D) Laurent Brossoit (G) Jonas Gustavsson (G)

Protected Leon Draisaitl (F) Jordan Eberle (F) Zack Kassian (F) Mark Letestu (F) Milan Lucic (F) Patrick Maroon (F) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (F) Oscar Klefbom (D) Adam Larsson (D) Andrej Sekera (D) Cam Talbot (G)

FLORIDA PANTHERS

Available Graham Black (F) Tim Bozon (F) Jaromir Jagr (F) Jussi Jokinen (F) Derek MacKenzie (F) Jonathan Marchessault (F) Colton Sceviour (F) Michael Sgarbossa (F) Reilly Smith (F) Brody Sutter (F) Paul Thompson (F) Shawn Thornton (F) Thomas Vanek (F) Jason Demers (D) Jakub Kindl (D) Brent Regner (D) Reece Scarlett (D) MacKenzie Weegar (D) Reto Berra (G) Sam Brittain (G) Roberto Luongo (G)

Protected Aleksander Barkov (F) Nick Bjugstad (F) Jonathan Huberdeau (F) Vincent Trocheck (F) Aaron Ekblad (D) Alex Petrovic (D) Mark Pysyk (D) Keith Yandle (D) James Reimer (G)

LOS ANGELES KINGS

Available Andy Andreoff (F) Justin Auger (F) Dustin Brown (F) Kyle Clifford (F) Andrew Crescenzi (F) Nic Dowd (F) Marian Gaborik (F) Jarome Iginla (F) Trevor Lewis (F) Michael Mersch (F) Jordan Nolan (F) Teddy Purcell (F) Devin Setoguchi (F) Nick Shore (F) Matt Greene (D) Vincent Loverde (D) Brayden McNabb (D) Cameron Schilling (D) Rob Scuderi (D) Zach Trotman (D) Jack Campbell (G) Jeff Zatkoff (G)

Protected Jeff Carter (F) Anze Kopitar (F) Tanner Pearson (F) Tyler Toffoli (F) Drew Doughty (D) Derek Forbort (D) Alec Martinez (D) Jake Muzzin (D) Jonathan Quick (G)

MINNESOTA WILD

Available Brady Brassart (F) Patrick Cannone (F) Ryan Carter (F) Kurtis Gabriel (F) Martin Hanzal (F) Erik Haula (F) Zack Mitchell (F) Jordan Schroeder (F) Eric Staal (F) Chris Stewart (F) Ryan White (F) Victor Bartley (D) Matt Dumba (D) Christian Folin (D) Guillaume Gelinas (D) Alexander Gudbranson (D) Gustav Olofsson (D) Nate Prosser (D) Marco Scandella (D) Mike Weber (D) Johan Gustafsson (G) Darcy Kuemper (G) Alex Stalock (G)

Protected Charlie Coyle (F) Mikael Granlund (F) Mikko Koivu (F) Nino Niederreiter (F) Zach Parise (F) Jason Pominville (F) Jason Zucker (F) Jonas Brodin (D) Jared Spurgeon (D) Ryan Suter (D) Devan Dubnyk (G)

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Available Daniel Carr (F) Connor Crisp (F) Jacob De La Rose (F) Bobby Farnham (F) Brian Flynn (F) Max Friberg (F) Charles Hudon (F) Dwight King (F) Stefan Matteau (F) Torrey Mitchell (F) Joonas Nattinen (F) Steve Ott (F) Tomas Plekanec (F) Alexander Radulov (F) Chris Terry (F) Brandon Davidson (D) Alexei Emelin (D) Keegan Lowe (D) Andrei Markov (D) Nikita Nesterov (D) Zach Redmond (D) Dalton Thrower (D) Al Montoya (G)

Protected Paul Byron (F) Phillip Danault (F) Jonathan Drouin (F) Alex Galchenyuk (F) Brendan Gallagher (F) Max Pacioretty (F) Andrew Shaw (F) Jordie Benn (D) Jeff Petry (D) Shea Weber (D) Carey Price (G)

NASHVILLE PREDATORS

Available Pontus Aberg (F) Cody Bass (F) Vernon Fiddler (F) Mike Fisher (F) Cody McLeod (F) James Neal (F) PA Parenteau (F) Adam Payerl (F) Mike Ribeiro (F) Miikka Salomaki (F) Colton Sissons (F) Craig Smith (F) Trevor Smith (F) Austin Watson (F) Colin Wilson (F) Harry Zolnierczyk (F) Taylor Aronson (D) Anthony Bitetto (D) Stefan Elliott (D) Petter Granberg (D) Brad Hunt (D) Matt Irwin (D) Andrew O’Brien (D) Adam Pardy (D) Jaynen Rissling (D) Scott Valentine (D) Yannick Weber (D) Marek Mazanec (G)

Protected Viktor Arvidsson (F) Filip Forsberg (F) Calle Jarnkrok (F) Ryan Johansen (F) Mattias Ekholm (D) Ryan Ellis (D) Roman Josi (D) P.K. Subban (D) Pekka Rinne (G)

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

Available Beau Bennett (F) Michael Cammalleri (F) Carter Camper (F) Luke Gazdic (F) Shane Harper (F) Jacob Josefson (F) Ivan Khomutov (F) Stefan Noesen (F) Marc Savard (F) Devante Smith-Pelly (F) Petr Straka (F) Mattias Tedenby (F) Ben Thomson (F) David Wohlberg (F) Seth Helgeson (D) Viktor Loov (D) Ben Lovejoy (D) Andrew MacWilliam (D) Jon Merrill (D) Dalton Prout (D) Karl Stollery (D) Alexander Urbom (D) Keith Kinkaid (G) Scott Wedgewood (G)

