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Originally Posted by ComixZone
What about this:
Each team owns one “Franchise Tag”. That tag gives the player a bonus (call it $5M a year) that is outside of the salary cap.
It would create a market where teams that can’t keep players (like us), do get the opportunity to give a specific player something that not everyone else is capable of doing.
Tkachuk wouldn’t want to go to Florida, because Barkov is already their tagged player. Calgary could then have offered the $10.5M AAV + $5M/year tag. In negotiations, say you can lock that tag in for a period of time and it’s locked to that player unless the player waives it. Meaning they can be traded with the tag so long as they become the tagged player at the other end of the trade. If the receiving team already has a tagged player, they’d need to request that player waive their tag otherwise the deal can’t go through.
…I’m sure the idea falls apart at some point, but it at least gives each time the opportunity to keep special players.
So each team gets $83.5M in salary cap next year + $5M bonus for one tagged player.
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Except Johnny was already tagged the year before.