1.   Also, under the rules of the draft, teams can protect three more players after each round.

2.   Belfour-bashers, meanwhile, are convinced the team should protect Turek, not the veteran, in June.

3.   Both teams protect the ball very well on offense.

4.   After having a player selected in the first round, each team will protect three more players.

5.   After each of the first two rounds, each team can protect an additional three players.

6.   After the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays take one player from each team in the first round, each team will protect three more.

7.   After the first round, in which a team has one player taken, teams protect three more.

8.   Detroit decided to trade Vernon rather than risk losing him in the National Hockey League waiver draft, in which teams can only protect two goalies.

9.   Each NBA team may protect eight players and can lose only one player to the new teams, Vancouver and Toronto.

10.   Each team can protect only eight players but will lose no more than one.