(07-05-2017, 01:57 PM)adam2552 Wrote:This is what I thought it was going to be, and I think the best solution. As long as Expansion teams are free to talk contract extensions with unprotected upcoming FAs before the draft.Thurs: (7/13): Expansion Protections Announced
Fri: (7/14): Expansion Draft (expansion teams have from now until FA opens to sign any players they chose that have expiring contracts)
Mon (7/17): Free Agency opens
You would have from the expansion draft until free agency to talk extensions and signings with upcoming FAs that you selected in the draft. It wouldn't be fair to give you negotiation rights to every FA out there and there would be zero reason for either of you to select them either.
