Here is the complete list of players from which our mock NHL expansion GMs -- Craig Custance and Frank Provenzano -- had to choose.
• To review the lists of protected players, click here for the East and click here for the West.
• To see who they actually chose, head here.
• For analysis and projections of the two new teams, click on this link.
F: Brad Staubitz, Nick Bonino, Patrick Maroon, Zack Stortini, Alexandr Chagodayev, Maxim Rybin, Radoslav Illo
D: Bryan Allen, Mark Fistric, Matt Clark, Kyle Cumiskey, Alex Grant, Nolan Yonkman, Mathieu Carle, Vladimir Korsuov
G: Igor Bobkov
F: Nick Johnson, Daniel Paille, Bobby Robins, Shawn Thornton, Gregory Campbell
D: Adam McQuaid
G: Chad Johnson
F: Matt Ellis, Ville Leino, Cody McCormick, Kevin Porter, John Scott, Patrick Kaleta
D: Drew Bagnall, Nick Crawford, Alexander Sulzer, Henrik Tallinder, Jamie Tardif, Mike Weber
F: Lee Stempniak, Lance Bouma, Paul Byron, Blair Jones, Brian McGrattan, Greg Nemisz, Victor Bobkov, Egor Shastin, Yuri Trubachev, Ruslan Zainullin
D: Chris Breen, Mark Cundari, Kris Russell, Derek Smith, Dmitri Kokorev, Dimitri Riabykin
G: Joey MacDonald, Andrei Medvedev
F: Nicolas Blanchard, Drayson Bowman, Patrick Dwyer, Nathan Gerbe, Aaron Palushaj, Jared Staal, Brett Sutter, Chris Terry, Kevin Westgarth
D: Joni Pitkanen, Brett Bellemore, Matt Corrente, Mark Flood
G: Anton Khudobin, Mike Murphy, Justin Peters
F: Kyle Beach, Brandon Bollig, Brad Winchester, Denis Istomin, Jakub Sindel
D: Johnny Oduya, Theo Peckham, Sheldon Brookbank, Michael Kostka, Ryan Stanton, Kirill Gotovets, Shawn Lalonde, Ivan Vishnevskiy
F: Guillaume Desbiens, John Mitchell, Mark Olver, David Van der Gulik, Bryan Lerg, James Wyman, Luke Walker, Denis Parshin
D: Andre Benoit, Nick Holden, Nate Guenin, Jonas Holos
F: Cody Bass, Jared Boll, Blake Comeau, Ryan Craig, Spencer Machacek, Jack Skille
D: Patrick McNeill, Nikita Nikitin, Frederic St. Denis
G: Curtis McElhinney, Mike McKenna, Jeremy Smith
F: Luke Gazdic, Tristan King, Travis Morin, Chris Mueller, Toby Petersen, Francis Wathier, Colton Sceviour, Ryan Garbutt, Antoine Roussel, Ruslan Bernikov, Evgeny Federov, Kirill Sidorenko, Alexei Tereschenko, Alexei Timkin, Perttu Lindgren
D: Stephane Robidas, Aaron Rome
G: Dan Ellis
F: Todd Bertuzzi, Willem Coetzee, Patrick Eaves, Cory Emmerton, Drew Miller, Mikael Samuelsson, Jordin Tootoo
F: Ryan Smyth, Ben Eager, Ryan Hamilton, Alexander Bumagin, Mishail Joukov, Evgeny Muratov
D: Corey Potter, Denis Grebeshkov, Ivan Koltsov
G: Jason LaBarbera, Richard Bachman
F: Bobby Butler, Scott Gomez, Philippe Lefebvre, Jonathan Matsumoto, Steven Pinizzotto, Jesse Winchester
D: Mike Caruso, Matt Gilroy, Mike Mottau, Colby Robak, Eric Selleck
F: Brandon Kozun, Jordan Nolan, Trevor Lewis, Colin Fraser, Daniel Carcillo, Marc Andre Cliche, Justin Azevedo, Bud Holloway, Oscar Moller, Igor Melyakov, Andrei Shefer
D: Andrew Bodnarchuk, Andrew Campbell, Keaton Ellerby, Jeff Schultz, Alec Martinez, Matt Greene, Mikhail Lyubushin
G: Ben Scrivens
F: Jacob Dowell, Stephane Veilleux, Chad Rau, Carson McMillan, Mike Rupp, Zenon Konopka, Cody Almond, Mikko Lehtonen, Julian Walker
