For example here is the Flyers depth chart
In game the players available were:
Defenseman
Samuel Morin
Philippe Myers
Nate Schmidt
Forwards
Nicolas Aube Kubel
Justin Bailey
Cole Bardreau
Michael Bunting
Sean Courtier
Tyrell Goulbourne
Ryan Hartman
Charles Hudon
Travis Konecny
Scott Laughton
Oskar Lindblom
Gustav Nyqvist
Jakob Voracek
Mikhail Vorobyov
Casey Wellman
James Van Riemsdyk
Some observations:
- No goalies made available
- All but 1 of top five RW available
- 2 of the top players on the depth chart (at center and at rw) made available
- Even if notable 1st and 2nd year pros were not exempt and had to be protected (Hoglander, Farabee, Frost, O'brien, Lavoie) Assumed protected list (adding Patrick, Sanheim, Provorov, Gost) would be at nine.