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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Pretty sure the Rangers got a compensatory pick out of the Cherepanov situation, too.
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At that time there was a clause in the CBA where if you did not sign your first round pick you were given the same number selection in round 2 as compensation. So since the Rangers did not have him signed they received that pick. Had they signed him before his untimely passing...that would have been different.
They actually changed the language in the 2013 CBA to cover a situation where if the player becomes deceased. The way it was written prior to that the player still had to be eligible to be drafted to get compensation and the Rangers had to argue that the deceased Cherepanov was still eligible to be drafted even though it would most likely not happen.