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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'm not a lawyer but surely in a contract there would be stipulations regarding the NMC and if the wording of the contract does not include expansion draft I fail to see how the NHLPA would have a case. At the very least it would have to be on a contract to contract basis as it's possible some players contracts do in fact have expansion draft included in their NMC.
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Perhaps they could still be eligible for the draft, but the player would have to waive their clause to move. So it would be a big risk to draft a player with a NMC/NTC, but it could also be a big risk to leave them exposed (if they are players you want to keep).
Could be interesting.