[GreenLantern2814]

I don’t think it’s the NTC/NMCs that are the problem so much as it’s impossible to massage the cap and rid yourself of bad contracts.

The idea that we should punish teams for five, six seven years for signing a bad contract is dumb. If you don’t want to pay the player, pay him what he has owed. For one season, you carry then player’s full cap hit, and then it’s done.

If you’ve drafted/developed a player from day 1, or they played their entire career with you, or 400 games, or whatever, there should be more mechanisms to retain those players without screwing yourself over. I don’t know what that would look like.

Maybe you get $250k accrued for each year the player is on the roster, and when an extension is due, you can knock X amount off the cap. So if you have Pat Kane And extend him for $10.5M after 8 years, his cap hit is only $8.5M. And that would follow Kane if he was traded.

Transactions and player movement drive interest. The games are secondary.