Vegas to unveil roster today

June 21, 2017

The Las Vegas Golden Knights have selected their players in their expansion draft, and they will be revealed today at 5 p.m. As a reminder, they had to select one player only from every NHL team.

On Sunday morning, the NHL released each team’s list of protected players.

The Sabres protected the following players:

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

That leaves names like Nicolas Deslauriers, Matt Moulson, William Carrier, Zach Bogosian, Brian Gionta, Anders Nilsson, Linus Ullmark and Josh Gorges unprotected and available for Las Vegas to take.

Players such as Jack Eichel, Sam Reinhart and Alex Nylander were automatically protected.

For a full rundown of how the expansion draft works, click here.

Kevin Freiheit

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