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Originally Posted by Geeoff
Seattle can still select pending UFA. Remember Vegas drafted Deryk Engelland from us and he was a UFA
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Which is dumb in general, because all it gets them is a short negotiation window before the broader UFA period when the player can simply re-sign with the team he was already with. You have to have some assurances that the player you're selecting actually wants to sign with you, which presumably was the case with Engelland. But that was still a dumb selection because they could have taken someone else, waited a week and a half (or whatever it was) and signed Engelland anyway.