The NHL is happy to help: the official rule book can be downloaded from their website.
http://www.nhl.com/ext/0708rules.pdf (right click+save as, and youll need Acrobat reader)
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Gents,
I\'m trying to remember an NHL rule (I dunno if it has a name...) in which, when you trade rights to a player to a team and he does not resign, the team gets a compensatory pick that\'s inserted somewhere in the first round...
Am I crazy or such a rule exists?
Thanks folks,
Jerome.
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The NHL is happy to help: the official rule book can be downloaded from their website.
http://www.nhl.com/ext/0708rules.pdf (right click+save as, and youll need Acrobat reader)
That will contain your answer.
I believe these are the rules for the game and not the rights of player contracts.
Try this link for the CBA from the NHLPA.COM
http://www.nhlpa.com/CBA/2005CBA.asp
GoHabsGo wrote:
Ahh yeah, makes sense something about contracts would be in the CBA and not the rules :silly:I believe these are the rules for the game and not the rights of player contracts.
nice find Habs.
I haven\'t read the new CBA yet.
Here is what I remember: The rule you were referring to had to do with compensating small market teams for losing free agents. I believe it had to do with your revenue or total salary or something. If you were in the bottom part of the league you would recieve a late round pick if you lost a free agent who signed for big money. As an example with Cujo became a free agent after some years with the Leafs they traded him to Calgary (for an 8th round pick) because Calgary qualified as a small market team and Toronto didn\'t. Therefore Calgary got the compensation pick and Toronto got Calgary\'s pick.
I think that was the jist of it. I don\'t know if it is a part of the current CBA but I doubt it.
Yeah, I think that was old school CBA stuff.