The Pens submitted their list of players they are protecting in the NHL expansion draft. Many of the Pens major roll players in their second consecutive run to the Stanley Cup were left unprotected. As expected the Pens did protect goalie Matt Murray after Marc Andre-Fleury waived his limited move clause from his contract. Below is a list of the protected players followed by a list of unprotected players. The Knights have till June 21 to submit their picks to the NHL. The knights picks will be announced at the NHL Draft on Wednesday.
Protected players
- Sidney Crosby (F)
- Patric Hornqvist (F)
- Phil Kessel (F)
- Evgeni Malkin (F)
- Brian Dumoulin (D)
- Kris Letang (D)
- Olli Maatta (D)
- Justin Schultz (D)
- Matt Murray (G)
Available players
- Josh Archibald (F)
- Nick Bonino (F)
- Matt Cullen (F)
- Jean-Sebastien Dea (F)
- Carl Hagelin (F)
- Tom Kuhnhackl (F)
- Chris Kunitz (F)
- Kevin Porter (F)
- Bryan Rust (F)
- Tom Sestito (F)
- Oskar Sundqvist (F)
- Dominik Uher (F)
- Garrett Wilson (F)
- Scott Wilson (F)
- Ian Cole (D)
- Frank Corrado (D)
- Trevor Daley (D)
- Tim Erixon (D)
- Cameron Gaunce (D)
- Ron Hainsey (D)
- Stuart Percy (D)
- Derrick Pouliot (D)
- Chad Ruhwedel (D)
- Mark Streit (D)
- David Warsofsky (D)
- Marc-Andre Fleury (G)