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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
This is why I laugh when people say the salary cap has produced parity between markets.
It hasn’t. There are still haves and have nots, just as it was in the 90s. It’s just taken on a different form.
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This has nothing to do with the Salary cap and everything to do with Drafting players from the NCAA and them being able to become free agents without having to re-enter the draft or find a place to play for a year.
Even if the rules were altered so that a guy like Fox had to miss an entire season before signing with another NHL team after Leaving College, than maybe he would have been more likely to sign with the Team that drafted him rather than refuse to sign and force his way to the Rangers.
It's pretty much a very Flames like deal to basically give up the two best players in a trade to get two guys who signed for less money. Although in the case of Fox, the Flames played that hand about as well as they could have. I hope the one day something random falls from the sky in New York and wrecks his career. I am that petty.