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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
NTC and 8 year contracts is your issue you have no player movement.
Canadian teams have to offer up long term big money deal and get stuck with crap at times. Plus you can't trade for many players.
NHL needs to give some leeway on RFA and bring in contract limits to 4 and 5 for the signing team and NTC only available after 10 years of service.
Also to give back the advantage to teams to retain players do it like the NBA so that the team you are on can offer you the largest deal.
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I would be interested in the NBA style not only can you offer the extra year but you can offer more per year. The biggest difference with the NHL and the NBA is NBA players often make the max you can offer where no NHL players makes the max. If you said teams signing UFA's can only offer 16% vs 20% from original team, it would make no difference as no player typically makes more than 16% anyways.