It happened four years ago for McCrimmon and the Vegas Golden Knights ahead of their expansion draft. That's a really different feeling," said McCrimmon, the current Vegas general manager and assistant GM to George McPhee four years ago. The hockey world is going through Seattle for that period of time after those lists are submitted. Plenty of cap spaceBut one of Seattle's biggest benefits going into the draft is its salary cap space. "The one thing that we think is extremely, extremely valuable in this environment is cap space," Francis said.

Source: CBC News July 17, 2021 23:27 UTC