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Originally Posted by Bonded
I don’t like this idea at all. It would be terrible for teams like the Flames and they’d effectively be managing with a cap penalty because they’d have to overpay any decent prospect.
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Why ? 18 year olds are more likely to take the highest offer then anyone - they have no career earnings, and good teams who typically attract the best UFA or trade demands won’t have cap to spend on rookies
Instead the Flames are picking in the 2nd half of the draft , with a ton of cap room - that they can use on overpaid UFAs instead of
The best destinations can’t sign the UFAs, get the best rookies and be the teams players demand trades too in a cap world .
If anything the current draft helps the desired destination teams as much as anyone as they get cost controlled players while being able to sign or trade for the best established players