Quote:Originally posted by Schultzy@Nov 29 2016, 07:57 AM

All you have to do is encourage free agency. When a player explores free agency they always get better offers. Play with this friend, more ice time, Captaincy, more money....whatever it is it's probably better than their current team is offering and it's almost always always more money.

So the more free agents, the higher the average salary per player. Salary cap doesn't need to be lowered. The unrealistic contracts need to fade away and players need to realize teams will pay $20m+ like Simons just got or PLL or Clitsome....the money is out there. Players aren't asking for it and more importantly players aren't going to free agency to get it because of extended contracts.

Your rookie contract should be1-2 years not 3.
Your sophmore contract should be 1-3 max of 4.

That means that player will eventually have a chance at being a free agent. That's activity, that's parity, that's higher salaries....that's keeping the player interested by offering them something new and exciting.

If you remove the hometown discount rule then you have less money for stacked teams to throw around, meaning players who need bank will either be encouraged to leave the team or stacked teams will make more moves to accomodate them.

Hometown discounts only help the team for having a player for a long time. If anything it should be reduced to something like 10-25%, instead of 50%.

4 mil goes to 3-3.5 mil, and the superstars can't sign for peanuts anymore.