D: Nate Prosser, Steven Kampfer, Brian Connelly, Tyler Cuma, Grigory Misharin, Mikhail Tyulyapkin
G: Josh Harding
Montreal Canadiens
F: Mike Blunden, Rene Bourque, George Parros, Martin St. Pierre, Nick Tarnasky, Gabriel Dumont
G: N/A
F: Kevin Henderson, Paul Gaustad, Rich Clune, Nick Spaling, Konstantin Glazachev, Grigory Shafigulin, Sergei Soin
D: Victor Bartley, Joe Piskula, Bryan Rodney, Denis Kulyash, Anton Lavrentiev
G: Carter Hutton, Rustam Sidikov
F: Krys Barch, Steve Bernier, Ryan Carter, Stephen Gionta, Cam Janssen, Ivan Khomutov, Tom Sestito, Rostislav Olesz, Rod Pelley, Mattias Tedenby
D: Anton Volchenkov, Harry Young
F: Eric Boulton, Colin McDonald, Peter Regin
F: Arron Asham, Derek Dorsett, Michael Haley, Brandon Mashinter, Dominic Moore, Darroll Powe
D: Stu Bickel, Justin Falk, Aaron Johnson, Anton Stralman, Danny Syvret
G: Martin Biron, Cameron Talbot
F: Erik Condra, Corey Cowick, Zack Smith, Dave Dziurzynski, Matt Kassian, Mike Hoffman
F: Adam Hall, Ben Holmstrom, Kris Newbury, Zac Rinaldo
D: Bruno Gervais, Erik Gustafsson, Tyler Hostetter, Andrej Meszaros, Marc-Andre Bourdon, Nicklas Grossmann
F: Robert Klinkhammer, Brandon McMillan, Paul Bissonnette, Tim Kennedy, Brandon Yip, Brett MacLean, Viktor Tikhonov, Anton Krysanov, Dmitri Pestunov, Alexander Tatarinov
D: Mathieu Brodeur, Derek Morris, David Rundblad, Chris Summers, Rostislav Klesla, Jonas Ahnelov, Maxim Goncharov, Alexei Litvinenko, Igor Samoilov
F: Chris Conner, Matt D'Agostini, Nick Drazenovic, Andrew Ebbett, Tanner Glass, Steve MacIntyre, Jussi Jokinen
D: Robert Bortuzzo, Brendan Mikkelson, Deryk Engelland
G: Marc-Andre Fleury, Jeff Zatkoff
F: Bracken Kearns, John McCarthy, James Sheppard, Matt Pelech, Andrew Desjardins, Adam Burish
D: Adam Comrie, Rob Davison, Jason Demers, Scott Hannan, Nicholas Petrecki
F: Christian Hanson, Keith Aucoin, Alex Bolduc, Tyler Shattock, Ryan Reaves, Chris Porter, Mark Mancari, Adam Cracknell, Evgeny Grachev, Philip McCrae, Jori Lehtera, Viktor Alexandrov, Dmitry Semin, Evgeny Skachkov
D: Ian Cole, Jordan Leopold, Taylor Chorney, Jonas Junland, Andrei Pervyshin
G: Jaroslav Halak, Brian Elliott
D: Keith Aulie, Mark Barberio, Radko Gudas, Brian Lee, Matt Taormina
G: Riku Helenius, Cedric Desjardins, Anders Lindback
F: Troy Bodie, Nikolai Kulemin, Fraser McLaren, Colton Orr, Trevor Smith
D: T.J. Brennan, Mark Fraser, John-Michael Liles, Kevin Marshall
G: Drew MacIntyre, James Reimer
F: David Booth, Benn Ferriero, Zach Hamill, Pascal Pelletier, Colin Stuart, Mike Santorelli, Anton Rodin, Wiliam Sweatt
D: Andrew Alberts, Alex Biega, Patrick Mullen, Yann Sauve, Yannick Weber
G: Eddie Lack, Lukas Mensator
F: Jay Beagle, Nicolas Deschamps, Eric Fehr, Mathieu Perreault, Joel Rechlicz, Brandon Segal, Ryan Stoa, Aaron Volpatti
D: Matt Watkins, Casey Wellman, David Kolomatis, Jack Hillen, Tyson Strachan
G: Michal Neuvirth, David Leggio
F: Patrice Cormier, Andrew Gordon, Anthony Peluso, Jerome Samson, Chris Thorburn, Alex Burmistrov, James Wright, Matt Halischuk, Olli Jokinen, Tomas Kubalik, Yuri Bobryshkin, Denis Loginov
D: Adam Pardy, Mark Stuart, Arturs Kulda, Ilya Nikulin
G: Al Montoya, Michael Hutchinson, Edward Pasquale