I don't have a problem with this, personally, as the FA pool is very thin (look at it today).
That, and people in the 3rd round of our draft are scrounging for the most part, or just taking the next available NHL draftee who is a 3rd or 4th rounder.
This is the 3rd round from this year's draft:
Round 3
1) D Nikita Tryamkin
2) RW Seth Griffith
3) G Tyler Parsons
4) G Garret Sparks
5) RW Anton Rodin
6) G Mantas Armalis
7) G Wouter Peeters
8) MISSED
9) G Jared Coreau
10) C Jonathan Dahlen
11) G Evan Smith
12) D Jack Dougherty
13) G Igor Shesterkin
14) LW Kirill Kaprizov
15) RW Tobias Lindberg
16) C Tyler Graovac
17) D Jacob Larsson
18) C Maxim Letunov
19) D Joe Hicketts
20) LW Dmytro Timashov
How many of those players realistically are going to be on a fantasy roster in 2-3 years still? There's a lot of C-level fantasy talent mixed with a lot of hit or miss players with the percentage being like 5% hit, 95% miss.
Tryamkin was a nice pick, but how fantasy relevant will he be? Your Larsson is a nice prospect, but again, how fantasy relevant will he be.
He would be available to be drafted in the next Supp draft in all likelihood, but would he be? Not sure.
I took complete fliers on Griffith and Rodin. They've worked out splendidly for me so far
Given that we get 3 new prospects a year for free, I see a lot of these players being dropped off full minor league rosters as the new draftees come in.
So, again to get back to you point, these are the 20 players that would get pushed out if we were to change something with the draft. I'm not sure we would be missing a lot...
There were only 2 players selected in the 3rd round of our supplemental draft this year that were picked from this years draft rookies. That would be Tyler Parsons (2nd round goalie) and Wouter Peeters (3rd Round Goalie). So your statement that people are just picking the next 3rd or 4th round draftee is completely inaccurate.
Its a little early to judge the 3rd round from this years draft isn't it? We do have drafts from 2 and 3 years ago that we can look at though to see how many players picked in this round will still be on rosters.
2013 Supplemental Draft:
Round 3
1)
PASSED
2)
C Rocco Grimaldi Calgary Dropped Grimaldi, He was selected again in the 2014 draft by St. Louis and eventually dropped.
3)
RW Mark Stone Still with Edmonton and ranked as the 32nd best RW
4)
D Matt Bartkowski Currently an FA
5)
G Reto Berra Currently on Anaheims Roster
6)
SKIPPED
7)
C Jacob de la Rose Currently an FA
8)
G Sami Aittokallio Currently an FA
9)
G Philippe Desrosiers Currently in Edmonton's Minors
10)
RW Matej Stransky Currently an FA
11)
D Frank Corrado Currently In Anaheim Minors
12)
LW Anthony Camara Currently an FA
13)
RW Josh Nichols Currently an FA
14)
G Jaroslav Janus Currently an FA
15)
LW Matt Puempel Currently on Anaheims Roster
16)
C Johan Larsson Currently on Buffalo's Roster
17)
G Connor Hellebuyck Currently on St. Louis Roster
18)
D Shea Theodore Currently Edmonton's Roster
19)
G Juuse Saros Currently on St. Louis Roster 15th Ranked Goalie
20)
LW Pat Maroon Currently on Carolina Roster as 19th Ranked LW
10/18 are still on a teams roster after 3 years. This was actually a pretty good third round in the first supplemental draft and has produced a couple of good wingers and a starting NHL Goalie. There are still a couple of highly regarded prospects as well that could make this look even better in the future.
2014 Supplemental Draft:
Round 3
1)
LW Nicolas Deslauriers Currently on Vancouver's roster
2)
PASS
3)
LW Adam Lowry Currently on Arizona's Roster
4)
RW Oliver Bjorkstrand Currently on Detroit's Roster
5)
C Rocco Grimaldi Currently an FA
6)
C Joakim Nordstrom Currently an FA
7)
G Brandon Halverson Currently in Arizona's Minors
8)
C Victor Rask Currently on Toronto's Roster
9)
PASS
10)
from G Brent Moran Currently on Philadelphia's Minors
11)
D Christian Folin Currently on Carolina's Roster
12)
G Ville Husso Currently in Edmonton's Minors
13)
PASS
14)
F Pavel Buchnevich Currently on Detroit's Roster
15)
C Ryan Spooner Currently on Colorado's Roster
16)
D Alexey Marchenko Currently on Arizona's Roster
17)
LW Vladislav Kamenev Currently in Carolina's Minors
18)
LW Kenny Agostino Currently in Colorado's Minors
19)
D Mike Matheson Currently on St. Louis Roster
20)
D Alex Petrovic Currently on Detroit's Roster
15/17 are still on a roster after 2 years. This years 3rd round doesn't have as much star power as the 2013 3rd round but there are some solid young players across the board. In a year from now some of these players might advance to the same level as Stone and Maroon...
So, again to get back to you point, these are the 20 players that would get pushed out if we were to change something with the draft. I'm not sure we would be missing a lot...
I really disagree with this. This will decrease the amount of prospects that teams are acquiring on cheap prospect contracts which really helps all the teams in our league. I prefer to keep younger players being acquired thru the supplemental draft and draft keepers instead of thru FA.