Expansion GMs Announcement and Details

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If free agency starts before the draft, wouldn't that change protections? Teams would have to sign a guy, then protect him and leave another player unprotected.

I think I prefer just changing it to this

If players contract expires at the end of S1 they are still eligible to be placed in the expansion draft. The expansion team that chooses them will be allowed to negotiate a contract before free agency and if a deal is not agreed upon the team will have the right to match any accepted free agency offer for that player. If the expansion team matches a contract the player has agreed to with another team the expansion team gets the player with the agreed upon contract.

Expansion GMs would know the risk if they take one of these guys, but would still get time to negotiate a deal before the rest of the league