Interesting. I always thought that the league as a whole had to agree on compensatory picks on a case-by-case basis (which always seemed fair, but also a bit tedious). For instance, to gain a compensatory pick for Jankowski if the Flames offered him a contract, and he chose not to sign, the other 29 teams would have to agree to give the compensatory pick, and that it was not automatic.
Was that indeed something from that past, or did I grab that out of nowhere? Makes it much less tedious to have it happen automatically.
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