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Originally Posted by N-E-B
By this logic we should eliminate the draft, which is obviously a bad idea.
People have complete control of their lives. Being drafted to the NHL is essentially just a job offer. They don't have to accept it. But if they do it comes with the chance of job relocation across 32 different cities.
Nobody is forcing them to play anywhere.
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Professional sports is also an entertainment business that depends on some semblance of competitive balance in order to keep the customers interested, which means talent has to be spread around. It's what they sign up for when they choose to play in the NHL. The fact the NHL even allows NTCs and NMCs at the scale they do, is damaging to the product.
It would be like an actor signing up to do a movie and then complaining that they need to shoot in remote locations.