Canucks expose Miller, Sbisa; protect Sedins, Horvat

The long-awaited list of which players are and aren’t protected for this week’s NHL Expansion Draft was finally unveiled this morning.

The Vegas Golden Knights, the NHL’s 31st franchise, must pick one player from each of the other 30 teams during Wednesday’s draft. All current NHL franchises are allowed to protect one goalie and either A) seven forwards and three defensemen or B) eight skaters. Of the 30 players the team will select, Vegas must choose at least 14 forwards, nine defensemen, and three goalies.

As per the NHL’s official statement, the Vancouver Canucks opted to go with option A and protected the following players:

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)

This leaves the following players available for Vegas to scoop one. One of these players will be playing in Nevada next season:

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)

Other big, unprotected names include:

Forwards

Anaheim’s Sami Vatanen, Buffalo’s Zach Bogosian, Chicago’s Brian Campbell and Johnny Oduya, Columbus’ Sam Gagner, Dallas’ Dan Hamhuis, Detroit’s Niklas Kronwall, Minnesota’s Matt Dumba, Ottawa’s Marc Methot, Pittsburgh’s Trevor Daley, Washington’s Kevin Shattenkirk and Brooks Orpik, and Winnipeg’s Tobias Enstrom.

Defencemen

Arizona’s Shane Doan, former Spruce King and current Edmonton Oiler Jujhar Khaira, Florida’s Jonathan Marchessault, LA’s Marian Gaborik and Dustin Brown, Minnesota’s Eric Staal, Montreal’s Alexander Radulov, Nashville’s James Neal, Ottawa’s Bobby Ryan and Alexandre Burrows, Pittsburgh’s Chris Kunitz, San Jose’s Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, and Washington’s T.J. Oshie.

Goalies

Calgary’s Brian Elliott, Colorado’s Calvin Pickard, Dallas’ Antii Niemi and Kari Lehtonen, Florida’s Roberto Luongo, New York Islanders’ Jaroslav Halak, New York Rangers’ Antti Raanta, and Pittsburgh’s Marc-Andre Fleury.

Vegas has until 7 AM PT Wednesday to submit its picks, which will be announced during the 2017 NHL Awards and NHL Expansion Draft at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada later that night