Foley: NHL will televise Golden Knights' expansion draft

Vegas does it in style.

Bill Foley, owner of the Vegas Golden Knights, the NHL's newest franchise, confirmed to Yahoo's Josh Cooper that the summer expansion draft will be a made-for-TV special.

"We're going to be integrated into the NHL awards ceremony so it's going to be on live national TV," Foley said. "They're going to do an NHL award and then they're going to cut back to us and we're going to announce a couple of expansion drafts and have some jumbotron video of the guys we're drafting."

The NHL Awards have been in Sin City since 2009, usually held at a world-class hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. A venue for this year's ceremony in June has not yet been named, but if it were up to the Golden Knights owner, the team's new home, T-Mobile Arena, could play the perfect host.

"We have 88 days until the expansion draft and to do our announcement, that's going to be a gigantic event for us in Las Vegas at (T-Mobile Arena)," Foley added. "We're going to try to fill the arena to the extent we can fill every seat so people can really see what's going on with the expansion draft."

As for the Golden Knights, general manager George McPhee will soon have his chance to pore over each team's protection list, due June 17. The Golden Knights will submit their chosen players June 20, with selections announced the following day, evidently before a television audience.

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Each team can protect either seven forwards, three defensemen, and one goalie, or eight skaters of any combination and a goalie.

Odds are the Golden Knights will be able to pick off a few quality players, which bodes well for Foley's goal of a Stanley Cup in six years.