Every year after the NHL entry draft each team can choose to keep up to 3 players that their actual NHL team drafts on a yearly basis. In this way we continuously inject prospects from the actual NHL teams. This will help to keep a hometown feel to our fantasy teams over the years. Teams may only keep players drafted by their team in the NHL entry draft; foreign players and unprotected prospects will be handled via the supplemental draft. If a player is traded to another team during the draft he is considered drafted by the team he ends up with by the end of the draft. So if Montreal picks a player then trades him during the draft, that player cannot be kept by Montreal, but can be kept by the team he is traded to.
In addition to the 3 entry draft keepers there will be a 3 round supplemental draft where all unkept prospects, prospects drafted by contracted teams, and all other prospect eligible (less than 40GP) players, even those drafted in previous years, can be drafted. A player who goes undrafted and unsigned in his first eligible draft year may not be drafted in the Supplemental until they are drafted or signed by an NHL franchise.
***Important, regarding trading picks: The only trade-able draft picks are picks from the 3 round supplemental draft. You cannot trade your keeper picks.***
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