This is how I see it:
I get the rules for this but see ways of exposing it.
The grey area is when you have no intentions of signing a UFA but list him as available anyway.
For example:
My only UFA was Holtby, so let's use him as the example.
I should not have been allowed to post Holtby on the block if I had not intention in signing him. If I did post him on the block but didn't get offers I wanted, I could have then been able to decide to not sign him to a UFA grid and let him go into the batches. If I got a sweet offer for him, I would then sign and flip him after he was signed.
I know there was a rule made or discussed before I came into the league saying you could not trade UFA rights but I think the above example is a way to circumvent that rule.
A quick fix, for this issue at least:
If you've not released a pending UFA and instead posted that UFA on the trade block, saying he was available after being re-signed, that shows intent to resign him and you should be forced to then resign him.
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