The NHL announced updated expansion draft rules on Thursday, and it just made things more interesting for the Avs.
First of all, hopefully everyone is aware of what the Avs need to do to protect the players they want to. If not, it really comes down to one thing, getting Francois Beauchemin to waive his no-movement clause (NMC), or buy him out of his contract.
Luckily for the Avs, the way they can do that just became more clear cut. I’ll run through the updated rules in a second. However, first keep in mind that regardless of these updated stipulations, the Avs may be unable to convince Beauch to waive his NMC.