from Frank Seravalli of TSN,

As enticing as a $17 million check would be for each of the NHL’s 30 owners in exchange for inviting a new city to join their exclusive fraternity, the deliberation to expand Quebec City and/or Las Vegas is more nuanced than that.

The question on the mind of most inside Monday’s Board of Governors meeting was: How would expansion affect my team?

Long before commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL’s executive committee can even pose a vote to the full Board of Governors on expansion, a bevy of details must be sorted out, starting with the format of an expansion draft.

No such deliberations took place at the scenic Inn at Spanish Bay on Monday. The league's presentation on expansion took up 15 to 20 minutes of the two-hour full board meeting, according to Bettman, and did not include “substantive discussions of those issues.”

“There are a myriad (of issues), and within that are a lot of sub-issues that have to be addressed,” Bettman said. “For example: When? What will be the terms of the expansion draft? What would be the terms of an expansion draft if it’s one team or if it’s two teams? What will be the role or the position in the entry draft?”

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from Damien Cox of Sportsnet,