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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
I thought someone shared a tweet showing the date when a player can waive the expansion draft... I can’t recall though. But I was under the impression the clause cannot be waived until fairly close to the expansion draft
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I was reading stuff about the Vegas expansion and one of the news stories mentioned that teams couldn't officially ask a player to agree to waive his NMC until January 1, 2017. The latest they could make the request was something like 48 hours before the lists had to be submitted.
It makes sense that the option is open prior to the trade deadline so that players with limited no-trade conditions on their contracts could be traded if necessary if the player refused to waive. We know that was an issue with Fleury the last time around. If he hadn't agreed to waive, the Pens would have likely moved him at the deadline (probably to the Flames) before the expansion draft.
As has been suggested many times already, I think it's highly-likely that Lucic and Treliving have a gentlemen's agreement that he will waive his NMC if asked in 2021, but they can't put it in writing until 2021.