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Originally Posted by Parallex
Why should there be a penalty?
The NHL has essentually set the standard for amateur rights retention at 4 years... 2+2 for CHL, 4 Years for Europeans, and graduation for NCAA bound players (typically a 4 year under-grad program). There's nothing broken here and as nothing is broken nothing needs to be fixed.
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Agreed. I might state otherwise if there was a demonstrable problem for teams drafting and then signing players out of the NCAA, but as it stands now, players like Schultz, Hayes, Knight and Wheeler are the exception, not the rule. It just doesn't happen often enough for it to be thought a serious issue.