except that you already can't protect enough of your young FWDS. The idea is that trade a 2nd or someone else who is exposed (Dano) who's being underutilized, for a D. Then DON'T protect Pouliot.
Expansion goes the same really:
Protect Buff, Enstrom Myers, Trouba, Scheif, Wheeler, Little, Perrault, Helley
or if Enstrom waives NMC then- Buff, Myers, Trouba, Scheif, Little, Wheeler, Perrault, Lowry, Armia, Copp
Leaving available:
Scenario A) Lowry, Armia, Copp Pouliot
Scenario B) Pouliot Enstrom, Mathias,
Scenario A) we're no different then where we're at now
Scenario B) Has the added flavor that if they take Pouliot, we essentially decided for vegas that it was Dano we lost. If we traded a pick for Pouliot, then all we lost was that pick if he's selected. It's actually a brilliant strategy