Over two days, they selected three players at that position.

"We haven't become one of the big guys who can select players, just make a call and they come," he said.

They were not allowed to select players from their own cities.

Both countries select 6 players to play for them in this competition.

No team can select more than two players in the draft.

The expansion teams must select at least 30 players, but no more than 42.

Each team must select four players from their area.

The two clubs will select players made available by the 10 existing teams.

Steinberg said that earlier in his career he tried to select players on the basis of need.

Next year with Houston, we are going to have 32 teams selecting players instead of 31.