Now that the regular season is over, this would be my protection list:
7 forwards:
ROR
Schenn
Thomas
Kyrou
Perron
Schwartz, assuming re-signed before ED
Tarasenko (man, this is a tough choice) - while I am not philosophically averse to exposing him, someone made the point about how it would be received by him if we did. And I hate to agree, but I do. He's most definitely declining. But, man, it would be an emotional gut punch for me if he gets it back in Seattle.
Exposed: Sunny, Barbie, Blais, Sanford, Clifford, etc. Sunny's a tough one to expose, but with his injury, could he be a declining asset? Unless DA takes my advice, the odds are SEA's selection comes below, anyway.
3 D:
Parayko
Faulk
Dunn - going against the grain. Similar to what I said about Vladi, it'll probably be a gut punch to Krug that he's exposed. But if we want to keep Dunn, this is what has to be done. Dare them to take a big contract from us. (What would REALLY be cutthroat would be exposing both Vlad and Krug and protecting cheaper assets.)
Exposed: Krug, Scandella, Bortz, Mikkola, Walman, etc.
And then Binner.
If I were SEA and this were our list, I'd probably draft Sunny.
Pick it apart, people.