So first the archetypes, I believe in some way we need to make players builds more representative of the style. Along with that i believe that we should make it even harder for players to reach Gretzky levels of success. I believe that only those that do get to the maximum threshold of tpe should be allowed to wear the badge of honor known as being above 1,900 tpe. There are very few players in league history that have made these marks and as such they should be rewarded for doing so.

Next the SMJHL TPE Cap. I believe that maybe we should find a way to allow SMJHL players to have more variety in there capped build. Maybe for instance we use a capped like 450 tpe as the bench mark. Players may continue to earn and spend tpe up to the 450 mark. once they hit beyond the 450 mark they mark the end of their junior career at the end of that season. This will allow some of the more slow earning players to still compete in the J, while those that are speed earners will move on after their second or third season. This might be something that would help in the way of the possible expansion talk as well to help form more young blood across the league and make for more variety amongst teams.

The last thing that i think we should be discussing is RFA or ELC period. My other thought on the SMJHL Cap would be to extend the RFA period out an additional season, make it 4 seasons instead of the current 3. Then on top of that make all ELC contracts 3 seasons in length. To put the icing on top of all of this last idea would be to make the RFA/ELC period begin when the player enters the SHL. Still leave the current beginning to regression in place. The big caveat to all of this would be that while in the J you can only earn TPE using the current "SMJHL Rookies" Training program, this would be the same for equipment (So 500k for 3tpe training each week). We would use the same system as the NHL for how slide contracts would work, but as far as the player contracts would go in the SMJHL, I believe we could then make them all even across the board, all players earn the same amount. I believe that this would then encourage players to continue on with their career and move along to the SHL. This would help bring parity back to the SMJHL, instead of a bunch of Capped teams playing russian roulette for the 4 star cup,



TL/DR:

• Archetypes/Player TPE
  
• -Harder to be fully maxed
  
• -Make archetypes mean something
  
• SMJHL Cap (There are many ideas here, some correlated some not. Read above for more detail)
  
• -Raise cap, but player can earn their way out of the J
  
• -Leave cap, but:
  
• - ~Length RFA Period to 4 seasons
  
• - ~Make all ELCs 3 seasons
  
• - ~Allow the SHL contract to slide
  
• - ~Make it so while in the J you can only earn TPE following the SMJHL TTC thread, including PTs and no PT Cap
  
• - ~All SMJHL Players earn the same, similar to the US Division in the WHL (all players earn a mandatory stipend)