Many GM's have had concerns over the disparity in assets in the CPHL, myself included. I have come up an analysis to try and put an actual figure on this disparity. Download the PDF below to see a team by team report of Currency and for information on how I calculated it.
http://www.filedropper.com/cphlcurrencyanalysis
Analysis:
The Top 5 Teams have 33.30% of League Currency
Minnesota has 9.37% of League Currency
Calgary has 0.10% of League Currency (typo in report)
The bottom 15 teams have 34.60% of the League Currency
Average League Currency is 35.6 (Without Minnesota it would be 33.34)
Other Notes:
The top 5 teams hold 40 picks in round 1 and 2 in 2015 and 2016 for 33.33% of all Picks
The Top 5 teams hold 36 of the Top 75 prospects for 48% of all the List
The Top 5 Have 18 players in their ECHL rosters that currently play in the NHL. Only Colorado and Nashville have players that do the same (2 each).
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Now i know that the GMs with lots of Currency have worked hard to get it. However, it is also creating a situation where there are some very clear have and have not teams. With the amount of future assets (picks and prospects) sitting with such small percentage of the teams it is going to create more problems down the road.
I would like to table three suggestions:
1) First round draft picks can only spend 2 seasons in the ECHL
2) Once a player reaches 100 NHL games they have to be played on the CPHL roster the following season.
3) Two year ELC's for all first round draft picks (increase the cost to hold them)
Thoughts ?