For. I was drafted to STL in S44 as a first gen and I have literally never seen any other team hoist the cup.  Who are these Kelowna jabronis claiming to be the best?


For.  I stayed down a third season because I loved being on the best team of the S40's, I had to pay a two season tax of being totally stagnant but I wasn't forced into that decision.  I was lucky enough to be drafted to a team that would take me whenever I was ready, so I never experienced a problem of being forced to stagnate in the SMJHL.
I'm in favor of a solution where players can reasonably graduate after 2 seasons, staying down longer than that would be a choice they make knowing that their build would stagnate for a while.  If there is a problem with teams not accepting third season players, we should look to resolve that rather than adjusting the cap.  Specifically, I like approaches that promote using actives rather than inactives (maybe faster decay of inactives, or increased cost) in order to make more room in the big league.

If there is any amount of cap adjustment, it could be to make the growth last a little longer into the second season, I was capped after my first offseason, and anecdotally I think it's pretty common.  We have a ton of data nerds here who could tell you the average TPE growth rate, and what increase would last the average player into half of their second season.