Looking back at our league's champs no team has won because of their hometown draft picks. The Ducks teams won because of their own great drafting and smart signings. The Blues/Shooter won because he is awesome at everything and caught on before everyone else that prospect extensions were the best value. The Coyotes/Slack will continue to be great because they must have some kind of sports almanac from the future that told them who the next NHL superstars were going to be.
There has been no one way to win. You just gotta be a good GM and put it all together.
Having said that I am actually in support of removing the 3 home team keepers and expanding our draft. But, I have a bridge idea that maybe lets us keep the hometown feel while getting at my hatred towards the 5 year prospect extension.
What if we:
1. Remove the 3 keeper picks.
2. Expand our normal draft (drafting is the funnest part).
3. Then reduce prospect extensions to 3 years, but if the prospect is on your NHL team you can sign them to 5. That way it gives an incentive to keep players from your NHL team while also not making you beholden to the terrible choices of NHL GMs.
4. Could also do what Snug mentioned and give a discount on signing players on your NHL team.
Yea, I'm not completely unconvinced that both Shooter and SlackJack aren't AI...
What about a compromise like this:
1) 1st round draftees are NOT eligible as Keepers
2) GM's may keep any number of players drafted by their actual team from rounds 2 and beyond (no reason to limit to 3 - it's not like we have space to keep that many anyway)
3) Increase Supp Draft to 4 rounds
4) Adopt Corey's idea of limiting prospect extensions to 3 years, but Keeper's may be extended to 4 or 5.
By taking the 1st rounders out of the Keeper pool, a lot of the disparity we're talking about would disappear. That and we'll make the Supplemental a lot more interesting.
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