my weiner dog would activate it once by accident and then avoid it forever . <| sep |> Ah , okay . Thanks for the response ! I appreciate it a lot . Also , do we receive anything for the players we lose in the expansion ? I ' m guessing they would just be draft picks . Feel free to ignore this part , it ' s mostly random musingsfor my own referenceAssuming no tradesbuyouts occur , and with our current roster , that means a possible outcome is something like this Girardi 1 D , Staal 2 D , Nash 1 F , and Hank 1 G . I feel like the more obvious keeps are Step 2 F , Zbad 3 F , McDonagh 3 D . I think Hayes is showing himself to be a lockin , especially as a centreman 4 F . I guess we would probably end up choosing the 7 F 3 D 1 G option . If I could , I ' d try to keep J . T . Miller , Zucc , Kreider , though admittedly , I have a weird unsettling feeling about these last three I don ' t want it to happen but you never know what management is thinking . It would seem pointless to buyout G if it ' s for the sake of the expansion draft then . Because if the alternative option is 8 skaters , that would be a greater disadvantage . Caprelief on the other hand , fine . Grabner is an interesting case . Can ' t help but wonder if he ' s on a hotstreakseason or if he has turned a new leaf with the team plus he has shown to have great seasons before . I wonder if we could extend a current player but then expose them . That would seem kind of cruel but with the forwards we have , that would be the best outcome over losing some of the aforementioned for a potentially lesser value eg . what if it ' s a pretty shitty draft pick . Or , we end up picking someone up at the trade deadline who has a contract that goes into 201718 . In any case , it just makes me hope that everything else on the table is more appealing than what we offer .