Expansion Style "Parity" Draft

[Montreal Canadiens (Tyler)]

Proposed Parity Draft Proposal: Doug has expressed concerns over the poor quality of the teams that our newer, replacement owners have taken over. While a full redraft is unfair to the original owners (not to mention a giant pain in the ass) a secondary proposal of an expansion style draft would be a more reasonable measure.

If we were to do a draft like this I propose the following as a ruleset:

• Every team will provide a list of 13 players (half the 25 man roster, rounded up) they would like to protect
• "Prospects" ie players who made less than $2 million last season would be exempt
• No team may have more than 3 players claimed from them
• A player claimed by a team is henceforth removed from the Parity Draft player pool and may not be selected by a subsequent team
• The draft will be two rounds
• Draft order selection will be decided randomly (with so many teams inactive for such a significant stretch of the season doing the draft order as inverse of the standings would not be an accurate representation. Some teams performed far worse than they would have if their lineups were being set, and conversely other teams performed better by preying on inactive lineups)

This draft, if approved through league vote, would begin as soon as possible on the boards. All teams would have 72 hours to submit their protected player list or I will choose for them and then the draft order will be determined randomly on random.org and we would begin.

Effectively I would consider this part of the 2015-16 season, so the offseason has not yet started, and the new rules have not yet initiated. 

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Which teams get to gank players from other teams? Lol

[Toronto Maple Leafs (Sean)]

Good set up I'ld be happy to at the end of next season. I don't see that many teams need it.

[Montreal Canadiens (Tyler)]

Apr 11, 2016 8:53:41 GMT -5 @flyerspaul said:

Which teams get to gank players from other teams? Lol

This current setup is a free for all. Given the disaster our standings are this year they are not very representative of the actual quality of he teams so I am not comfortable doing a non-playoff teams take from playoff teams style or something similar to that until we get at least a year of actual set lineups from the league and see where teams sit.

[Riley from the Sabres]

Hey all, Riley from the Sabres here. I'm still waiting on approval to join this site, but I vote yes. Thanks