Tomorrow is the expansion draft for MLS. The expansion draft happens when new teams join the MLS. This year the Portland Timbers and The Vancouver White Waters will join the league. Each team gets to have eleven players that cannot be drafted. The Sounder's protected players include Kasey Keller, Fredy Montero, and Steve Zakuani. Each team will lose two unprotected players to another team but once a team has lost one player they may add one more to their protected list. One big surprise came when the Swiss striker Blaise Nkufo was not included on the Sounder's protected list after the big commotion of getting him after the World Cup brake.

The Protected Sounders:

Fredy Montero

Steve Zakuani

Jeff Parke

Brad Evans

Mike Fucito

Nate Jaqua

Alvaro Fernandez

James Riley

Kasey Keller

Jhon Kennedy Hurtado

Osvaldo Alonso

Players that can be traded:

Baudet, Julien*

Boss, Terry

Earls, Danny*

Estrada, David

Gonzalez, Leonardo

Graham, Taylor

Ianni, Patrick

Levesque, Roger

Marshall, Tyrone

Montano, Miguel

Nkufo, Blaise

Noonan, Pat

Nyassi, Sanna

Scott, Zacharias

Seamon, Michael

Sturgis, Nathan

Wahl, Tyson

*Were traded for Peter Vagenas from the Colorado Rapids

The End Has Come

The Sounders season ended Sunday with a 3-1 aggregate loss to the Galaxy. In the second game the Sounders played as if they were winning 2-0 not losing. The Galaxy's super star line up pretty much dominated the entire competition with two goals from Edson Buddle and one from Omar Gonzales. By the end of the game the Sounders were desperate and put five forwards in in attempts to score a goal. A goal finally came from Steve Zakauni in the the 86th minute but it wasn't enough. A lot of credit has to go to the British football star David Beckham who had assisted both goals in the second game. The Sounders were disappointed hoping to have mad all to way to Toronto on November 21.