BlueKross Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 Teams have dressed 18 skaters and two goalies per game since the 1982-83 season when the game roster expanded to 20, well before these most recent expansion drafts. And in those days, they carried multiple spare players as well. 23 player rosters have been around for quite a while. They exposed eight then, they're not dropping to two or three now. That makes 5 unprotected according to my count not eight. Today we can protect 23. Even though the roster size was 20, they had the expansion draft followed by the waiver draft every year back then. In reality, they could only protect what wasn't exposed to the waiver draft and build their teams accordingly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 That makes 5 unprotected according to my count not eight. Today we can protect 23. Even though the roster size was 20, they had the expansion draft followed by the waiver draft every year back then. In reality, they could only protect what wasn't exposed to the waiver draft and build their teams accordingly The game roster was 20 back then, the full roster was higher than that, either 22 or 23. Here's the list of protected/unprotected players from the 1999 expansion draft. Note that Montreal had 20 players unprotected (and that wasn't even close to being the highest number of unprotectees). http://historicalhockey.blogspot.ca/2014/10/1999-nhl-expansion-draft.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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