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Originally Posted by Knightslayer
What do you mean? Not sure how it is coercing if the NHLPA agrees to it. They can make the same rules apply to college players as it does for every other player drafted. How would this not be legal? You'll have to explain that to me.
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No player is forced to sign a contract with the team that drafts him. And until he signs such a contract, he is neither an employee of a team nor a member of the PA, and therefore not a party to the CBA. Nor, as a non-member, did he have any say in the terms of the CBA, so he did not give his consent by that route.
The CBA can rightly say what terms the employer has to offer in an employment contract (since the employer IS a party to the CBA). It cannot compel anyone to accept an employment contract when offered. That's involuntary servitude, and though you may have missed it, it was outlawed some time ago.