Okay so this is how I thought an expansion draft could work... I tried to make sure that no team has to lose more than a few assets and that the strong teams have to give up slightly more than the weak ones, but not too much.

- 12 round expansion draft, so on average every existing team would lose two assets
- Players with 52 SHL games or less are automatically protected (lower number for goalies, like 6-10 I'd say)
- Each team gets to protect a certain number of players, the exact numbers are subject to change but I was thinking 1 goalie, 4 defensemen and 8 forwards
- Each teams 2nd round picks in the two upcoming drafts are also available in the expansion draft. A team can chose to protect 2nd round picks as well, but they have to give up two player protections per pick.
- No team can lose more than two players and three assets in total (like two players and a pick)

I think this would make for a fair system. Weaker teams would probably be able to protect most or all of their actives whereas deep teams might have to leave a few good players unprotected, but they can't lose more than two of them. The second rounders serve as an element to balance things out and would face weaker teams with an interesting decision when they have to decide if they rather give up an early 2nd or leave a decent player or two unprotected.