NHL Expansion Draft

When: Friday, 11 a.m. PDT in Buffalo, N.Y.

Procedure: The expansion Nashville Predators will select three goaltenders, eight defensemen, 13 forwards and two others at any position (most likely they will be goalies) for a total of 26 players. They can take only one player from each of the existing 26 teams.

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* Forwards--Dan Bylsma, Russ Courtnall, Ray Ferraro, Craig Johnson, Nathan LaFayette, Sandy Moger, Jeff Shevalier, Jukka Tiilikainen*, Tomas Vlasak *, Roman Vopat, Magnus Wernblom *, Vitali Yachmenev.

* Defensemen--Ruslan Batyrshin, Doug Bodger, Philippe Boucher, Gary Galley, Jere Karalahti *, Jaroslav Modry, Martin Strback *, Kimmo Timonen*, Mark Visheau, Jan Vopat, Doug Zmolek.

* Goalie--Frederic Chabot.

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* Forwards--Shawn Antoski, Ted Drury, Peter Leboutillier, Eric Lecompte, Tommi Miettinen *, Richard Park, Craig Reichert, Tomas Sandstrom, Brent Severyn, Jeremy Stevenson, Kevin Todd, Bob Wren, Scott Young.

* Defensemen--Drew Bannister, Doug Houda, Nikolai Tsulygin.

Goalie--Mikhail Shtalenkov.

*--unsigned draft choice playing in Europe