Help with an NHL rule

[Bluenorth]

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.

[Katharsis]

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.

[GoHabsGo]

I believe these are the rules for the game and not the rights of player contracts.

[GoHabsGo]

Try this link for the CBA from the NHLPA.COM

http://www.nhlpa.com/CBA/2005CBA.asp

[Katharsis]

GoHabsGo wrote:

I believe these are the rules for the game and not the rights of player contracts.

Ahh yeah, makes sense something about contracts would be in the CBA and not the rules :silly:

nice find Habs.

[reeveta]

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.

[repenttokyo]

Yeah, I think that was old school CBA stuff.