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Maybe we don't have to have a real one, as I'm not a fan of making teams acquire players they don't want. They could just sign any random free agent to a one year deal to get them to the cap floor. That doesn't add anything to the league. The NHL has the salary floor set to 16m below the cap. Maybe we could just use that 16m for equation purposes and make that the largest free cap allowed when figuring it out. Wonder where that would set our cap for next year???
My suggestion was that only the NHL 1st Rounders not be available for us.Every team would still have the option of picking up 3 of their parent team's NHL draftees, drafted in round 2 through 7 in the NHL draft.Some teams might have three 2nd rounders, others might have a 2nd rounder and then a 5th and 6th or something like that. But to your point, there would still be 3 players added each year "for free" to the minors for each team, plus 3 draft picks if they don't trade them away - 1 of which will be an NHL 1st rounder; 2 of which will be 1st rounders if the team in DNHL finishes 11th or worse (2nd round would be picks 21 and up, so 21-30 are still in the real NHL draft 1st round).
I think this approach would just shift more of the value to the teams that keep their draft picks and takes some value from teams that rely more on the draft keepers to fill up there minors. Honestly with only 12 player minors any player that isn't drafted in the 1st round is hard to keep around until they are much closer to the NHL. With this arrangment we are just going to spend the 1st round and half of the 2nd round of the supplemental draft picking players from the first round of the rookie draft and having less picks to use on those players that have fallen thru the cracks from the past drafts and are closer to the NHL. This will just lead to more quality players ending up in FA where they need to play 40 games before they can be signed. Pushing up the contract values they get signed for.
I'm not so sure on this point...I know personally being a team that is in the hunt for a playoff position, this year in the Supp draft I passed on the NHL draft's picks 10+ in the 1st round in favour of players who were decent in the AHL and I was hoping that would make an impact in the NHL this year.... Versus waiting for that 18-year old for 2-3 years to become a fantasy asset.Older AHL/college/junior players I took a gamble on who definitely have a lower ceiling than the 2016 NHL draftees, but who might contribute a lot sooner than those 2016 NHL draftees. (By "older" I mean 20-23 years old versus 18 years old).To be honest it is still a strategy I would use for the next couple years while my team is competitive. I don't see a point in my stashing a player who might be in the NHL in 2-4 years putting up 1.5 fanpts per game, when I could have that same player putting up 1.4 fanpts per game this season or next for me kind of thing.
Some teams will draft based on where they are at in the standings. Contenders may add more immediate impact talent where rebuilding teams may prefer to add higher upside players that are farther away. Having all the first rounders available in the draft will mean that 20 players who would typically be kept as draft keepers will now be going in the draft which will push 20 other players out. You can't argue that it won't.This will just increase the available talent in the FA pool of rookies and more players will get signed during the year after they have played 40 games.
One thing that I just recently thought of is that our extension values in this league are based off of real life contract values. The Real NHL contract values are set up based on a 30 team league (soon to be 31 teams) each spending up to there cap of 73 million. This would come out to a pool of 2.19 Billion dollars as the maximum that can be spent on players (jumping to 2.263 Billion dollars when Vegas is in the league). Our league currently has 20 teams with a cap space of 79.3m per team. This equates to a 1.586 Billion dollar total salary pool. I know that it isn't a fair comparison since we have prospect contracts and prospect extensions which keep some salaries down in our league as well as Defenseman contracts being decreased to 66% of actual contract values. I think it is still important to note that these extension values are being set my a league that has a lot larger pool of money to spend. I think that this may have the effect of inflating the extension values of the best players. I think that over time as more teams re-sign there players and don't let them go to FA that more and more cap space will be used up and it will become more and more valuable in our league. I know that the past couple of years teams are having a harder and harder time of resigning all there FA's.
Honestly with only 12 player minors any player that isn't drafted in the 1st round is hard to keep around until they are much closer to the NHL.