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Originally Posted by Fry
I don't get it, wideman's contract ends with the 2016/2017 season and the expansion team starts 2017/2018 why would Calgary need to protect him?
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Every expansion draft since 1991 has happened in the last week of June. Wideman's contract will expire at midnight June 30th, 2017. If the expansion draft is, say the 27th of June, he will still be under contract with the Flames with an NMC and need to be one of our protected players.
One thing that will be interesting is if the expansion draft is before or after the regular draft. It's scheduled for June 23-24th, 2017. The 2016-17 regular season is scheduled to end April 15th, which is 5 days later than this year's season ended.
The last possible day of the Finals this year is June 16th, five days later than that would be the 21st of June, leaving only two days between the potential end of the playoffs and the scheduled draft date and almost certainly not enough time to hold an expansion draft.
They must be planning on holding it after the draft. That seems odd to me, wouldn't the Vegas team want to have their veterans in place before they go to the draft?