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the draft threads have us doing 7 rounds for prospects and 6 for contraction but our team pages list 7 rounds for both?
I apologize if there’s a waiting list sign up someplace that I didn’t see, but I’d like to be considered.
I know it does not say in the RFA rules, but should we have a limit to how many players can be taken from a single team per year?Real life NHL you never see offer sheets and I've never been in a league that has this feature, so maybe there will not be much activity, but I can see a situation where a team like the Kings in 2-3 years might have 4+ higher end players get nabbed. Draft picks are all well and good, but then they will just be in a similar situation a few years after that.
Interesting point, however, with RFA team always has option to match the winning offer so limiting the number seems a little messy. I don't see how to fairly say you can bid on 4 RFA from 1 team but player 5 is untouchable. Having a lot of RFAs same year I guess is part of game so will simply lead to some tough choices. I'm willing to discuss this further but not sure anything other than allowing all RFA (regardless of number per a team) to enter RFA really makes sense.
Yeah, I might just be over thinking how many offer sheets pour in. I just didn't like the thought of a team that has been rebuilding for a couple years gets to a point where their good drafting ends up with a bunch of RFAs that turn into more draft picks. Not a fun cycle. My thought was to allow all offer sheets that don't involve a 1st round compensation and then cap it at the 1st (2) that would involve a 1st round pick going back to the owner. Any player with 1st round compensation could be paid up to $6.3 million making them at least a top 30 player. Losing more than (2) of those would be rough. The only thing a team could concretely plan for would be to trade away their RFA to avoid it all together. Anything outside of that could not be planned for.
I don't think RFA will be that big of a detriment to the league. Its kind of nice that the young players have to go thru it and you could possibly acquire a player you like. I think every team is likely to have a player or two every year going to RFA.Even if a team has 4 RFA's they might get lucky and have one or two signed to contracts in real life that they can accept and won't go to bidding.And if all your RFA's go to RFA the compensation should likely keep prices down. We have 16 teams in the league so its not like we can all sign a top RFA every year. bottom 5 teams probably won't want to move a top 5 pick in the rookie draft for just anyone so those teams probably won't go past 4.2m. Top teams might be more willing to but they need to have the cap space and picks to do it. If you trade rookie draft picks it impacts your ability to sign RFA's so some teams might not be able to sign a certain range if they don't have the picks.I think you are likely to see RFA's get modest two or three year deals because compensation will keep the prices down and then you'll get to resign the player a few years later. Unless a guy like McDavid comes along and then a team might be willing to sell the farm for him and all bets are off.
