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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
It does seem like the removal of conditions for a player re-signing has ultimately hurt selling clubs, as it's been replaced by tougher to reach conditions around team success.
I still have never heard the rationale for why that is no longer allowed.
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Player reps will argue that a team signing a contract could factor that into the offer (i.em a reduction of leverage) they are willing to make if you had two players that were UFA.
Player 1: $8m/yr + 2nd round pick
Player 2: $8.1m/yr
While the above scenario is unlikely (two players that you like equally much), you can see how the players representation would fight for this (I.e. Player gets paid less because of the condition). You could also see that owners would easily give on this as they would argue that they are managing to a cap and these types of deltas can be managed through other means.