Protected Taylor Hall (F) Adam Henrique (F) Kyle Palmieri (F) Travis Zajac (F) Andy Greene (D) John Moore (D) Mirco Mueller (D) Damon Severson (D) Cory Schneider (G)

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Available Josh Bailey (F) Steve Bernier (F) Eric Boulton (F) Jason Chimera (F) Casey Cizikas (F) Cal Clutterbuck (F) Stephen Gionta (F) Ben Holmstrom (F) Bracken Kearns (F) Nikolay Kulemin (F) Brock Nelson (F) Shane Prince (F) Alan Quine (F) Ryan Strome (F) Johan Sundstrom (F) Calvin de Haan (D) Matthew Finn (D) Jesse Graham (D) Thomas Hickey (D) Loic Leduc (D) Scott Mayfield (D) Dennis Seidenberg (D) Jean-Francois Berube (G) Christopher Gibson (G) Jaroslav Halak (G)

Protected Andrew Ladd (F) Anders Lee (F) John Tavares (F) Johnny Boychuk (D) Travis Hamonic (D) Nick Leddy (D) Adam Pelech (D) Ryan Pulock (D) Thomas Greiss (G)

NEW YORK RANGERS

Available Taylor Beck (F) Chris Brown (F) Daniel Catenacci (F) Jesper Fast (F) Tanner Glass (F) Michael Grabner (F) Marek Hrivik (F) Nicklas Jensen (F) Carl Klingberg (F) Oscar Lindberg (F) Brandon Pirri (F) Matt Puempel (F) Adam Clendening (D) Tommy Hughes (D) Steven Kampfer (D) Kevin Klein (D) Michael Paliotta (D) Brendan Smith (D) Chris Summers (D) Magnus Hellberg (G) Antti Raanta (G) Mackenzie Skapski (G)

Protected Kevin Hayes (F) Chris Kreider (F) J.T. Miller (F) Rick Nash (F) Derek Stepan (F) Mika Zibanejad (F) Mats Zuccarello (F) Nick Holden (D) Ryan McDonagh (D) Marc Staal (D) Henrik Lundqvist (G)

OTTAWA SENATORS

Available Casey Bailey (F) Mike Blunden (F) Alexandre Burrows (F) Stephane Da Costa (F) Christopher DiDomenico (F) Nikita Filatov (F) Chris Kelly (F) Clarke MacArthur (F) Max McCormick (F) Chris Neil (F) Tom Pyatt (F) Ryan Rupert (F) Bobby Ryan (F) Viktor Stalberg (F) Phil Varone (F) Tommy Wingels (F) Mark Borowiecki (D) Fredrik Claesson (D) Brandon Gormley (D) Jyrki Jokipakka (D) Marc Methot (D) Patrick Sieloff (D) Chris Wideman (D) Mikael Wikstrand (D) Mike Condon (G) Chris Driedger (G) Andrew Hammond (G)

Protected Derick Brassard (F) Ryan Dzingel (F) Mike Hoffman (F) Jean-Gabriel Pageau (F) Zack Smith (F) Mark Stone (F) Kyle Turris (F) Cody Ceci (D) Erik Karlsson (D) Dion Phaneuf (D) Craig Anderson (G)

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

Available Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (F) Greg Carey (F) Chris Conner (F) Boyd Gordon (F) Taylor Leier (F) Colin McDonald (F) Andy Miele (F) Michael Raffl (F) Matt Read (F) Chris VandeVelde (F) Jordan Weal (F) Dale Weise (F) Eric Wellwood (F) Mark Alt (D) TJ Brennan (D) Michael Del Zotto (D) Andrew MacDonald (D) Will O’Neill (D) Jesper Pettersson (D) Nick Schultz (D) Steve Mason (G) Michal Neuvirth (G)

Protected Sean Couturier (F) Valtteri Filppula (F) Claude Giroux (F) Scott Laughton (F) Brayden Schenn (F) Wayne Simmonds (F) Jakub Voracek (F) Shayne Gostisbehere (D) Radko Gudas (D) Brandon Manning (D) Anthony Stolarz (G)

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS

Available Josh Archibald (F) Nick Bonino (F) Matt Cullen (F) Jean-Sebastien Dea (F) Carl Hagelin (F) Tom Kuhnhackl (F) Chris Kunitz (F) Kevin Porter (F) Bryan Rust (F) Tom Sestito (F) Oskar Sundqvist (F) Dominik Uher (F) Garrett Wilson (F) Scott Wilson (F) Ian Cole (D) Frank Corrado (D) Trevor Daley (D) Tim Erixon (D) Cameron Gaunce (D) Ron Hainsey (D) Stuart Percy (D) Derrick Pouliot (D) Chad Ruhwedel (D) Mark Streit (D) David Warsofsky (D) Marc-Andre Fleury (G)

Protected Sidney Crosby (F) Patric Hornqvist (F) Phil Kessel (F) Evgeni Malkin (F) Brian Dumoulin (D) Kris Letang (D) Olli Maatta (D) Justin Schultz (D) Matt Murray (G)

SAN JOSE SHARKS

Available Mikkel Boedker (F) Barclay Goodrow (F) Micheal Haley (F) Patrick Marleau (F) Buddy Robinson (F) Zack Stortini (F) Joe Thornton (F) Joel Ward (F) Dylan DeMelo (D) Brenden Dillon (D) Dan Kelly (D) Paul Martin (D) David Schlemko (D) Aaron Dell (G) Troy Grosenick (G) Harri Sateri (G)

Protected Ryan Carpenter (F) Logan Couture (F) Jannik Hansen (F) Tomas Hertl (F) Melker Karlsson (F) Joe Pavelski (F) Chris Tierney (F) Justin Braun (D) Brent Burns (D) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (D) Martin Jones (G)

