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Do you have a link on this? I am curious to read it.
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From the link MegaErtz shared....
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If the NHL does want to implement a 19-year-old draft, it’s going to get far more resistance from the NHL Players’ Association than it is from the legal system. The reason for that is the non-statutory labor exemption that allows labor law to trump anti-trust law. So as long is there is a collective bargaining relationship, which there is in the NHL, then labor law wins the day.
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There have been challenges to draft rules and plenty of precedent to suggest those challenges fail. In 2004, running back Maurice Clarett of Ohio State University challenged the NFL’s rule that a player had to be three years removed from high school to be drafted. He won in federal court, but the decision was later overturned in appeals court before the Supreme Court refused to review the case.
“The court is basically saying, ‘We want to encourage collective bargaining and in order to do it we have to protect the fruits of collective bargaining or the entire process of collective bargaining, so we won’t let anti-trust law interfere with it,’ ” said Gabe Feldman, an associate professor and director of sports law at Tulane University.
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I'm no expert but from that it doesn't seem to be illegal as the courts defer to whatever is in the CBA and whatever is negotiated between the union and league is what the courts support and encourage.