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Originally Posted by Preds
I don't have a stake in this, but IMO teams should be assessed a cap penalty as well.
As for Frank's discussion about teams having 24 hours to get under when exceeding the cap or years, this is nowhere near that situation. 2 teams over assigned rookies.
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1 - Release the lowest drafted rookie. Teams shouldn't have a say after this kind of mess up, and to make the commish's and the roster app dude's lives easier (they shouldn't have to wait on a team that screwed up to fix this type of error), it should be the lowest man drafted gets released...period.
2 - Make the released rookie's contract guaranteed. i.e. FINE the offending teams 20% of the released players salary PLUS the Signing Bonus for whatever multiyear deal was assigned. |
Losing a rookie draft pick is a big enough penalty. That's a free developmental player gone, wasted.
I don't think there was much waiting here to see who I would want to drop. I mean sure it can default to the lowest draft pick if it wasn't fixed in the allotted time period when the violation was brought up, but before then why not?
2 - That would be stupid to change the basis of the rookie contract as we assigned rookie years with the thinking that they are not guaranteed until they hit the active roster.
I can understand if this situation was outlined in the rules... but it isn't. TS and rookie draft picks are developmental players with non-guaranteed contracts. So losing a rookie draft pick is a HUGE penalty for a simple error that could have and would have been easily fixed without penalty.
I mean people who FORGOT TO DECLARE ROOKIES are allowed to go back in time and assign years. For a simple miscalculation... you are suggesting I LOSE A DRAFT PICK AND TAKE A CAP HIT on a non-guaranteed salary? Talk about excessive.