Quote:Originally posted by soulja@Jul 8 2015, 08:40 AM
what happens during an expansion aside from the fact that we have new teams? Do the new players automatically get drafted into the new teams?

park will have to come up with the rules for the expansion draft, whether it's 1 active from each team or whatever the case may be.
those players go into a draft and the 2 expansion teams rotate picks.
and then they enter the regular draft lottery with the other 4 non-playoff teams.

it can take an expansion team a while before they start to become competitive, but we've seen cases where it didn't take very long.
S5 was the Chiefs and Panthers expansion and the S6 Finals was Chiefs vs Panthers.
different times, of course.

S10 was the next expansion with Texas and New England.
Texas made the WCF in S11 and won the Cup in S14.
Took New England 5 seasons to make their first playoffs, but that franchise also had a rough start in terms of management.