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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
The expansion team(s) that pay $500M in expansion fees benefit from players with NMCs being protected. It uses up protection slots on existing rosters and should allow other players to be exposed that otherwise would not have been.
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This is everything. If the NHL truly is able to get someone to pony up $500 million you have to believe expansion draft rules are going to be more favorable for the new teams than anything we have ever seen. If the biggest risk is the Flames have to expose a guy like Frolik, we should be so lucky. A team full of $4.2 million Frolik's is going to be over the cap and not winning anything. It is prospects that I am much more nervous about losing.