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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
You missed the point entirely.
The draft should be an even playing field. That little piece of #### should have had to sign a contract with the Flames and work his way to free agency the proper way.
He should not had the choice to be a little bitch and just decide not to sign with the team that drafted him and slither his way to New York because it's what he fancied.
What in the #### is the point of having a draft if players can just ####ing stay in school, get their ivy league degree and then sign wherever the #### they want to. Don't answer that, it's rhetorical.
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For the sake of clarity it should be noted, no drafted player has his rights held in perpetuity by the drafting team.
The CHL, NCAA, SEL, etc... the only league that is the case is the KHL which does not have a transfer agreement with the NHL.
There's a stale date for all of them.
In the case of players drafted in the first round who fail to sign despite a boni fide offer by the drafting club, that club receives a compensatory draft pick, in the second round, at a number matching the pick in the first round.