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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
What does that solve? If they don't like the team that claims them, they continue to refuse to sign.
And what does the team that drafted him get? They lose the player for nothing?
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You can give the team that claims the player a year of control of the rights. If the player doesn’t sign, they lose a year of development/NHL salary and will go back into the waiver system next year. If the player clearly indicates a preference for signing with a specific team, their rivals can scoop up their rights for at least a year.
The goal is to deter players from going this route.
Teams who currently lose NCAA players to free agency get no compensation. You could bring in compensatory picks like in baseball if that was something that league wanted to be addressed.