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nfotiu · 07-23-2014, 02:05 PM

I bet they could work out a pretty good system that ditched the draft and let everyone bid up to 2 years of their cap room for each pick. ie, you could bid 15 million for the next 2 years on McDavid, and the club would have to put that in a pool that distributed to the other 29 times and increased the floor and cap by an equivalent amount.

It would make for some nice parity where teams that are already stacked wouldn't be able to make a good bid unless they tried to sell off their players. All sorts of different build and rebuild risk/reward strategies could come into play.

07-23-2014, 02:05 PM	#31
nfotiu Franchise Player Join Date: May 2002 Location: Virginia Exp:	I bet they could work out a pretty good system that ditched the draft and let everyone bid up to 2 years of their cap room for each pick. ie, you could bid 15 million for the next 2 years on McDavid, and the club would have to put that in a pool that distributed to the other 29 times and increased the floor and cap by an equivalent amount. It would make for some nice parity where teams that are already stacked wouldn't be able to make a good bid unless they tried to sell off their players. All sorts of different build and rebuild risk/reward strategies could come into play.