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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
There should be more of this - ie players can unlock certain lengths of contract by either being there a certain length of time or scoring however many points.
A GM shouldn’t want to be able to give 31-year old James Neal five years. Or 32 year old Nazem Kadri 7.
The PA would never agree to this without something astonishing in return, but what if your contract eligibility was directly tied to points?
Once you’re off ELC, you can’t sign a 3-year contract unless you have a 30-point season. And on and on and on. Blake Coleman should not be allowed to sign a six-year deal having never broken 40 points.
So if you score 110 points, you make yourself eligible for an 11-year contract.
And once you’ve unlocked a tier, it’s unlocked for life.
There’s ways to make this interesting and encourage some player movement without “money outside the system”, and at least this way you could point to a guys record and say “this is why he’s making this much”.
Another thing that should be unlockable - NMCs and NTCs.
Sidney Crosby deserves a NMC. PPG players deserve NMCs.
Most guys don’t. If a NMC is the difference between getting a random UFA and not getting him, I don’t want him.
NTCs should be tiered, and there should be a max of 3 Canadian teams guys are allowed to submit on their NTC list - you can’t blackball a country that gives you all your TV money.
More to follow.
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There is more to valuing players than simply points.