Back from holiday so plan on finishing up the rollout of the 2019-20 NHLX project database in the next few weeks. It's a pretty massive and universal update that includes feedback from the current season for major leagues and prospects and all the "extra" fixings the X database brings - key of course being the 36-team NHL setup and expansion. For those uninitiated with the project (and all the variations) over the years - it's what I would call a personal sandbox to play with the capabilities of the game and give users a simming experience firmly grounded in reality but with interesting new scenarios to play out.
That said, here's a sneak peak of the expansion draft setup as I ran it this weekend...this may of course be tweaked by the time the official rollout happens as real world performances/values and team depth charts fluctuate but it will give you a good idea of how the expansion teams are shaping up. I'll go over the full rules I used for the draft with the rollout but I did let Seattle do it's own draft first by itself and then the other 4 teams participated in a round-robin format of picking in a separate draft. Since Seattle is of course actually happening I wanted to stock them a little better.
In my test sims, Seattle has been performing pretty well, usually around 8-12 spots in the Western Conference, occasionally making the playoffs while the other 4 clubs tend to vary but they still often finish at or above teams like Ottawa, Minnesota and LA.
If you want to try the DB now, PM me...I'm not ready to release it publicly but I'll upload where it stands now for trial for people who are interested (along with all the graphics of course).