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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Now this is an interesting twist:
Chris Johnston @reporterchris
The NHL expects to open a window where the Las Vegas team can make trades/transactions before expansion draft. That's never happened before.
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never happen before?! Weren't there trades ahead of the 1999 and 2000 expansion drafts where teams could flip assets to the new teams in exchange for their agreement not to select player X?
EDIT: for example:
San Jose traded Jan Caloun, a ninth-round pick (Martin Paroulek) in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, and a conditional pick (Aaron Johnson) in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft to Columbus on June 11, 2000, after the Blue Jackets agreed not to select Evgeni Nabokov.
that was two weeks before the actual expansion draft.