ST. LOUIS BLUES

Available Kenny Agostino (F) Andrew Agozzino (F) Kyle Brodziak (F) Jordan Caron (F) Jacob Doty (F) Landon Ferraro (F) Alex Friesen (F) Evgeny Grachev (F) Dmitrij Jaskin (F) Jori Lehtera (F) Brad Malone (F) Magnus Paajarvi (F) David Perron (F) Ty Rattie (F) Scottie Upshall (F) Nail Yakupov (F) Robert Bortuzzo (D) Chris Butler (D) Morgan Ellis (D) Carl Gunnarsson (D) Jani Hakanpaa (D) Petteri Lindbohm (D) Reid McNeill (D) Jordan Binnington (G) Carter Hutton (G)

Protected Patrik Berglund (F) Ryan Reaves (F) Jaden Schwartz (F) Vladimir Sobotka (F) Paul Stastny (F) Alexander Steen (F) Vladimir Tarasenko (F) Jay Bouwmeester (D) Joel Edmundson (D) Alex Pietrangelo (D) Jake Allen (G)

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

Available Carter Ashton (F) Michael Bournival (F) J.T. Brown (F) Cory Conacher (F) Erik Condra (F) Gabriel Dumont (F) Stefan Fournier (F) Byron Froese (F) Yanni Gourde (F) Mike Halmo (F) Henri Ikonen (F) Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (F) Tye McGinn (F) Greg McKegg (F) Cedric Paquette (F) Tanner Richard (F) Joel Vermin (F) Dylan Blujus (D) Jake Dotchin (D) Jason Garrison (D) Slater Koekkoek (D) Jonathan Racine (D) Andrej Sustr (D) Matt Taormina (D) Luke Witkowski (D) Peter Budaj (G) Kristers Gudlevskis (G) Jaroslav Janus (G) Mike McKenna (G)

Protected Ryan Callahan (F) Tyler Johnson (F) Alex Killorn (F) Nikita Kucherov (F) Vladislav Namestnikov (F) Ondrej Palat (F) Steven Stamkos (F) Braydon Coburn (D) Victor Hedman (D) Anton Stralman (D) Andrei Vasilevskiy (G)

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

Available Brian Boyle (F) Eric Fehr (F) Colin Greening (F) Seth Griffith (F) Teemu Hartikainen (F) Brooks Laich (F) Brendan Leipsic (F) Joffrey Lupul (F) Milan Michalek (F) Kerby Rychel (F) Ben Smith (F) Andrew Campbell (D) Matt Hunwick (D) Alexey Marchenko (D) Martin Marincin (D) Steve Oleksy (D) Roman Polak (D) Antoine Bibeau (G) Curtis McElhinney (G) Garret Sparks (G)

Protected Tyler Bozak (F) Connor Brown (F) Nazem Kadri (F) Leo Komarov (F) Josh Leivo (F) Matt Martin (F) James van Riemsdyk (F) Connor Carrick (D) Jake Gardiner (D) Morgan Rielly (D) Frederik Andersen (G)

VANCOUVER CANUCKS

Available Reid Boucher (F) Michael Chaput (F) Joseph Cramarossa (F) Derek Dorsett (F) Brendan Gaunce (F) Alexandre Grenier (F) Jayson Megna (F) Borna Rendulic (F) Anton Rodin (F) Drew Shore (F) Jack Skille (F) Michael Zalewski (F) Alex Biega (D) Philip Larsen (D) Tom Nilsson (D) Andrey Pedan (D) Luca Sbisa (D) Richard Bachman (G) Ryan Miller (G)

Protected Sven Baertschi (F) Loui Eriksson (F) Markus Granlund (F) Bo Horvat (F) Daniel Sedin (F) Henrik Sedin (F) Brandon Sutter (F) Alexander Edler (D) Erik Gudbranson (D) Christopher Tanev (D) Jacob Markstrom (G)

WASHINGTON CAPITALS

Available Jay Beagle (F) Chris Bourque (F) Paul Carey (F) Brett Connolly (F) Stanislav Galiev (F) Tyler Graovac (F) Garrett Mitchell (F) Liam O’Brien (F) T.J. Oshie (F) Zach Sill (F) Chandler Stephenson (F) Christian Thomas (F) Nathan Walker (F) Justin Williams (F) Daniel Winnik (F) Karl Alzner (D) Taylor Chorney (D) Cody Corbett (D) Darren Dietz (D) Christian Djoos (D) Tom Gilbert (D) Aaron Ness (D) Brooks Orpik (D) Nate Schmidt (D) Kevin Shattenkirk (D) Pheonix Copley (G) Philipp Grubauer (G)

Protected Nicklas Backstrom (F) Andre Burakovsky (F) Lars Eller (F) Marcus Johansson (F) Evgeny Kuznetsov (F) Alex Ovechkin (F) Tom Wilson (F) John Carlson (D) Matt Niskanen (D) Dmitry Orlov (D) Braden Holtby (G)

WINNIPEG JETS

Available Marko Dano (F) Quinton Howden (F) Scott Kosmachuk (F) Tomas Kubalik (F) JC Lipon (F) Shawn Matthias (F) Ryan Olsen (F) Anthony Peluso (F) Chris Thorburn (F) Ben Chiarot (D) Toby Enstrom (D) Brenden Kichton (D) Julian Melchiori (D) Paul Postma (D) Brian Strait (D) Mark Stuart (D) Michael Hutchinson (G) Ondrej Pavelec (G)

Protected Joel Armia (F) Andrew Copp (F) Bryan Little (F) Adam Lowry (F) Mathieu Perreault (F) Mark Scheifele (F) Blake Wheeler (F) Dustin Byfuglien (D) Tyler Myers (D) Jacob Trouba (D) Connor Hellebuyck (G)

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Here are NHL expansion draft protected lists for Vegas Golden Knights

The 30 NHL teams not named the Vegas Golden Knights submitted their expansion draft protected lists on Saturday, and on Sunday those lists were released to the public.

