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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Except there is a reason for the PA to take that stand because it also affects guys who's NMC's are expiring but still have a contract for the following season.
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You're missing the point though - it's not about the expiry of the NMC in this situation, it's about the guy being a UFA in 5 days.
There is no restrictions on the amount of rules the Union and League can put into the expansion draft.
They can easily have a rule for players that fall into the circumstances that you mentioned (NMC expires - contract continues) and the group that Wideman falls into (NMC & Contract expire).
They can easily negotiate the rules for each group separately and decide accordingly.
I agree that it's likely that for a player on a valid contract that has a NMC that expires on a certain date that they would then make sure to follow the NMC expiry date that is on the contract but they would never enforce that same rule on a player who becomes a UFA afterwards.
Once again it's not nearly that black and white and the League and Union can agree on any combination of rules and scenarios in this case.