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I don't know if I'm too big on increasing the minimum base. If we do decide to do it though maybe its best to just use 500k increments for contracts with the minimum being 500k.
I am ok with 500K, I like that it's an easy number.
I still dont see how this makes the league better. I understand the math and your reasoning , I just don't agree with it. My team for example, I have a total of 6 players at the league min of .2 million. of those 6, only 4 are playing regular nhl mins. Of those 4, I had to sit on 2 of them for an entire year for them to start playing. Of those 6 there are several that i had originally had to bid higher to get them, and just re-upped lower because they didnt play last year. For every player I have on my team at .2 I probably bought out another player. The teams you are going to hurt with this rule are the teams attempting to rebuild a very poorly managed franchise or some of the teams that really do a lot of homework to try and find hidden gems. My opinion is really who cares if they churn a few players trying to find that diamond in the rough. With the increase to MiLR spots, those players will be even fewer. Really, how often do we see a player go for the min salary in this league? I just see this as a non-issue for a league that has already had more changes in the last 2 seasons than a teenage girl turning into a woman.
Dead in the water idea or still open for discussion? Just wondering for next yr.
I'm against increasing the minimum salary. I'm against it for a couple main reasons. We have a 30 man roster instead of 23 man roster, yet we have the same cap as the NHL with 7 more roster spots to fill. Some teams have trouble adhering to the cap and they have less spaces to fill. Also our minor league setup is causing me not to like this idea. They are players that reach 40 games and are yet to be full-time NHL players, but once they reach 40 games its sign them or lose them. To raise the minimum contract cost would increase the cost of working/waiting on project players. If players are getting signed to a mimimum contract during FA, then it means 29 other teams are letting a player go for such a low cost, so you can bid to win the player or just to increase the cost of the contract. If a GM is able to sign a surprise gem at a league minimum 0.2m, kudos to them. They get a valuable asset at a cheap cost, and it helps speed up rebuilds for dedicated GMs in my opinion. These low cost signings can be used to trade to a team that needs to shed cap.