Teams had the option of protecting seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie; or eight skaters and one goalie. Players with no-movement clauses had to be protected by teams, unless they agreed to waive them.

As a reminder: The Golden Knights have to draft at least 14 forwards, nie defensemen and three goalies. They get one player from each team. The value of the players they draft needs to be between 60 percent and 100 percent of the upper limit of the salary cap, meaning they need to take on some big contracts; but they’re not allowed to buy out any players that they select until next summer.

Oh, and there will of course be trades made with Vegas, in an attempt to get them to stay off certain exposed players – or with teams that want the Knights to select players and then ship them to them. It’s like money laundering, but with players!

As the Golden Knights passive aggressively put in on Saturday in a statement: “Vegas has indicated that they will give all 30 clubs every opportunity to keep their rosters intact if they’d like. This means that before the Golden Knights claim a player off a team’s unprotected list, McPhee and his staff are willing to negotiate deals so the other clubs do not lose a player they would otherwise like to keep.”

OK, so who is available? Here are the lists!

ANAHEIM DUCKS

Available Spencer Abbott (F) Jared Boll (F) Sam Carrick (F) Patrick Eaves (F) Emerson Etem (F) Ryan Garbutt (F) Max Gortz (F) Nicolas Kerdiles (F) Andre Petersson (F) Logan Shaw (F) Nick Sorensen (F) Nate Thompson (F) Corey Tropp (F) Chris Wagner (F) Nate Guenin (D) Korbinian Holzer (D) Josh Manson (D) Jaycob Megna (D) Jeff Schultz (D) Clayton Stoner (D) Sami Vatanen (D) Jonathan Bernier (G) Jhonas Enroth (G) Ryan Faragher (G) Matt Hackett (G) Dustin Tokarski (G)

Protected Andrew Cogliano (F) Ryan Getzlaf (F) Ryan Kesler (F) Corey Perry (F) Rickard Rakell (F) Jakob Silfverberg (F) Antoine Vermette (F) Kevin Bieksa (D) Cam Fowler (D) Hampus Lindholm (D) John Gibson (G)

ARIZONA COYOTES

Available Alexander Burmistrov (F) Shane Doan (F) Tyler Gaudet (F) Peter Holland (F) Josh Jooris (F) Jamie McGinn (F) Jeremy Morin (F) Mitchell Moroz (F) Chris Mueller (F) Teemu Pulkkinen (F) Brad Richardson (F) Garret Ross (F) Branden Troock (F) Radim Vrbata (F) Joe Whitney (F) Kevin Connauton (D) Jamie McBain (D) Zbynek Michalek (D) Jarred Tinordi (D) Louis Domingue (G)

Protected Nick Cousins (F) Anthony Duclair (F) Jordan Martinook (F) Tobias Rieder (F) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (D) Alex Goligoski (D) Connor Murphy (D) Luke Schenn (D) Chad Johnson (G)

BOSTON BRUINS

Available Matt Beleskey (F) Brian Ferlin (F) Jimmy Hayes (F) Alex Khokhlachev (F) Dominic Moore (F) Tyler Randell (F) Zac Rinaldo (F) Tim Schaller (F) Drew Stafford (F) Linus Arnesson (D) Chris Casto (D) Tommy Cross (D) Alex Grant (D) John-Michael Liles (D) Adam McQuaid (D) Colin Miller (D) Joe Morrow (D) Anton Khudobin (G) Malcolm Subban (G)

Protected David Backes (F) Patrice Bergeron (F) David Krejci (F) Brad Marchand (F) Riley Nash (F) David Pastrnak (F) Ryan Spooner (F) Zdeno Chara (D) Torey Krug (D) Kevan Miller (D) Tuukka Rask (G)

BUFFALO SABRES

Available William Carrier (F) Nicolas Deslauriers (F) Brian Gionta (F) Derek Grant (F) Justin Kea (F) Matt Moulson (F) Cal O’Reilly (F) Cole Schneider (F) Brady Austin (D) Mathew Bodie (D) Zach Bogosian (D) Justin Falk (D) Taylor Fedun (D) Cody Franson (D) Josh Gorges (D) Dmitry Kulikov (D) Anders Nilsson (G) Linus Ullmark (G)

Protected Tyler Ennis (F) Marcus Foligno (F) Zemgus Girgensons (F) Evander Kane (F) Johan Larsson (F) Ryan O’Reilly (F) Kyle Okposo (F) Nathan Beaulieu (D) Jake McCabe (D) Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Robin Lehner (G)

CALGARY FLAMES

Available Brandon Bollig (F) Lance Bouma (F) Troy Brouwer (F) Alex Chiasson (F) Freddie Hamilton (F) Emile Poirier (F) Hunter Shinkaruk (F) Matt Stajan (F) Kris Versteeg (F) Linden Vey (F) Matt Bartkowski (D) Ryan Culkin (D) Deryk Engelland (D) Michael Kostka (D) Brett Kulak (D) Ladislav Smid (D) Michael Stone (D) Dennis Wideman (D) Tyler Wotherspoon (D) Brian Elliott (G) Tom McCollum (G)

Protected Mikael Backlund (F) Sam Bennett (F) Micheal Ferland (F) Michael Frolik (F) Johnny Gaudreau (F) Curtis Lazar (F) Sean Monahan (F) T.J. Brodie (D) Mark Giordano (D) Dougie Hamilton (D) Mike Smith (G)

CAROLINA HURRICANES

Available Bryan Bickell (F) Connor Brickley (F) Patrick Brown (F) Erik Karlsson (F) Danny Kristo (F) Jay McClement (F) Andrew Miller (F) Andrej Nestrasil (F) Joakim Nordstrom (F) Lee Stempniak (F) Brendan Woods (F) Klas Dahlbeck (D) Dennis Robertson (D) Philip Samuelsson (D) Matt Tennyson (D) Daniel Altshuller (G) Eddie Lack (G) Michael Leighton (G) Cam Ward (G)

