Buds Board Keepers League

Teams are allowed to protect either one goaltender, five defensemen, and nine forwards or two goaltenders, three defensemen, and seven forwards.

The old rules were as follows:

For teams protecting only one goaltender, there was no experience requirement for those left unprotected. For teams protecting two goaltenders, each goaltender left unprotected must have appeared in either 10 NHL games in the 1999–2000 season or 25 games in the 1998–99 season and 1999–2000 seasons combined. A goaltender had to be in net for at least 31 minutes in each game for the game to be counted against these totals.
At least one defenceman left unprotected by each team had to have appeared in at least 40 games in the 1999–2000 season or 70 games in the 1998–99 season and 1999–2000 seasons combined. At least two forwards left unprotected by each team had to have met the same requirements.

1st and 2nd year pro players are exempt.

Meant this to be a "who would you protect from your team"

1G: Jimmy Howard

5D: Tyler Myers, Zach Bogosian, Erik Gudbranson, Jake Gardiner, Andrew MacDonald

9F: Sidney Crosby, Steve Stamkos, Cody Hodgson, Claude Giroux, Nikolai Kulemin, Steve Downie, Brandon Prust, Curtis Glencross, Jamie McGinn

Exempt: Jakob Silfverberg, Mark Pysyk, Casey Cizikas, Henrik Samuelsson, Charlie Coyle, Nathan Beaulieu, Oscar Klefbom

I think it means I would be releasing: Jonas Gustavsson, Joe Colborne, Dana Tyrell, Chris Neil & Deryk Engelland

aka the "who should i target in a trade that you don't value" thread.

I'll take a stab at it later.

Also known as something Other than 30 grown men on their periods bitching for a month and a half while nothing happens.

2 G: Jonas Hiller, Victor Fasth

3 D: Drew Doughty, Seth Jones, Ryan Murray

7 F: Jordan Eberle, Jonathan Drouin, Joffrey Lupul, Brayden Schenn, Jakub Voracek, Jaden Schwartz, Kyle Turris

Goalies: Fleury

Forwards: Filpulla, Erat, Booth, Heatley, Rousell, Mueller, Backlund, Perreault, Pirri

D: Suter, Wisniewski, Enstrom, Stralman, Bortuzzo, Cundari

Exempt: Reinhart, Huberdeau, Grigorenko, Johnson

Available: Vokoun, Butler, Desjardins, Daugavins, Byron, Peluso, McCarthy, Street, Wyman, St Denis, Zatkoff

Goalie
Corey Crawford

Defence
Mark Giordano
Brooks Orpik
Francois Beauchemin
Carl Gunnarsson
Kevin Klein

Forwards
Tomas Plekanec
Ryan O'Reilly
TJ Oshie
Chris Kunitz
Pascal Dupuis
Frans Nielsen
Kyle Brodziak
Kyle Okposo
Brandon Sutter

1G: Niemi

5D: Visnovsky, Braun, Butler, Martinez, Murray

9F: Thornton, Desharnais, Horcoff, Grabner, Stalbrrg, Higgins, Wingels, Jones, McLaren

1G: steve mason?

5D:
the buff
Ehroff
D. Hamiliton
J. Petry
That pens kid

9 forwards:
Duchene
Kadri
Ennis
Pomminville
Brouwer
Simmonds
C. Stewart
Bozak
Boedker

I wouldn't keep anyone except Lucic....

Just out of curiousity, but if the NHL does indeed expand next year, is this the procedure we would follow?

I'd think we should follow it

Interesting thought ... we would almost have to.

Yeah, that'd be strange.

I assume there's a max you can take from one team?

One?

Tony wroteCOLONOne?

two new teams, only 30 players between them?

Two? One per team.

I don't have a goalie that meets this categorical need so I cannot participate sorry and I won't protect kipper