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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
You make it sound like the Flyers are the first team to ever do this.
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I honestly can't think of an example where a top 5 pick wouldn't be signed after 1 year of college and burn a year of the ELC.
Cooley is a recent example but that's because there were questions on if he wanted to sign, not the other way around.
The CHL and international guys get drafted within a month of being drafted, so that's not really an example.
College guys all generally sign to burn that year of their ELC. Flames have done it with Coronato, Gaudreau, tried to with Fox, etc. Happened with Kent Johnson in Columbus.
I honestly can't really think of a time where a player wanted to sign and turn pro after the college season was done and it was the team that went "No, we don't want to sign you"