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Post by brandonmoose on Aug 17, 2023 16:32:13 GMT -7
Not trying to force anyone to trade but it's either 3 open spots or nothing. Nothing is the current option. No one us saying you can't hold and develope players but as part of the 35. If so many superstar potential players are being dropped because of roster constraints why is or FA pool not flowing with high end 20-24 year Olds? Name me the best free agent picked in a draft in the last 10 years? Teams draft how they want if they want to hold there 4th and 5th round picks for 10 years incase they explode into superstars do it in the 35 man roster. Just need even rosters size across the board if someone drafts Vlasic this year in the 5th round to fill in his defense instead of super rated European from the Kazakhstan league that a website says will score 50 goals in 3 years should there protection rights be different a season from now because Kazakhstan kids didn't play in the NHL? Just need to even the playing field.
Once again people are upset they have to drop players but we allowed 23 extra players to hang around this year that's 2 full rounds of drafting if we needed replace. If you only want to drop players when they leave the nhl and age out present a rule that we never drop anyone till they retire. Otherwise 55 in 55 out every year.
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Post by brandonmoose on Aug 17, 2023 17:38:18 GMT -7
Another nice example. Of the 23 players currently on the list 16 are from the 2021. Of the first 16 players in that draft I would say 6 played in our league last season. Of the other 10 I would guess 6 were protected but not eligible because of games played including the number 1 3 4 and 6 pick none of these guys were not eligible for the list. Should the number 1 pick in the draft be harder to protect because he was in the NHL? Does this seem like an even rule? The rule is for darts board fringe players and the odd injury. It creates bloating like this season with 23 extra players on rosters. It weakens our FA pool. And does not treat all players the same.
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Post by Oxford United on Aug 17, 2023 21:34:09 GMT -7
Equality is not an angle is considered. Interesting take.
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Post by Shamrockville on Aug 17, 2023 21:58:00 GMT -7
How does it create bloating, and what do you consider bloating? There are teams on the very opposite spectrums in the league. Some who don't even remotely need to use their rookie slots, for a variety of reasons, and some guys who are struggling to field an even replacement level roster.
I lost 82 games of Landeskog, 57 games of Vrana, 30 games of Nichushkin, 50 games of Wilson, 20 games of Marchment, 30 games of Zub, 20 games of Petry, last year. If I dint have the depth I have, I would have to use replacement players. However, since I had Glass and Dellandrea on my protected list for 3 years,I now have at least some depth to call from. I also have some older veterans I will have to lean on in, Palmieri, Coleman and Bjugstad. I also have to use a protected slot for Bergeron who's now retired, but I am forced to protect him. Those 3 slots can't possibly harm any other teams. But they can allow teams like mine to survive a horrific season of injuries and retirement.
If the #1 pick plays a full season, then yes Id expect him to be worth a protection slot, but if a 3rd-5th player who has good potential to play a regular slot, but will take 3-4 years to get there, then its a wasted slot for those 3-4 years and now you want to simply take those picks away from people after one year simply because there's a couple of extra slots on a team that have to be utilized for specific reasons?
Like I should be forced to dump Glass and Delandrea into the FA pool simply because they aren't fully able to take over a 2nd-3rd line duties for me after one year? That just seems rather punitive. We're already considering reducing the draft to reduce bloat, I don't think we need to add this in to accelerate it to a point where people who GM differently don't enjoy it any more.
Howe much bloat can there possibly be if we had a supplemental draft not even 2 years ago?
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