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Post by Ace on May 22, 2007 11:47:34 GMT -5
According to the T & T this morning the Q may limit the number of out of zone players to 5 on each team. I can understand the desire to protect the talent levels of each league. (O, W and Q) But if the players aren't given the chance to play in those leagues why should they not be given a chance in another. Marqhardt and Giroux sp? were O players but no team gave them a chance so they got to play here. Look at what they have done. The same goes for the Q. If a player is overlooked and can have an opportunity to play at a higher level who the hell are we to say no you have to sit here in limbo or play at a lower level?? I think that the leagues really need to think this out a little more. Just my two cents.
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Post by chootoi on May 22, 2007 12:18:02 GMT -5
i read that the OHL has already decided to increase team protected lists to 75 or something like that, so they are already well prepared to let kids sit at home and rot. these new proposed rules just seems to be helping achieve that goal. i don't understand this at all. why wouldn't you want the best possible talent playing in your league? the majority of kids in the league are from the territorial area anyway and that will never change. why force kids with a legitimate shot at a hockey career to give that up cause they weren't born in the right province? it's absurd. i personally could care less if the wildcats were made up entirely of the portugese javelin team. if they can score goals and win games, let them play. what i don't get is why the CHL is letting this happen. so much talent going to waste and for what? so that a few gm's don't get egg on their face for seeing a kid that they owned the rights to 3 years ago and given up on, flourish in another league. i mean afterall, nobody ever makes mistakes right? pride is everything i can understand this as a way to even the playing field since it seems like the maritime teams + quebec and gatineau always seem to be able to get the better FA's, but i think this is the wrong way to do it. i'm not saying i know what the solution is, i just think that the teams willing to give these players a chance should be applauded for finding ways to win (even if it means throwing money at players that other teams don't have). i realize i'm kind of going all over the place here but what did they expect to happen with expansion? where was the talent going to come from? teams need to get creative to stay competitive and look at areas they wouldn't normally venture to to find talent to compete with other top teams now. what's wrong with that? in the end it probably won't make a HUGE difference. it will probably end up being a few marcus watsons or brad ouskuns getting cut, which isn't exactly going to cost anyone a championship or anything like that. the cream will still rise to the top, but it's a shame that the kids are just being thrown around like that.
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Post by SteveUL on May 23, 2007 18:53:23 GMT -5
According to the T & T this morning the Q may limit the number of out of zone players to 5 on each team. I can understand the desire to protect the talent levels of each league. (O, W and Q) But if the players aren't given the chance to play in those leagues why should they not be given a chance in another. Marqhardt and Giroux sp? were O players but no team gave them a chance so they got to play here. Look at what they have done. The same goes for the Q. If a player is overlooked and can have an opportunity to play at a higher level who the hell are we to say no you have to sit here in limbo or play at a lower level?? I think that the leagues really need to think this out a little more. Just my two cents. Marquardt is a little different from guys like Magnan ... nobody wanted Magnan so he came to the Q unopposed. Marquardt was a late bloomer ... and so all OHL teams missed him in two drafts ... but at 18 he had something like 11 teams after his services including the Wildcats. I'm sure some of those teams were OHL teams and so he should have been forced to go to the OHL first if he was wanted there. But ... the rules are that once he has been passed on in two drafts (16 and 17) he is eligible to be a FA in any league.
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Post by Shooooot on May 23, 2007 20:26:21 GMT -5
The large number of free agents happen for a reason. The use of 10 free agents last year by the wildcats is a direct response to the draft system ( you win, well now you loose) and is a clear sign that the talent pool has become depleted with all the expansion. The number of small market teams in the CHL out number the large market teams and if each team has an equal vote, the CHL will never support rules that provide any advantage to larger, wealthy owner markets. I agree that it's a shame to restrict a players movement in the country if he's been passed over...and it's not any better when you have the protected list move up to 75 players. I can think of one example with Jason Rinzler where Quebec held his rights but he never had a legitimate shot a playing in Quebec...he gets screwed over, never had a chance to tryout for other teams in the Q including the Cats. A team should be forced to let a player go if they have not kept you with the team after two years...maybe let them re-enter the draft or become a FA. Doesn't sound like these rules are for the players. Sure they say that this will give more local kids a chance but large protected lists does the exact opposite so what are they really trying to do anyway? Stay tuned... this year it's the Moncton FA rule...maybe next year it will be the Moncton US player rule, no more than one american player. I thought only Harold Ballard was that narrow minded and out of touch with the rest of the globe! The CHL should remember that in addition to developing talent, teams have a responsibility to put a product on the ice that is worth the price of admission...afterall it ain't free. Maybe we should start scouting the carribean.
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