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I say add 2 more spots, but make them long term minor spots, so you can use them, but once a player goes in the long term spot they have to stay there for 3 years. So, goalies and defensemen have just such a long maturation process most of the time. You can slide them in that spot and hope they take the normal time. If not, they are still on your team, but you have to watch them tear it up without rewarding you.
This just adds another thing to track for the commish and another rule for everyone to follow. much simpler to just add 2 spots and let the GMs use them how they see fit.
I say increase them. WIth us adding around 6 draftees a year (3 from our NHL team and 3 from our draft), it really squeezes our minors. The NHL has a full minor team and even players that play overseas, so I feel like adding 1 - 5 extra slots still leaves a lot of good talent on the board, while giving less talented teams more spots to rebuild.
I mean, if that's how you want it to be in here, then what we have is fine. What we have being - GM's in here giving up on young players after 40 NHL games because they're stuck on their NHL team's 4th line or 3rd D pairing playing 8-10 minutes per game... And then in a year they have a breakthrough and become relevant, at which time they're still FA's and anyone can have at them.Not all prospects, only a handful actually, are Nathan MacKinnon like for fantasy purposes.Look at some of the "top" guys in past drafts ... Yakupov and Galchenyuk and Trouba are really the only ones doing anything really relavent from 2012.There's still quite a few guys from the 1st round of the 2011 draft that are still to really make a huge fantasy impact in our league. Even Huberdeau hasn't really lit it up as expected. Larsson was a bust. Zibanejad hasn't done a ton. Arguably one of the top 5 and certainly top-10 players from that draft was Palat taken in the 7th round, 4th last pick in the entire draft.