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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It's hard to conceive of a way to force Fox or Stone to sign here. You can make it harder on Fox through tinkering with the college UFA rules but ultimately if he wants NYC badly enough (and he's good enough for them to want him) he will play there. And Stone wasn't even a product of CBA rules - he had no NTC which prevented him being traded here. He just refused to discuss an extension with the Flames, whereas he was ready to do that in a second with Vegas.
The main things I think you can do are to (a) tighten NTC allowances; (b) adjust the salary cap for taxes; and (c) change RFA rules to extend control to the drafting teams. The Union will like the second one I think but fight hard on the other two.
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Yeah, I don't think there is a way to completely fix it - but I think it would be nice to see some mitigation measures as you outlined. At the end of the day Calgary will never be a New York, Chicago, Vegas, LA, etc.