1. Protected and Exposed Players

Each team will be allowed to protect:

7 Forwards, 4 Defense men and 1 Goaltender

OR

10  players


2. Expansion Draft Rules

The two expansion teams will take turns drafting in snake draft order for 12 total picks.
Each current team will be designated to lose one (1) player from their roster to an expansion team.
If a GM has a player in the SMJHL, they must take their player on the 6th and final round.
If a Co-GM has a player in the SMJHL, they must be taken in the second round.
If a SMJHL team has a player that will be lost via a GM position, that team will be exempt from exposing other players in the draft.
When an expansion teams turns comes up to draft, they may choose to draft from any current teams roster who has not yet lost a player to expansion
Once a team loses a player to expansion, they cannot lose another and are removed from the rest of the expansion draft.

3. Draft Lotto Rules

Expansion teams will receive an average number of balls based on the number the other lotto teams receive.
Expansion teams will draft in the #3 and #4 OA spot in the first round unless they win the lottery.

4. S61 Draft Rules

Expansion teams will draft in the #3 and #4 OA spot in the first round unless they win the draft lottery and move up to #1 OA
Expansion teams will then draft in the 9th and 10th positions from the bottom of the draft (IE. positions 23 & 24 in the 2nd round, 37 & 38 in the 3rd, and so on)

5. Other Info


GMs must have a workable list of protected players submitted to HO by no later than July 23rd 11:59pm