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Naosu · 02-03-2021, 03:09 PM

I want to bring to light a new issue that’s arisen with the recent SHL contract changes. I’m sure people have noticed as there’s already been a couple threads from some people. Teams are becoming so cap crunched that they’re having to release prospects and these prospects are sitting in limbo. While I do believe the intended effect of these changes is starting to work, this inadvertent side effect wasn’t foreseen.

I’ll be optimistic and assume HO has already taken notice, but I want to post this so everyone is aware. There’s at least two threads in the media section of players who have been dumped and looking for an SHL team, and I know of a player on Kelowna who is in the same position. I think it’s safe to assume there is more as well, or will be in the coming seasons.

As a member of a team currently in cap hell I don’t think I can offer a valid opinion at the SHL level, but I do believe there should be some leniency for prospects here. Maybe we can give SMJHL teams the option to work with SHL and offer to cover more cap on certain players, or increase the total amount covered on SHL send downs and raise the SMJHL cap. I hope the league is able to come up with a solution for this quickly as no active player should be without a team.

charlieconway · 02-03-2021, 04:32 PM

I'm gonna come in with a hot take and say prospects shouldn't count against their SHL team's cap hit, full stop.

Henrik · 02-03-2021, 05:12 PM

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.

I think this might have some unintended consequences but I'm not entirely against it. I think a hard number of prospects per team that don't count might be a better, for example 9 per team or something. But this would also mean that we would have to have a look at junior contracts.

***boom*** · 02-03-2021, 05:13 PM

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.

999 million x 3 years incoming

PremierBromanov · 02-03-2021, 05:34 PM

thats just us having 30 draft picks in 2 seasons

jRuutu · 02-03-2021, 06:14 PM

Inactive players should be deleted.

***WannabeFinn*** · 02-03-2021, 07:33 PM

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.

I see where you're going with this, but what's to stop teams from paying their prospects unlimited moneys because it doesn't have any sort of consequences? I guess the solution would be to standardize rookie contracts across the board, but that just removes one of the few advantages barren teams have over loaded ones (more available cap = more money early on in prospect development).

charlieconway · 02-03-2021, 07:57 PM

02-03-2021, 07:33 PMWannabeFinn 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.
I see where you're going with this, but what's to stop teams from paying their prospects unlimited moneys because it doesn't have any sort of consequences? I guess the solution would be to standardize rookie contracts across the board, but that just removes one of the few advantages barren teams have over loaded ones (more available cap = more money early on in prospect development).

Standard contract rates, yeah. And I think every new player should have enough money from that contract+fantasy to pay for every cent you'd need to be at the top of your class TPE-wise (training and equipment). I'd want to see money be taken out of the equation as something for new users to grind.

To me, acquiring new players already requires enough capital: you either trade for them or draft them with picks. Requiring (now extremely precious) cap space to give young players a team is a bit superfluous.

For the record, I'm more than fine with the new contract tiers, even with my own team being much better off before the change.

*ZootTX* · 02-03-2021, 09:14 PM

Why not just offer a flat credit of some kind, eliminating the incentive for inflated contracts?

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