Minors Management / Trade Requests

[Devils GM(Colin)]

This was copy and pasted from this post : frozenh2odynasty.proboards.com/thread/4729/rfa-compensation-trade-requests

This one is a bit more hypothetical, not necessarily coming into effect, but if the general consensus is positive, we can move forward with. There are quite a few GMs who have stockpiled a TON of depth in their minors, taking full advantage of the no cap on players under 2M. I give it to them, it was smart, plus being able to rotate guys in and out during the week provides a much needed extra fantasy point boost. However, there's quite a few players that also just sit there "in case", and some that would slide into one of the other 20 teams' roster easily.

To keep a competitive balance, my thoughts were to implement a trade "request" system. All players on drafted ELCs would of course be ineligible, but the idea is that veterans who are sitting in a teams minors want to play and after a certain number of games would request a trade.

Very open to thoughts on how to potentially implement this.

Early thoughts:

All players with over X games at the beginning of the season would be waived. Optional to have this repeated again near the halfway point of the NHL season (Dec 31)

Devise an evaluation metric (i.e., player is >0.9 fppg, >90% GP, time on roster < 25%), he must be traded within 30 days or is placed on waivers. Optional here could be that the waivers claim costs a low pick (5th round) to claim

One thing to also consider is that all players signed in the off season RFA or UFA get automatically promoted to the starting roster for the upcoming season. So any player that previously was buried in the minors and is over 42 GP would have to be waived or traded to leave the main roster.

Also mention in your comment if it should be implemented for next season or wait a year?

This post will be up for comment and at a later time we will have a poll if we get comments and interest.

Let's hear your thoughts!

Edit: It seems like forum traffic is slow at the moment. We will leave the discussion up until things pick up.

[chris - Hartford Whalers]

id like to add a point to this... players over 2m will force a buyout. Under the comments above lets say i have corey perry for 4 years at 8m and he is a .9fppg and the potential rule as written above would allow lots of free buyouts.

This is a real challenge.. Is the issue guys currently stored in teams minors that are off their elc not being used? If that is the case we could have a yearly flush of those players exposing them to waivers 48hrs prior to trade deadline with this official date teams can call them up prior to deadline instead of losing the player or work out a trade.

Players clearing would become UFA immediately and players over 2m force a buyout and become UFA as well (since its forced maybe smaller cap penalty would be allowed). Would make our trade deadline more exciting potentially as many players are suddenly available for bid on deadline day.

If the issue is players in the .7-.9fppg being demoted and called up we already have a waiver mechanism in place to claim these players. If teams choose not to utilize this mechanism not much we can do about it.

[Devils GM(Colin)]

For your first point, players over 2 mil in the minors are generally a problem because they aren't good enough and the cap hit is always there.

Giving teams that have signed those players carelessly a cheaper relief is not a great move. Also if say I sign Thornton to a 3 yr deal @ 2 mil to top a 1 yr bid and he retires, I shouldn't get to shed that contract for free as some GMs see a contract spot as useful.

Also having a bunch of players become available in UFA right before the trade deadline isn't great either, would hurt the trading part.