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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
i bet legally you can't distinguish between an expiring contract and all the rest. Either a contract is valid, or it's not. So if you did that, you'd have to make all NMC exempt, and that would be letting the teams that signed NMCs off really easy in this draft.
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The legal contract is that the player cannot be moved without consent. There's no legal reason the league needs to treat all NMCs the same, as long as they respect the previous statement. Expansion and protection rules are league rules, not law. They could easily say that expiring NMCs are exempt from the draft if they chose to.