Now, the list of players the Golden Knights can choose from will be available to the public, although the exact details of when and where this information will be released won't be available until a later date.
"After a lot of internal discussion following the General Managers meeting, we determined it would be best to disclose those lists publicly," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told NHL.com's Dan Rosen. "One of our guiding principles from the start of this process was to prioritize transparency, and certainly here, keeping the lists private would not have promoted that particular objective.
"Also, while I think the Managers on balance favoured maintaining the privacy of the process, I can't say I felt anyone expressed particularly strong views on the subject one way or another. So, in the end, we ran it by the Players' Association and it ultimately became a pretty easy decision."
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The Golden Knights' staff is expected to receive other teams' lists on June 18, and have until June 21 to select one player (30 total) from every other team.
Teams have the option of protecting either seven forwards, three defensemen and one goalie, or eight skaters of any position and one goalie.
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