Protected Phillip Di Giuseppe (F) Elias Lindholm (F) Brock McGinn (F) Victor Rask (F) Jeff Skinner (F) Jordan Staal (F) Teuvo Teravainen (F) Trevor Carrick (D) Justin Faulk (D) Ryan Murphy (D) Scott Darling (G)

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS

Available Kyle Baun (F) Andrew Desjardins (F) Marcus Kruger (F) Pierre-Cedric Labrie (F) Michael Latta (F) Brandon Mashinter (F) Dennis Rasmussen (F) Jordin Tootoo (F) Brian Campbell (D) Dillon Fournier (D) Shawn Lalonde (D) Johnny Oduya (D) Ville Pokka (D) Michal Rozsival (D) Viktor Svedberg (D) Trevor van Riemsdyk (D) Mac Carruth (G) Jeff Glass (G)

Protected Artem Anisimov (F) Ryan Hartman (F) Marian Hossa (F) Tomas Jurco (F) Patrick Kane (F) Richard Panik (F) Jonathan Toews (F) Niklas Hjalmarsson (D) Duncan Keith (D) Brent Seabrook (D) Corey Crawford (G)

COLORADO AVALANCHE

Available Troy Bourke (F) Gabriel Bourque (F) Rene Bourque (F) Joe Colborne (F) Turner Elson (F) Felix Girard (F) Mikhail Grigorenko (F) Samuel Henley (F) John Mitchell (F) Jim O’Brien (F) Brendan Ranford (F) Mike Sislo (F) Carl Soderberg (F) Mark Barberio (D) Mat Clark (D) Eric Gelinas (D) Cody Goloubef (D) Duncan Siemens (D) Fedor Tyutin (D) Patrick Wiercioch (D) Joe Cannata (G) Calvin Pickard (G) Jeremy Smith (G)

Protected Sven Andrighetto (F) Blake Comeau (F) Matt Duchene (F) Rocco Grimaldi (F) Gabriel Landeskog (F) Nathan MacKinnon (F) Matt Nieto (F) Tyson Barrie (D) Erik Johnson (D) Nikita Zadorov (D) Semyon Varlamov (G)

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

Available Josh Anderson (F) Alex Broadhurst (F) Matt Calvert (F) Zac Dalpe (F) Sam Gagner (F) Brett Gallant (F) William Karlsson (F) Lauri Korpikoski (F) Lukas Sedlak (F) T.J. Tynan (F) Daniel Zaar (F) Marc-Andre Bergeron (D) Scott Harrington (D) Jack Johnson (D) Kyle Quincey (D) John Ramage (D) Jaime Sifers (D) Ryan Stanton (D) Oscar Dansk (G) Anton Forsberg (G) Joonas Korpisalo (G)

Protected Cam Atkinson (F) Brandon Dubinsky (F) Nick Foligno (F) Scott Hartnell (F) Boone Jenner (F) Brandon Saad (F) Alexander Wennberg (F) Seth Jones (D) Ryan Murray (D) David Savard (D) Sergei Bobrovsky (G)

DALLAS STARS

Available Adam Cracknell (F) Justin Dowling (F) Cody Eakin (F) Ales Hemsky (F) Jiri Hudler (F) Curtis McKenzie (F) Mark McNeill (F) Travis Morin (F) Patrick Sharp (F) Gemel Smith (F) Matej Stransky (F) Mattias Backman (D) Andrew Bodnarchuk (D) Ludwig Bystrom (D) Nick Ebert (D) Justin Hache (D) Dan Hamhuis (D) Patrik Nemeth (D) Jamie Oleksiak (D) Greg Pateryn (D) Dustin Stevenson (D) Henri Kiviaho (G) Maxime Lagace (G) Kari Lehtonen (G) Antti Niemi (G) Justin Peters (G)

Protected Jamie Benn (F) Radek Faksa (F) Valeri Nichushkin (F) Brett Ritchie (F) Antoine Roussel (F) Tyler Seguin (F) Jason Spezza (F) Stephen Johns (D) John Klingberg (D) Esa Lindell (D) Ben Bishop (G)

DETROIT RED WINGS

Available Louis-Marc Aubry (F) Mitch Callahan (F) Colin Campbell (F) Martin Frk (F) Luke Glendening (F) Darren Helm (F) Drew Miller (F) Tomas Nosek (F) Riley Sheahan (F) Ben Street (F) Eric Tangradi (F) Adam Almquist (D) Jonathan Ericsson (D) Niklas Kronwall (D) Brian Lashoff (D) Dylan McIlrath (D) Xavier Ouellet (D) Ryan Sproul (D) Jared Coreau (G) Petr Mrazek (G) Edward Pasquale (G) Jake Paterson (G)

Protected Justin Abdelkader (F) Andreas Athanasiou (F) Anthony Mantha (F) Frans Nielsen (F) Gustav Nyquist (F) Tomas Tatar (F) Henrik Zetterberg (F) Danny DeKeyser (D) Mike Green (D) Nick Jensen (D) Jimmy Howard (G)

EDMONTON OILERS

Available David Desharnais (F) Justin Fontaine (F) Matt Hendricks (F) Roman Horak (F) Jujhar Khaira (F) Anton Lander (F) Iiro Pakarinen (F) Tyler Pitlick (F) Zach Pochiro (F) Benoit Pouliot (F) Henrik Samuelsson (F) Bogdan Yakimov (F) Mark Fayne (D) Andrew Ference (D) Mark Fraser (D) Eric Gryba (D) David Musil (D) Jordan Oesterle (D) Griffin Reinhart (D) Kris Russell (D) Dillon Simpson (D) Laurent Brossoit (G) Jonas Gustavsson (G)

