Choosing to protect eight total skaters and a goalie instead of seven forwards, three defensemen and a goalie, the Islanders will hold on to Andrew Ladd, An- ders Lee, John Tavares, Johnny Boychuk, Travis Hamonic, Nick Leddy, Adam Pelech, Ryan Pulock and Thomas Greiss.
That leaves notables Brock Nelson, Ryan Strome and Calvin de Haan unprotected among others, but that doesn’t mean necessarily that center Brock Nelson will be leaving the Islanders.
The expansion Vegas Golden Knights only can select one player from each existing franchise, and as Newsday’s Arthur Staple notes, leaving certain players unprotected maybeasignofadealin place between Vegas and the Isles.
ISLANDERS' UNPROTECTED LIST
Josh Bailey (F)
Steve Bernier (F)
Eric Boulton (F)
Jason Chimera (F)
Casey Cizikas (F)
Cal Clutterbuck (F)
Stephen Gionta (F)
Ben Holmstrom (F)
Bracken Kearns (F)
Nikolay Kulemin (F)
Brock Nelson (F)
Shane Prince (F)
Alan Quine (F)
Ryan Strome (F)
Johan Sundstrom (F)
Calvin de Haan (D)
Matthew Finn (D)
Jesse Graham (D)
Thomas Hickey (D)
Loic Leduc (D)
Scott Mayfield (D)
Dennis Seidenberg (D)
Jean-Francois Berube (G)
Christopher Gibson (G)
Jaroslav Halak (G)
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