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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
. And I think it's 100% to encourage players to sign with the teams who have their rights and provide the ability for teams who do have their rights to potentially make sign-and-trades like this.
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The difference between 7 and 8 years seems just so minor to make it worthwhile to include in the CBA to have an effect of really many occasions
Maybe that's why it was included ha, one NHL negotiator wanted it and everyone just "ok'd" it as it didn't' matter to anyone else