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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
He's a UFA, they can sign him and then they still get to select another one of our unprotected players.
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Not if they sign him before the expansion draft in the 48hr window.
http://www.tsn.ca/concerns-about-nhl...merge-1.609388
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Specifically, GMs worry that Vegas could take advantage of the 48-hour window before the expansion draft in June to quietly agree to terms on a deal with a pending unrestricted free agent, then wait until July 1 to sign him, so as to pluck another player off a team's roster in the expansion draft.
This would circumvent the rule that if a team loses a free agent to Vegas in that 48-hour free-agent-signing window, it cannot lose another player in the expansion draft. Some GMs worry that veteran GM George McPhee, who wasn't born yesterday, would take advantage of the situation.
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