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I brought this up last year to bring us more in line with the way the NHL is giving out contracts, and maybe I should wait until the bulk of the NHL RFAs sign this year to make a conclusion, but I think our 70% is really undervaluing these players now. It was pretty spot on up until last year with Matthews, Eichel, McDavid, Nylander, Larkin, Draisaitl, etc. signing their deals. Those players are making half as much in our league as they are in the NHL, and it might make sense if after their DNHL deal was up their next contract paid them 250% to make up for it, but that isn't even possible with some of these guys. McDavid, Draisaitl, Eichel can't make 17m a year to make up for what they made in the prospect extension. Nylander, Larkin, Ehlers, and the other RFAs that took 5 year NHL deals are just straight up making half as much in our league.I'm thinking like a 10-15% discount would work out if we are trying to keep a hometown feel to the teams.
thats a valid point if DNHL is trying to mirror the NHL. My understanding is that we are not, but I am all for being closer to real life. To do that though there are a bunch of things that would need to change also.
We don't need to match the NHL to a T, but our salary cap and resign values are pulled from the NHL, so when star players are making half as much in our league it is irksome to me only because they contribute greatly to a teams production and thus have great value. The only contracts that are really different in our league than the NHL are defensive players and that is because defense has no value in our league, so we don't pay for it. Conor McDavid does have value as the best center in our league for 3 years. His value was set in the NHL to be 12.5m a year and we are paying him 7.4m. A huge difference for the huge level of production he brings to our league. If the difference was paying Marc-Edward Vlasic .9m a year in DNHL vs 7m a year in the NHL that doesn't really matter because he doesn't produce in our league and has relatively little value. Nobody would be gaining vast amounts of high level cheap production with him.
I would be ok with a 15%, 4 year prospect discount with a minimum value of $3m.I would also be ok with bumping up the extension values of the top 10 D a little bit and leaving the rest similar to where they are.I think it's important that we keep having these conversations about the health/improvement of the league, we monitor the general cap situation in the league, as well as general parity (keeping in mind there will also be rebuilders). Maybe if we lowered the minor league roster size back to 10, it'd create more tough decisions and some prospects would go to FA and get bigger contracts, or get redrafted and make GMs have to be even more strategic during the supplemental draft. I'll never forgot that I dropped Larkin to keep Haydn Fleury because I thought Detroit was years away from calling him up...