1976 NHL Expansion Draft
| 1976 NHL Expansion Draft | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Sport | Ice hockey |
| Date(s) | June 3, 1976 |
| Time | 3PM (EST) |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Network(s) | CBC/SRC (Canada) |
| Sponsored by | (Unknown) |
| Overview | |
| Expansion teams | New Jersey Devils |
| Merging teams | Atlanta Thrashers Louisville Cowboys Houston Aeros Kansas Rockies |
The 1976 NHL Expansion Draft was held on June 3, 1976. The draft took place to fill the rosters of the league's three then-new expansion teams for the 1976–77 season, the New Jersey Devils, Dakota Rockies, and the Louisville Cowboys.
Rules
Each expansion team was to select twenty-one players from the established clubs, three players from each of the fourteen existing teams: two goaltenders and nineteen skaters. Thus, a total of 42 players were selected. The existing teams could protect two goalies and twenty-four skaters. First-year professionals were exempt. The existing teams could lose only a maximum of three players, including a maximum of one goaltender.
In the first two rounds, goaltenders were selected; skaters were selected in rounds three through twenty-one. After each of the first, third and subsequent rounds in which any of the established teams lost a player, the team in question moved one unprotected player to their protected list. The draft order was to be determined by two coin tosses: one for the expansion draft and the other for the amateur draft.
Protected lists
- Kansas City
- Alan Littler, Brian Guess, Cody Taylor, David Okalik, Derek Narnia, Drake Tonelli, Elijah Needham, Ethan Tkachuk, Evan Ledda, Finn Radek, Gabriel Nilsson, Hailey Cordner, Henry Welde, Hienos Yemane, Ian Sahlin, James Rzeznik, Keith Messier, Leon Sbisa, Liam Hogan, Ivan Williams, Melissa Dinha, Nick Marquez, Oreo Nahid, Paul Fazaka, Peter Grosdanof, Quinn Fischer, Robert Falk, Rudy Mueller, Ryan Lacroix, Sheldon Lee, Swede Knox, Thomas Öhman, Trevor Agne, Ulster Smith, Valerie Parnell, William Sarnia, Xavier Hughes, Yannick Newell, Zenith Zulueta.
Trivia
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