Maple Leafs have a different path to lose Morgan Rielly

Morgan Rielly's name persists in Toronto Maple Leafs trade rumors this offseason.If a deal doesn't come to fruition, though, they might have a different way to move on from the defenseman in a year's time.There's chatter about a 33rd NHL team joining the league, and that would mean an expansion draft.And an expansion draft means that each team has to protect some players and leave others unprotected.The Athletic's Shayna Goldman broke down what that could look like as part of a new article on Wednesday. And for the Leafs, she leaves Rielly unprotected."Toronto’s dramatic drop-off up front after the big guns makes it an easy decision to go 4-4-1," Goldman writes. "Darren Raddysh, Jake McCabe and Emil Andrae feel like the defenders worth keeping around and that meant asking one of Chris Tane