02-04-2021, 03:06 AMCementHands Wrote:

02-03-2021, 04:32 PMcharlieconway Wrote: I'm gonna come in with a hot take and say prospects shouldn't count against their SHL team's cap hit, full stop.

Piling on top of this guy, it would also change juniors to actually have to work with a cap, currently the cap strapped juniors teams are the ones who draft a lot of players, the higher tpe teams with lots of send downs have it easier with just a 2m hit per player.

Now on the flip side, I do think teams are being forced to make a hard decision and this is the fallout of top teams choosing to sacrifice prospects for now.

On another side this is supposed to be for fun and players should be able to play where they want.

Agreed on this. In the J, it is literally cheaper to have a stacked team full of send downs than it is to pay rookies unless they get lowballed. In S56 we were able to pay our one rookie $5 million in cap space and still have $3.5 million left over due to having 18 send downs, while the past couple seasons we've been slammed up against the cap.