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My biggest issue probably is with the 40 game limit. With so many players slipping through the cracks with limited minors, I think it hurts teams that are trying to rebuild. If those teams could sign additional minor league players through FA, and place them on their active roster so see if they hit on some guys. The current system drives up the price on these rookie players as we are all waiting around for these young guys to hit 40 games.
I don't care about the 40 game limit, only because we can keep players with over 40 games down in the minors if they go past the 40 games. That's why almost all my minor leaguers are the players that are actually IN the NHL - I can't send them back down after 40 games, but I can keep them there for however long I want until they're actually worthy of a roster spot.That's why more spots in the minors would be beneficial to re-building teams. I would say even up to 15 spots for this case:You can give more young players a season or heck, even 2 seasons to see if they will make much of a contribution to the fantasy set up in here.If after 2 seasons (maybe 100-140 games) if they're not doing anything, then they can easily be replaced because we have so many draft picks. We're all guaranteed at least 1 very good to good prospect each year with our franchise's 1st round draft pick (unless your franchise trades away their 1st round pick I guess).
What are the new rules?We are able to draft obviously any unclaimed 2014 NHL draftee, and then who else.... Players who have played up to how many NHL games?