OOHL Ideas

[brimyster]

Two things I wanna touch on here:

One; Barry this off season please eliminate one team/non-active owner and even out the divisions and open up 15 NHL players that would give all owners more options.

Two; "The 2 year contract" If a player is already on a long-term contract or is due a contract. Can we please adjust this rule so that we stop paying for the same year twice. A "B" player or a 2/3 player still has a contract for next year but if i give him a two year deal I am only buying one extra year. B becomes 1/2. I propose that the contract becomes 0/2 or 0/3 etc. Therefore actually adding the full 2 years or more of the contract.

Just some thoughts,
Brian-STL Swordsmen

[oohl1]

Brian, I'd normally be all for disbanding an abandoned team or two. Do you remember what happened the last time we tried to do that? One or two owners who like to stir things up every now and then raised hell about how it was unfair because other teams would have a better chance of getting the best players on the disbanded team, etc., etc. Right about that time we were lucky to have a new owner save the franchise.

So Plan A for apparently abandoned teams is to find a new owner and avoid that kind of crap.

As for the two-year contract, that last year - the option year - is supposed to be more expensive. It's what makes a long series of two-year deals cost you more than a single four or five year deal, which it should. It's also the way you know fairly early who's playing out the option and will be available for the draft.

It also means that teams will turn over their players a little more often when protected lists are due, giving everyone more players to go after - and isn't that what you wanted with the other suggestion?