From what I understand from the announcement, all players have a valid NMC contract on the day of the expansion draft (say June 15, 2017) will have to be protected. Dennis Wideman has a valid NMC contract that expires on June 30, 2017, so he has to be protected even the contract only has 2 weeks remaining.
The NHL doesn't say specifically what the deal is with Wideman's type of expiring NMC contracts yet...
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