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Originally Posted by Jay Random
That's right; and they wouldn't wait to sign him after the expansion draft because they wanted him there right away to help the other players settle in.
I don't know if there was anybody else in the NHL, protected or not, who could have done the exact job Engelland did for Vegas at that time.
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So they needed to draft him one week before they could sign him as an UFA? No. There were no legit NHL players with reasonable contracts exposed by the Flames. Selecting a pending UFA seams like a waste of a pick until you see what their options were and the fact that they couldn’t “pass”.
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