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Originally Posted by Matty81
I think it's more of a mentality thing than anything to do with the NCAA rules - don't CHL players become free agents two years after they are drafted if they don't sign? I know they can be re-drafted once so it would take until they are 22 to hit UFA status, but they could just as easily say they won't sign with the NHL team that drafted them they just don't seem to do it
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They really would become UFA at 22?
I'm surprised that doesn't happen with top tier guys then. Someone like McDavid could have given up his 3 year ELC, which he could probably have made back playing Europe, and the first RFA year. But the bidding war for a UFA 22 year old McDavid would have been massive. I think that would have increased his lifetime earnings and also let him pick where he played (and since E=NG that would have had value)