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Seattle Mock Expansion Draft: Win Now Team Seattle Mock Expansion Draft: Built For Future Whenever it is draft time — be it entry or expansion — the phrase ‘best player available’ becomes cliché. Every team claims to be taking the BPA approach and it would be in Seattle’s best interests to practice what they preach. At the entry draft, BPA means the most skilled player with the highest ceiling regardless of position.

Seattle Mock Expansion Draft: Win Now Team Seattle Mock Expansion Draft: Best Players Available Seattle has a tough act to follow after Vegas took the NHL by storm — and total surprise — with the Golden Knights defying all the odds in advancing to the Stanley Cup Final during their inaugural campaign.

Seattle Mock Expansion Draft: Built For Future Seattle Mock Expansion Draft: Best Players Available What if the Seattle Somethings were joining the NHL for 2019-20 and the expansion draft were held today? That draft is still two seasons away — slated for June 2021, following the 2020-21 campaign — so it is impossible to project the players that will comprise Seattle’s inaugural roster. So much will happen between now and then, to alter the makeup of any lineups compiled in the present.