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Originally Posted by devo22
it's not a loophole. If a CHL player refuses to sign, he re-enters the draft two years after the draft ... NCAA players have to play for four years before the team loses their rights.
It sucks for the team when it happens, but it's just not a loophole that needs to (or even can) be closed. At least they were able to flip him in a deal that turned out pretty damn fine for the Flames.
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1. Call it whatever you want but it is a lot easier for a college player to just stay where he is, continue his education, continue playing on the same team with a bigger and bigger role and then get free agency than it is for a junior player to get to the same point. I mean they lieterally don't have to do anything. Just stay where the phuck they are for a little longer. A junior player can't do that.
2. He was a friggin throw in in the Carolina trade. They flipped him for a couple 2nd round picks. Nobody in their right mind would have traded him for a couple 2nd round picks at that point if he was willing to sign. He was tearing college to pieces and ended up winning a Norris while still on his ELC. The Flames got jobbed worse than any team has ever gotten jobbed by an unfortunate ability for college players to threaten to just stay put and wait it out if they get traded to a preferred destination.