Several agents who revolve around the National Hockey League find that the amateur draft is too long.
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At least that’s what Sportsnet insider Elliotte Friedman suggested during his most recent podcast. 32 Thoughts.
These agents would like the selection session to last only four rounds, instead of the current seven. Still according to Friedman, it would even be likely that several members of the NHL Players’ Association would agree with this proposal and that it could be on the table during negotiations for the next collective agreement.
“Among players not receiving a contract offer [après avoir été repêchés], very few are hasty choices. Most of them are later choices,” says Friedman.
He also adds that players find themselves tied to the teams that draft them sometimes more than four years before they make the jump to the professionals and that some of them decide to sign elsewhere or simply do not receive an offer. offer at the end of the day.
This means that all players who were not drafted during the four rounds would become free agents as soon as they were no longer eligible to be selected.
If this proposal comes to fruition, it would be the second time since 2005 that the number of rounds in the draft has been reduced. That year, the amateur auction was reduced from nine to seven rounds.
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