from Mike Johnston of Sportsnet,

The next couple weeks could be among the busiest in NHL history in terms of the number of significant transactions we might see.

Teams have until Saturday to submit their protection list for the NHL Expansion Draft but the deadline to request that a player waive his no-movement clause was Monday at 5:00 p.m. ET.

A player’s willingness to accept or decline could significantly impact their team’s plans and the plans of the expansion Vegas Golden Knights. Any player that is asked, however, doesn’t have to make a decision until Friday at 5 p.m. ET.

Here’s what we know happened Monday on the NMC front- The Ottawa Senators asked Dion Phaneuf to waive his no-movement clause. It’s unclear at this time whether or not he obliged, but this request had been expected for months....

- The Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators were given an extra day to make their NMC requests since their seasons concluded Sunday night, only the Penguins didn’t wait until the last minute to ask Marc-Andre Fleury to waive his NMC.

In fact, according to Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports, the veteran netminder complied way back in February....

- There had been rumours the Florida Panthers were going to ask Keith Yandle to waive his NMC, but news came out Monday afternoon that indicated otherwise....

more on each of the above...