Minors

[Anthony]

While we're all active talking about the mountain west, has there been any consideration for expanding the minors to 15? Clean number that's half of our pro roster, leaves enough room to allow teams to let some players develop, but still isn't overkill with the amount of minors. With 6 minors players coming in every year (3 through draft, 3 keepers), makes it hard to let guys develop.

Or am I just being picky/greedy?

[Whomp]

While we're all active talking about the mountain west, has there been any consideration for expanding the minors to 15? Clean number that's half of our pro roster, leaves enough room to allow teams to let some players develop, but still isn't overkill with the amount of minors. With 6 minors players coming in every year (3 through draft, 3 keepers), makes it hard to let guys develop.

Or am I just being picky/greedy?

 

[Rob]

It seems like this comes up at least a few times a year.   Though, most recently it has come up as part of other rule discussions, so we might as well devote a thread to this discussion.

I have stood against increasing this roster size from day 1.  I even opposed the increase from 10 to 12.  My primary reasons are 1) I like that it forces you to make very tough roster decisions and 2) increasing roster size takes players out of the FA pool and would take good players out of the draft.

As always, we operate democratically - most of the time - spill your thoughts on this issue here and we'll take a vote on a change if necessary later on.

[Anthony]

It seems like this comes up at least a few times a year.   Though, most recently it has come up as part of other rule discussions, so we might as well devote a thread to this discussion.

I have stood against increasing this roster size from day 1.  I even opposed the increase from 10 to 12.  My primary reasons are 1) I like that it forces you to make very tough roster decisions and 2) increasing roster size takes players out of the FA pool and would take good players out of the draft.

As always, we operate democratically - most of the time - spill your thoughts on this issue here and we'll take a vote on a change if necessary later on.

I understand what you are saying about tough roster decisions, but the decisions will still be tough regardless if it's 12 or 15. I don't know why but proportionally I think half of our pro roster size is the "golden ratio".

I think taking 60 players out of FA is miniscule relative to how many players there are available.

This should help competitive balance in our league as well. My team for example, I had a lot of depth players on my roster that were helping me win some games (Methot, Quincey, Kassian, etc.), but as I got worse I had to dump those guys in favor of prospects, which led to me being less competitive, and good teams picking up those decent depth pieces for cheap. If us bad teams had more space in our minors, we could keep those depth guys and compete more, which should lead to a busier deadline trying to sell those guys, and more teams might be in the playoff race.

[Eric]

Leave as is, if it aint broken dont fix it.

[GypsieDeathBringer]

Maybe have 12 minor spots, but add 3 additional spots dedicated only to goalies since they take 6+ years to make it into the NHL.  That makes it so hard to want to keep them around.  This idea sounds like more of a pain than it's worth, so I throw my hat into just raising it to 15.

[Anthony]

Any update on this now that the year is over? Gypsie brings up a good point about Goalies that we never really discussed.