For those thinking this was a loophole:
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl-on-expansion-d...xempt-1.616726
Quote:
NHL teams received clarification this week closing a perceived loophole in June’s upcoming expansion draft.
Multiple teams inquired with the league about the potential of voluntarily exposing exempt first and second year professional players as a means of perhaps protecting another player who might otherwise have to be exposed.
For example, both Canadiens minor league netminders Zach Fucale and Charlie Lindgren are on Montreal's exempt list. The Canadiens still need to find a goaltender to expose that meets the contractual requirements. Rather than re-sign Al Montoya to a new contract for 2017-18 just to meet the exposure requirements, the Canadiens could have explored possibly choosing to expose one of Fucale or Lindgren instead. Unlike skaters, who have a games played requirement of 40 games this season or 70 over the last two, goaltenders don't have the same requirements and both goalies have the required contract - but they are on the exempt list.
(The above example is purely for illustration purposes only.)
Instead, sources confirmed the NHL notified teams that “exempt players are exempt” for purposes of the expansion draft.
In other words, any first or second year professional cannot be made available to Vegas by his club – no matter whether they’re seen as expendable or not.
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