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Originally Posted by Flamescuprun2018
I cant imagine Las Vegas taking any unsigned pending UFAs without having signed them by June 21. Too risky to lose for nothing on July 1.
Are we sure they are even allowed to select an unsigned UFA? I thought they had to sign them by June 21. That player would then count as pick at expansion from that team.
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well, this is the qoute from that tsn article i linked:
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.
so it appears that they can, but teams who lose a UFA are no longer exposed to the expansion draft...
i'm no expert... this article was from the beginning of november