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Originally Posted by transplant99
Its no more power than junior players have.
If a jr. player is drafted, but doesn't want to sign, after 2 years he will be re-entered in the draft. If drafted again he has 2 years to sign and if he does not do so, he becomes UFA IIRC.
As for "working something out woth Fox"? Treliving tried. Right up until the draft began on Friday he was talking to AF representatives. Its pretty obvious he was told that AF wasn;t signing with Calgary. As such there was no option but to deal him. That deal happened to be the Hanifin/Lindholm trade that doesnt happen without AF being included.
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The difference to me is that a team can give a draft pick a strong incentive to sign while playing junior that they cannot give to a draft pick playing college hockey. The point of the draft is to drive parity (drafts are seeded for a reason), and give weaker teams a chance to build. If too many players bypass the teams that drafted them a two tier system subtly arises, where more desirable locations such as New York develop advantages over less desirable locations such as perhaps Winnipeg (for example, not trying to slam anyone).