Protected Leon Draisaitl (F) Jordan Eberle (F) Zack Kassian (F) Mark Letestu (F) Milan Lucic (F) Patrick Maroon (F) Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (F) Oscar Klefbom (D) Adam Larsson (D) Andrej Sekera (D) Cam Talbot (G)

FLORIDA PANTHERS

Available Graham Black (F) Tim Bozon (F) Jaromir Jagr (F) Jussi Jokinen (F) Derek MacKenzie (F) Jonathan Marchessault (F) Colton Sceviour (F) Michael Sgarbossa (F) Reilly Smith (F) Brody Sutter (F) Paul Thompson (F) Shawn Thornton (F) Thomas Vanek (F) Jason Demers (D) Jakub Kindl (D) Brent Regner (D) Reece Scarlett (D) MacKenzie Weegar (D) Reto Berra (G) Sam Brittain (G) Roberto Luongo (G)

Protected Aleksander Barkov (F) Nick Bjugstad (F) Jonathan Huberdeau (F) Vincent Trocheck (F) Aaron Ekblad (D) Alex Petrovic (D) Mark Pysyk (D) Keith Yandle (D) James Reimer (G)

LOS ANGELES KINGS

Available Andy Andreoff (F) Justin Auger (F) Dustin Brown (F) Kyle Clifford (F) Andrew Crescenzi (F) Nic Dowd (F) Marian Gaborik (F) Jarome Iginla (F) Trevor Lewis (F) Michael Mersch (F) Jordan Nolan (F) Teddy Purcell (F) Devin Setoguchi (F) Nick Shore (F) Matt Greene (D) Vincent Loverde (D) Brayden McNabb (D) Cameron Schilling (D) Rob Scuderi (D) Zach Trotman (D) Jack Campbell (G) Jeff Zatkoff (G)

Protected Jeff Carter (F) Anze Kopitar (F) Tanner Pearson (F) Tyler Toffoli (F) Drew Doughty (D) Derek Forbort (D) Alec Martinez (D) Jake Muzzin (D) Jonathan Quick (G)

MINNESOTA WILD

Available Brady Brassart (F) Patrick Cannone (F) Ryan Carter (F) Kurtis Gabriel (F) Martin Hanzal (F) Erik Haula (F) Zack Mitchell (F) Jordan Schroeder (F) Eric Staal (F) Chris Stewart (F) Ryan White (F) Victor Bartley (D) Matt Dumba (D) Christian Folin (D) Guillaume Gelinas (D) Alexander Gudbranson (D) Gustav Olofsson (D) Nate Prosser (D) Marco Scandella (D) Mike Weber (D) Johan Gustafsson (G) Darcy Kuemper (G) Alex Stalock (G)

Protected Charlie Coyle (F) Mikael Granlund (F) Mikko Koivu (F) Nino Niederreiter (F) Zach Parise (F) Jason Pominville (F) Jason Zucker (F) Jonas Brodin (D) Jared Spurgeon (D) Ryan Suter (D) Devan Dubnyk (G)

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Available Daniel Carr (F) Connor Crisp (F) Jacob De La Rose (F) Bobby Farnham (F) Brian Flynn (F) Max Friberg (F) Charles Hudon (F) Dwight King (F) Stefan Matteau (F) Torrey Mitchell (F) Joonas Nattinen (F) Steve Ott (F) Tomas Plekanec (F) Alexander Radulov (F) Chris Terry (F) Brandon Davidson (D) Alexei Emelin (D) Keegan Lowe (D) Andrei Markov (D) Nikita Nesterov (D) Zach Redmond (D) Dalton Thrower (D) Al Montoya (G)

Protected Paul Byron (F) Phillip Danault (F) Jonathan Drouin (F) Alex Galchenyuk (F) Brendan Gallagher (F) Max Pacioretty (F) Andrew Shaw (F) Jordie Benn (D) Jeff Petry (D) Shea Weber (D) Carey Price (G)

NASHVILLE PREDATORS

Available Pontus Aberg (F) Cody Bass (F) Vernon Fiddler (F) Mike Fisher (F) Cody McLeod (F) James Neal (F) PA Parenteau (F) Adam Payerl (F) Mike Ribeiro (F) Miikka Salomaki (F) Colton Sissons (F) Craig Smith (F) Trevor Smith (F) Austin Watson (F) Colin Wilson (F) Harry Zolnierczyk (F) Taylor Aronson (D) Anthony Bitetto (D) Stefan Elliott (D) Petter Granberg (D) Brad Hunt (D) Matt Irwin (D) Andrew O’Brien (D) Adam Pardy (D) Jaynen Rissling (D) Scott Valentine (D) Yannick Weber (D) Marek Mazanec (G)

Protected Viktor Arvidsson (F) Filip Forsberg (F) Calle Jarnkrok (F) Ryan Johansen (F) Mattias Ekholm (D) Ryan Ellis (D) Roman Josi (D) P.K. Subban (D) Pekka Rinne (G)

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

Available Beau Bennett (F) Michael Cammalleri (F) Carter Camper (F) Luke Gazdic (F) Shane Harper (F) Jacob Josefson (F) Ivan Khomutov (F) Stefan Noesen (F) Marc Savard (F) Devante Smith-Pelly (F) Petr Straka (F) Mattias Tedenby (F) Ben Thomson (F) David Wohlberg (F) Seth Helgeson (D) Viktor Loov (D) Ben Lovejoy (D) Andrew MacWilliam (D) Jon Merrill (D) Dalton Prout (D) Karl Stollery (D) Alexander Urbom (D) Keith Kinkaid (G) Scott Wedgewood (G)

