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I don't see an issue with the length of the prospect extension. Most good young players who are superstars stay with there original teams for the first 7-10 years of their contracts. Tavares left the Islanders after being there for 9 years. Sebastian Aho just signed a 5 year extension that locks him up for his first 8 years with the Canes. Matthews signed a 5 year extension. Draisaitl and McDavid signed 8 year extensions. If anything 5 years is on the shorter end of the recent extensions.Attached is a spreadsheet of an analysis I did today. I assumed that each team had 17 starters on there team and 13 roster spots filled with league minimum contracts (500k). I took the total cap space in DNHL in 19/20 (1,740 Million) and subtracted the the minimum contracts off (130 Million) to get the total salary cap space for starters in our league (1,610 Million).I split that 1,610 Million dollars across the top 60 Centers, Left wing, Right wings, Goalies and top 120 Defensemen in the league based on last years overall season fantasy points. The values in bold are a rough estimate of what a player truly is worth in DNHL. Even Kucherov doesn't come close to touching McDavid's NHL value of $12.5m. I think most of the prospect extensions in DNHL are pretty close to actual DNHL values for those players.
That is a solid workup of what DNHL contract extensions could be and if the league wants to move away from using NHL contract values I would be okay with that, but until we do we are attached to the NHL values and it doesn't make sense to have top tier players making so little for so long. At a minimum Seth Jones would not be on my team with either decreasing the extension value or reducing the term getting the player to full FA quicker. Blues probably lose two of Leon Draisaitl, $5.5m (2022-2023), C Aleksander Barkov, $4.2m (2020-2021), C Sean Monahan, $4.8m (2020-2021), or C Dylan Larkin, $3.5m (2022-2023). Canucks are losing two between Kucherov, McAvoy, Scheifele, Kreider, etc. Those players then probably go to rebuilding teams because they have the cap or picks stocked up to trade for/sign them. In my mind it would balance the league out a bit more than it is currently.
but I think if you make the years a sliding scale based on the $$ as a potential solution.$6m+ - 5 years$4 to $5.9m - 4 years$2 to $3.9m - 3 yearssomething like this might be better
Will be interesting to see how long Rob lasts. It's been not even half a year into things so far. I feel like he might be like me and lost patience and start to build up a more competitive team starting next summer.
Just a thought, and it might be bad cause I'm tired.If you want to force more young players out into the market, maybe increasing the minimum prospect contract would help. If it cost $1m instead of $500k to maintain them, for example - perhaps it would force more tough decisions, leaving more players to FA or the Supplemental.Ok... Bedtime.