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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Well you would think the NHL would want teams to have to protect NMC players if their goal is to improve the expansion team. Otherwise you will get a team like the Sharks exposing Thornton and Marleau knowing they will be UFA's a month later and allows them to protect two more good players that would have been available to the expansion team. Personally I think GM's hand out NMC much too freely and I think they should lie in the bed they made. They should have to be protected and they should count towards your list.
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I kind of agree but I don't see the NHL doing this as it would impact larger markets the most. I haven't looked it up, but I would wager that large markets have more NMCs due to them being more desirable for UFAs. No way the NHL does anything that hurts the sweetheart teams IMO. It will come down to what teams like NYR, LA, PHI, CHI, etc want. They'll get their way, they always do.