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I want to discuss putting a cap space limit on our minor league rosters.Right now as it is some teams are using the minor league to pretty much horde players and use them as trading chips.With the FA signing period coming up and no waivers what is going to stop teams from getting lots of players and sticking them in their minor league roster with no repercussions? They could do this so that if someone gets injured or use them as players to trade for draft picks etc if teams are in need of players.I took down numbers of all of the teams minor league players total cap, here are the numbers:Chicago - 26.3mDallas - 21.4mMontreal - 18mOttawa - 14.2mLos Angeles - 12.8mEdmonton - 10.8mBoston - 9.3mVancover - 8mCalgary - 7.7mNew York Rangers - 6.3mPhiladelphia - 5.5mDetroit - 4.7mColorado - 4.5mBuffalo - 4mWashington - 1.4mToronto - 1mColumbus - 0Pittsburgh - 092.7m in the top 5 teams alone155.9m in all teams.I don't think teams should be able to have half a teams worth of cap or more in their minor league. It makes it so teams can't go to FA and get some players and the teams could just save those players and either trade them or just make it so no other teams can get them and they would just sit there being inactive. 155.9m could fill up 3 more teams worth of players and that is a whole division. I do think teams should be able to have a player or two down their plus actual prospects and future players and a number like 10m seems pretty fair. When you have your minor league team with players that have no contract, two-way deals and a few cheap players to bring up in case of injury and maybe one big name player(who shouldn't be down there anyways.) you shouldn't need more then 10m worth of cap. Who knows maybe if we get a big enough wait list we could even make a whole new division or add a team to a division here or there. Anyways would love to hear everyones thoughts on this, especially before the FA period.
My main concern is I don't like to see entire teams in the minors, that shouldn't be what they are for and it's a shame that no one can use those players because they are just sitting on a teams minor league roster. Maybe not a 10m cap but at least 15 or even 20? I mean 92.7m worth of players spread across 5 teams minor league roster is a bit much, those are all big name players just sitting there not being used.Also most prospects can be signed for 0.2-0.8m so if 10 prospects is about 5m, and a few other players maybe just one big player sitting there worth 5m then I think we have a good minor league system. Thats not even counting players with no contracts and if you don't have to room to have these guys you might not want to be grabbing them or possibly trading for some cheaper players. (I know that some teams got some from the draft but I'm sure we could make it so that if the cap was implemented teams could drop players with no penalties to fit the cap for a little while.) Also if 10m doesn't work then possibly 12.5 or 15m. Teams would refrain from grabbing a 4-5mil player when they are already capped out and just sending a 4-5mil contract player they no longer need into the minors to sit there until traded or until their contract runs out(which could be a few years.) Or maybe have it so that if a player is worth X certain amount or higher they would go into the FA signing period even if they still had some contract left so that teams could have a chance to pick up these players that are stuck in the minors and are only going to be moved if the owner wants them to be moved up during the one week of free waivers. This way if an expensive player gets sent down to the minors and stays there until the waiver deadline then they will lose those big name players and if they want to have those players back they will have to resign them next year and give other teams chances at signing them. If they are sending them to the minors it is probably because they don't need or want them anymore anyways.Most of these teams are going to get worse as they get more players and drop more players to the minors. What is 26.7m worth of players now could be 40m the same time next year. I checked a few more numbers and - 29.9m (11 players worth a mil or higher.) worth of the 155.9m of players will be going into the FA pool. 126m will still be in peoples minor league teams. Some might get called up during free waiver period, but a lot of them will probably stay there as the teams sign more players in FA season and stick even more players down in the minors causing teams to have even more players stuck in the minors.