Protected Taylor Hall (F) Adam Henrique (F) Kyle Palmieri (F) Travis Zajac (F) Andy Greene (D) John Moore (D) Mirco Mueller (D) Damon Severson (D) Cory Schneider (G)

NEW YORK ISLANDERS

Available Josh Bailey (F) Steve Bernier (F) Eric Boulton (F) Jason Chimera (F) Casey Cizikas (F) Cal Clutterbuck (F) Stephen Gionta (F) Ben Holmstrom (F) Bracken Kearns (F) Nikolay Kulemin (F) Brock Nelson (F) Shane Prince (F) Alan Quine (F) Ryan Strome (F) Johan Sundstrom (F) Calvin de Haan (D) Matthew Finn (D) Jesse Graham (D) Thomas Hickey (D) Loic Leduc (D) Scott Mayfield (D) Dennis Seidenberg (D) Jean-Francois Berube (G) Christopher Gibson (G) Jaroslav Halak (G)

Protected Andrew Ladd (F) Anders Lee (F) John Tavares (F) Johnny Boychuk (D) Travis Hamonic (D) Nick Leddy (D) Adam Pelech (D) Ryan Pulock (D) Thomas Greiss (G)

NEW YORK RANGERS

Available Taylor Beck (F) Chris Brown (F) Daniel Catenacci (F) Jesper Fast (F) Tanner Glass (F) Michael Grabner (F) Marek Hrivik (F) Nicklas Jensen (F) Carl Klingberg (F) Oscar Lindberg (F) Brandon Pirri (F) Matt Puempel (F) Adam Clendening (D) Tommy Hughes (D) Steven Kampfer (D) Kevin Klein (D) Michael Paliotta (D) Brendan Smith (D) Chris Summers (D) Magnus Hellberg (G) Antti Raanta (G) Mackenzie Skapski (G)

Protected Kevin Hayes (F) Chris Kreider (F) J.T. Miller (F) Rick Nash (F) Derek Stepan (F) Mika Zibanejad (F) Mats Zuccarello (F) Nick Holden (D) Ryan McDonagh (D) Marc Staal (D) Henrik Lundqvist (G)

OTTAWA SENATORS

Available Casey Bailey (F) Mike Blunden (F) Alexandre Burrows (F) Stephane Da Costa (F) Christopher DiDomenico (F) Nikita Filatov (F) Chris Kelly (F) Clarke MacArthur (F) Max McCormick (F) Chris Neil (F) Tom Pyatt (F) Ryan Rupert (F) Bobby Ryan (F) Viktor Stalberg (F) Phil Varone (F) Tommy Wingels (F) Mark Borowiecki (D) Fredrik Claesson (D) Brandon Gormley (D) Jyrki Jokipakka (D) Marc Methot (D) Patrick Sieloff (D) Chris Wideman (D) Mikael Wikstrand (D) Mike Condon (G) Chris Driedger (G) Andrew Hammond (G)

Protected Derick Brassard (F) Ryan Dzingel (F) Mike Hoffman (F) Jean-Gabriel Pageau (F) Zack Smith (F) Mark Stone (F) Kyle Turris (F) Cody Ceci (D) Erik Karlsson (D) Dion Phaneuf (D) Craig Anderson (G)

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

Available Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (F) Greg Carey (F) Chris Conner (F) Boyd Gordon (F) Taylor Leier (F) Colin McDonald (F) Andy Miele (F) Michael Raffl (F) Matt Read (F) Chris VandeVelde (F) Jordan Weal (F) Dale Weise (F) Eric Wellwood (F) Mark Alt (D) TJ Brennan (D) Michael Del Zotto (D) Andrew MacDonald (D) Will O’Neill (D) Jesper Pettersson (D) Nick Schultz (D) Steve Mason (G) Michal Neuvirth (G)

Protected Sean Couturier (F) Valtteri Filppula (F) Claude Giroux (F) Scott Laughton (F) Brayden Schenn (F) Wayne Simmonds (F) Jakub Voracek (F) Shayne Gostisbehere (D) Radko Gudas (D) Brandon Manning (D) Anthony Stolarz (G)

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS

Available Josh Archibald (F) Nick Bonino (F) Matt Cullen (F) Jean-Sebastien Dea (F) Carl Hagelin (F) Tom Kuhnhackl (F) Chris Kunitz (F) Kevin Porter (F) Bryan Rust (F) Tom Sestito (F) Oskar Sundqvist (F) Dominik Uher (F) Garrett Wilson (F) Scott Wilson (F) Ian Cole (D) Frank Corrado (D) Trevor Daley (D) Tim Erixon (D) Cameron Gaunce (D) Ron Hainsey (D) Stuart Percy (D) Derrick Pouliot (D) Chad Ruhwedel (D) Mark Streit (D) David Warsofsky (D) Marc-Andre Fleury (G)

Protected Sidney Crosby (F) Patric Hornqvist (F) Phil Kessel (F) Evgeni Malkin (F) Brian Dumoulin (D) Kris Letang (D) Olli Maatta (D) Justin Schultz (D) Matt Murray (G)

SAN JOSE SHARKS

Available Mikkel Boedker (F) Barclay Goodrow (F) Micheal Haley (F) Patrick Marleau (F) Buddy Robinson (F) Zack Stortini (F) Joe Thornton (F) Joel Ward (F) Dylan DeMelo (D) Brenden Dillon (D) Dan Kelly (D) Paul Martin (D) David Schlemko (D) Aaron Dell (G) Troy Grosenick (G) Harri Sateri (G)

Protected Ryan Carpenter (F) Logan Couture (F) Jannik Hansen (F) Tomas Hertl (F) Melker Karlsson (F) Joe Pavelski (F) Chris Tierney (F) Justin Braun (D) Brent Burns (D) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (D) Martin Jones (G)

