Dallas Flames Fan said:
Well, this draft is different, in a sense that you protect 25 players, the remaining players go into the pool of available players with the other FAs. That means you don't own any of the players that you don't protect anymore. If you want them, you have to re-draft them.
With all due respect, but if that's the case that completely defeats the purpose of trying to build a young team...
While losing a player or 2 would be understandable in some sense, effectively losing 5+ players off my farm and the same number from my roster means I will be losing some excellent prospects which I got since I decided to go young...
It would mean losing good prospects like Petr Kanko, Jussi Jokinen and Cory Urquhart (2 of which I just traded for) because while they would fit on my roster, I am just unable to protect them according to these rules and will hence apparently lose them. This kind of solution to me really favors those in win now mode who can replenish the farm this way, as the regular 3rd/4th round players on those teams are way easier to replace. GMs on the other hand who have been working with a young team get unfairly penalized IMO... I find it to be rather peculiar as well how prospects can be available in a waiver draft, something which to me doesn't make that much sense anyways, especially in this setup...
Just some more clarification: I feel that prospects are rather different from normal roster players and hence should have a somewhat different status. They apparently don't, so I am pretty sure I'll lose players. Shoudl this be a limited amount I think I could live with it, but the possibility to lose an unlimited amount of players to me penalizes those GMs which have built a roster with many quality talents way too severe...
