New OHL Draft Pick Rule

AttackSound

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I still think 4 years is too far ahead. It's good that they're doing something, though. Anyone who has paid attention to trades in the OHL knows it's gotten out of hand. I'd like to see them allow first round picks to be traded, but only in the next draft and only if the team dealing the first rounder has at least one second round pick for that year in the cupboard.

In theory the idea of trading 1st round picks makes sense, however in a league where there always are teams that get hyped up and move a whole bunch of top picks for one guy at deadline time would be absolutely insane.

For the most part there's always been a big parity in the league, and for the foreseeable future as long as the league feels that the idea of saving managers from themselves at deadline time by having the 1st round picks locked and unmovable will always be a in place.

There's too many marginal teams in the league any given year to start allowing them to go all in on high round picks, if the league would ever consider it then it would destroy the OHL in a matter of seasons as too many team would be forced into moving top 3 round picks for mid-depth chart players.

And would limit the number of contenders to 2-3 teams forcing the league to be watered down too much.
 

jamemcca

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The good teams trade all their picks and still do well because they consistently attract top American and European talent that other teams simply don't have the resources to lure away from the NCAA or European pro leagues. It's not a surprise that London, Windsor and Kitchener are consistently good - each of those cities have 200,000+ people just within city limits to buy tickets and merch. The OHL is well within it's rights to try and maintain some degree of parity year-to-year. Just like corporate McDonalds controls the menu at their franchise restaurants the OHL is going to direct the ship for all 20 of it's franchises.

Kitchener and Windsor aren’t doing so well this year in case you haven’t looked at the standings

This rule doesn’t do a god damned thing for parity. To say otherwise is fake news
 
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jamemcca

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Why not just limit the league to 6 or 7 teams with large metro areas and new taxpayer-funded arenas, then? The idea that the teams in the OHL - or any North American sports league for that matter - are fully independent corporations is silly on its face. These teams are franchises in a larger organization and it's obviously in the interest of that organization to keep things somewhat competitive.

Might want to do some research before you blabber about something you know little about
 

EvenSteven

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You've had some contending teams trade nearly all of their second and third round picks 5, 6 even 7 years down the line. If these teams don't recoup those picks they put themselves in a really bad spot, particularly in a league where no player plays more than 5 years.

Any team that has ever traded away most or all of their second and third round picks, five or six even seven years down the line, always recoup those picks. Cite the case where a team has traded away all those picks and had to go 5, 6 or seven years without a second or third round pick in the draft.

It doesn't happen. Look at Windsor. They completely emptied out their cupboard to load up for their Memorial Cup. Two years later and the cupboard is overflowing. Same goes for everyone else who puts themselves in the same boat.

This rule of restricting how far in the future you can trade picks was brought about by the media, and those GM's who are too candy assed to pay the price at trade deadline time.

We had Steve Spott here in Kitchener who refused to pay that much more for players at the deadline. Spott's crying to the media when he would lose a bidding war because, as he would say, the price was too high, was a form of passing the buck. Instead, he should've been looking at himself in the mirror and admitting he lost a bidding war over a player because of his principles in not recognizing market value year to year. In other words, doing everything to win came second.

It cost the fans in Kitchener and I'm sure provided some chuckles to his competitors in the league.
 

jamemcca

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Any team that has ever traded away most or all of their second and third round picks, five or six even seven years down the line, always recoup those picks. Cite the case where a team has traded away all those picks and had to go 5, 6 or seven years without a second or third round pick in the draft.

It doesn't happen. Look at Windsor. They completely emptied out their cupboard to load up for their Memorial Cup. Two years later and the cupboard is overflowing. Same goes for everyone else who puts themselves in the same boat.

This rule of restricting how far in the future you can trade picks was brought about by the media, and those GM's who are too candy assed to pay the price at trade deadline time.

We had Steve Spott here in Kitchener who refused to pay that much more for players at the deadline. Spott's crying to the media when he would lose a bidding war because, as he would say, the price was too high, was a form of passing the buck. Instead, he should've been looking at himself in the mirror and admitting he lost a bidding war over a player because of his principles in not recognizing market value year to year. In other words, doing everything to win came second.

It cost the fans in Kitchener and I'm sure provided some chuckles to his competitors in the league.[/QUOTE

Your radio announcer is famous for whining and making excuses as well. This was one of his big things he wanted

This is one of the best posts in this thread. The whiners are going to whine whine whine...
 

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