| Date | 2013-01-31 07:31 |
| Message | Benn for Hartnell |
| Date | 2013-01-31 07:17 |
| Message | Havlat in for Lupul Fleischmann in for Roy I'll keep Smith in and assume Weber will stop sucking it up |
| Date | 2013-01-31 06:31 |
| Message | Horton in for Spezza Franson in for Burns |
| Date | 2013-01-31 05:35 |
| Message | Purcell in for Cammilari For the record......I am fine with leaving the pool as is. Having said that some GM's have been at this many more years than me and i understand if they want changes. My one suggestion though would be to keep the prospect draft/farm team aspect of the pool as it is fun researching the new young guys coming up. |
| Date | 2013-01-31 05:22 |
| Message | Pacioretty and Johansson out, Henrique and Couturier in. Lets see who remembers roster deadline day. |
| Date | 2013-01-30 08:32 |
| Message | i also like the idea of signing contracts before the season starts, not after. more risk involved, more mistakes, more interesting... |
| Date | 2013-01-30 08:13 |
| Message | cam should get 10 extra years the first year. |
| Date | 2013-01-30 08:11 |
| Message | i agree. contract years need to be a scarce and valuable commodity. |
| Date | 2013-01-30 05:44 |
| Message | From my perspective the most important aspect to any new changes would be setting the correct cap number. Just thinking out loud, but if say the number was 120 cap years, and I chose to spread my roster dominated with 3-5 year deals that would allow me to basically keep my entire roster for a 3-5 year window, possibly creating a dynasty in the case of Cam, or keep a team trapped in the bottom. I think the cap number should be relatively low, to force or encourage a significant amount of turnover each year, allowing weaker teams the opportunity to pick up 2-3 significant upgrades to improve there teams quickly. I dont have a problem with teams having a great core of contracts for 12-15 players with the rest being exposed in the redraft. |
| Date | 2013-01-30 05:13 |
| Message | teams with good picks in the redraft in a strong FA year will see value in trading away players with high years to make cap room for the talent available. 3-5 years from now.. its easier to trade an asset with a defined end date to their value. |