ST. LOUIS BLUES

Available Kenny Agostino (F) Andrew Agozzino (F) Kyle Brodziak (F) Jordan Caron (F) Jacob Doty (F) Landon Ferraro (F) Alex Friesen (F) Evgeny Grachev (F) Dmitrij Jaskin (F) Jori Lehtera (F) Brad Malone (F) Magnus Paajarvi (F) David Perron (F) Ty Rattie (F) Scottie Upshall (F) Nail Yakupov (F) Robert Bortuzzo (D) Chris Butler (D) Morgan Ellis (D) Carl Gunnarsson (D) Jani Hakanpaa (D) Petteri Lindbohm (D) Reid McNeill (D) Jordan Binnington (G) Carter Hutton (G)

Protected Patrik Berglund (F) Ryan Reaves (F) Jaden Schwartz (F) Vladimir Sobotka (F) Paul Stastny (F) Alexander Steen (F) Vladimir Tarasenko (F) Jay Bouwmeester (D) Joel Edmundson (D) Alex Pietrangelo (D) Jake Allen (G)

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING

Available Carter Ashton (F) Michael Bournival (F) J.T. Brown (F) Cory Conacher (F) Erik Condra (F) Gabriel Dumont (F) Stefan Fournier (F) Byron Froese (F) Yanni Gourde (F) Mike Halmo (F) Henri Ikonen (F) Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (F) Tye McGinn (F) Greg McKegg (F) Cedric Paquette (F) Tanner Richard (F) Joel Vermin (F) Dylan Blujus (D) Jake Dotchin (D) Jason Garrison (D) Slater Koekkoek (D) Jonathan Racine (D) Andrej Sustr (D) Matt Taormina (D) Luke Witkowski (D) Peter Budaj (G) Kristers Gudlevskis (G) Jaroslav Janus (G) Mike McKenna (G)

Protected Ryan Callahan (F) Tyler Johnson (F) Alex Killorn (F) Nikita Kucherov (F) Vladislav Namestnikov (F) Ondrej Palat (F) Steven Stamkos (F) Braydon Coburn (D) Victor Hedman (D) Anton Stralman (D) Andrei Vasilevskiy (G)

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

Available Brian Boyle (F) Eric Fehr (F) Colin Greening (F) Seth Griffith (F) Teemu Hartikainen (F) Brooks Laich (F) Brendan Leipsic (F) Joffrey Lupul (F) Milan Michalek (F) Kerby Rychel (F) Ben Smith (F) Andrew Campbell (D) Matt Hunwick (D) Alexey Marchenko (D) Martin Marincin (D) Steve Oleksy (D) Roman Polak (D) Antoine Bibeau (G) Curtis McElhinney (G) Garret Sparks (G)

Protected Tyler Bozak (F) Connor Brown (F) Nazem Kadri (F) Leo Komarov (F) Josh Leivo (F) Matt Martin (F) James van Riemsdyk (F) Connor Carrick (D) Jake Gardiner (D) Morgan Rielly (D) Frederik Andersen (G)

VANCOUVER CANUCKS

Available Reid Boucher (F) Michael Chaput (F) Joseph Cramarossa (F) Derek Dorsett (F) Brendan Gaunce (F) Alexandre Grenier (F) Jayson Megna (F) Borna Rendulic (F) Anton Rodin (F) Drew Shore (F) Jack Skille (F) Michael Zalewski (F) Alex Biega (D) Philip Larsen (D) Tom Nilsson (D) Andrey Pedan (D) Luca Sbisa (D) Richard Bachman (G) Ryan Miller (G)

Protected Sven Baertschi (F) Loui Eriksson (F) Markus Granlund (F) Bo Horvat (F) Daniel Sedin (F) Henrik Sedin (F) Brandon Sutter (F) Alexander Edler (D) Erik Gudbranson (D) Christopher Tanev (D) Jacob Markstrom (G)

WASHINGTON CAPITALS

Available Jay Beagle (F) Chris Bourque (F) Paul Carey (F) Brett Connolly (F) Stanislav Galiev (F) Tyler Graovac (F) Garrett Mitchell (F) Liam O’Brien (F) T.J. Oshie (F) Zach Sill (F) Chandler Stephenson (F) Christian Thomas (F) Nathan Walker (F) Justin Williams (F) Daniel Winnik (F) Karl Alzner (D) Taylor Chorney (D) Cody Corbett (D) Darren Dietz (D) Christian Djoos (D) Tom Gilbert (D) Aaron Ness (D) Brooks Orpik (D) Nate Schmidt (D) Kevin Shattenkirk (D) Pheonix Copley (G) Philipp Grubauer (G)

Protected Nicklas Backstrom (F) Andre Burakovsky (F) Lars Eller (F) Marcus Johansson (F) Evgeny Kuznetsov (F) Alex Ovechkin (F) Tom Wilson (F) John Carlson (D) Matt Niskanen (D) Dmitry Orlov (D) Braden Holtby (G)

WINNIPEG JETS

Available Marko Dano (F) Quinton Howden (F) Scott Kosmachuk (F) Tomas Kubalik (F) JC Lipon (F) Shawn Matthias (F) Ryan Olsen (F) Anthony Peluso (F) Chris Thorburn (F) Ben Chiarot (D) Toby Enstrom (D) Brenden Kichton (D) Julian Melchiori (D) Paul Postma (D) Brian Strait (D) Mark Stuart (D) Michael Hutchinson (G) Ondrej Pavelec (G)

Protected Joel Armia (F) Andrew Copp (F) Bryan Little (F) Adam Lowry (F) Mathieu Perreault (F) Mark Scheifele (F) Blake Wheeler (F) Dustin Byfuglien (D) Tyler Myers (D) Jacob Trouba (D) Connor Hellebuyck (G)

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Greg Wyshynski is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter. His book, TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE PUCK, is available on Amazon and wherever books are sold.

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