The first step to our mock draft is to establish the list of players that will be available for the Las Vegas franchise to draft. To do this, we decided to have a blogger from each team represent their own franchise and select the players that will be protected from the Mock Expansion Draft available player pool. To see the rules which were followed to protect players, hit this link.
Next up, we have the New York Rangers. The Rangers are being represented by Joe Fortunato from BlueshirtBanter.com.
Protected Players
- G – Henrik Lundqvist
- F – Derick Brassard
- F – Mats Zuccarello
- F – Rick Nash
- F – J.T. Miller
- F – Oscar Lindberg
- F – Chris Kreider
- F – Derek Stepan
- F – Jesper Fast
- F – Kevin Hayes
- D – Dylan McIlrath
- D – Kevin Klein
- D – Ryan McDonagh
- D – Keith Yandle
- D – Brady Skjei
The entire list of unprotected players that will be available for Team Lane and Team Pothier to select from can be found here.
To see more team explanations just like this one, check out The Sin Bin Mock Expansion Draft Landing Page.
Special thanks again to Joe Fortunato from BlueshirtBanter.com. Be sure to follow @blueshirtbanter on Twitter, and heck, throw us (@SinBinVegas) a follow too while you’re at it.

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