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Players who used the "Schultz loophole" (going to NCAA a year late and become UFA after 3 NCAA years):

Blake Wheeler in 2008
Jason Gregoire in 2011
Blake Kessel in 2011
Justin Schultz in 2012

Players who didn't want to sign with their clubs and had their rights traded:

Bill Sweatt in 2010
Tim Erixon in 2011
Corban Knight in 2013

so that's 7 players in 7 years (that I'm aware of) plus Hayes ... how many draft picks have signed with the team that drafted them during the same time frame? Must be a few hundred I'm sure. Still don't see how this has become more common or a problem. Those players are the exception, not the rule.

Plus I still don't get the Gaudreau paranoia ... as in "what were people anxious about exactly?". He could neither use the Schultz loophole nor turn UFA within the next 16 months.