I'm inching closer to the exciting expansion draft that will give the Millionaires a full team!
Currently, each of the four existing teams has the rights to 13 players (including the guys who were just selected in the entry draft earlier this week). For Season 4, I'm setting the active roster cap at 10 players, so the Millionaires will need to obtain nine guys in this expansion draft -- six forwards and three defensemen to join the one goaltender who is already on their roster. We'll follow the process below:
- Each existing team must expose four players.
- Teams must expose at least one "pure" defenseman (someone who has played at least 80% of his games on defense) and at least three players who are eligible as forwards (any or all of whom can also be eligible as defensemen).
- From these lists of unprotected players, the Millionaires will select three players from each team.
- The Millionaires will conclude the expansion draft with 13 players (12 selected in the expansion draft and one selected earlier during the entry draft).
- The Millionaires will evaluate their talent, decide on which players to keep, and then cut players until they are down to 10 men on their roster.
- Players who are cut become free agents.
At this point, the expansion draft is over and any subsequent player movement would be the result of trades or free agent signings. Free agents will be handled using the process below:
- Prior to the start of Season 4, or at any point during Season 4, any team that has fewer than 10 players on its active roster (due to injury or due to players being cut for poor performance) has the option to sign a free agent.
- A team with an open roster spot may sign any free agent, but first all teams that had a worse regular-season record in Season 3 must be given the opportunity to sign that player. (Those teams may cut a player to open a roster spot if needed.)
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