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  1. 1 hour ago, Rick Blight said:

    I agree that it would be nice to let ELC players spend time in the AHL for development purposes. However, I am not sure this would be dictated at all by the salary cap era and, in actual fact, I think the salary cap era actually encourages teams to have multiple ELC players on the team. This would certainly be true for those teams that have salary cap issues due to what they are paying their star players. Teams like Chicago, Pittsburgh and soon Edmonton will have to have players still on their ELC's if they want to stay under the cap.

    Developing teams like Vancouver probably won't have that problem (yet) and I can certainly see that it may be beneficial to have more ELC players developing in the AHL.

    Just my perspective...

    Do you think Benning and co. see a positive when burning a year off an elc? Being able to sign them just before they break out at slightly lower cost? Obviously not with everyone, but say boeser puts up 40 pts next year and 50 the year after. He'll come cheaper at this point than in the following year when he potentially goes higher again. Pure speculation but you never know. 

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