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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
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.
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Pending UFAs are eligible to be drafted, they have been taken before. Thus the NMC will indeed matter. Assuming they are going to make that change is nothing short of foolish. Never assume someone will do something they don't have to do.