Post by dogman on May 1, 2008 14:18:30 GMT -5
From the Peterborough Examiner
Rule tackles OHL draft holdouts
Posted By MIKE DAVIES
Updated 2 days ago
The following is the first in a series previewing Saturday's OHL Priority Selection 9 a.m. at www.ontariohockeyleague.com.
The OHL has introduced a new rule for its draft to address the issue of players refusing to report to teams.
Teams will receive compensatory picks if a player doesn't report and they elect to trade him or put him back into the following draft. A window has also been opened for teams to trade the player prior to Sept. 1.
Previously, players taken in the first round could only be traded between Jan. 1-10.
Last season, four first-round picks did not report to the teams which drafted them. Sault Ste. Marie ended up trading Jordan Mayer to Mississauga in January. Ethan Werek (Kingston), Cam Fowler (Kitchener) and Beau Schmitz (Plymouth) did not play in the OHL last season.
The rule also addresses situations like last year when Matt Duchene, who may have been the first pick overall, told teams he wouldn't report because he was heading to Michigan State University. Brampton drafted him fifth overall and he ended up playing with Brampton. It was the second-straight year Brampton signed a player who told the other 19 teams he wouldn't report. That player, Cody Hodgson, and Duchene are both from Haliburton and shared the same agent.
Now a team can take a player in that situation, trade him and get compensation, said Peterborough Petes' GM Jeff Twohey.
The rule is complicated.
First, if a team trades its first-round pick, it can only receive draft picks from the other team in return.
If he was among the top four players chosen in the draft, the team can trade him prior to Sept. 1 and as compensation receive the fifth-overall pick the following year, plus a bonus pick at the end of the second round.
If that team waits until January to trade the player, they will not get the second-round pick.
If the player was selected later in the first round, between fifth and 20th overall, the team can trade him before Sept. 1 and receive a compensatory pick one spot later than where they selected him.
For example, if the team had the fifth-overall pick, they will get the sixth-overall choice the next year in addition to their regular first-round selection. If they wait until January to trade the player their compensation pick drops to the second round.
If a team elects not to trade the player, they can still receive compensation, but the player is reentered into the following the draft. If a team elects to hold onto the player, there is no compensation.
"The league, to their credit, recognized there was an issue and is doing something about it," said Twohey.
"It makes it a little easier to stand up and take somebody who is telling you he's not coming. This was never in place before."
At the same time, Twohey's not convinced it will cure all ills.
"People are still going to find ways to cheat no matter what," he said. "We'll have to wait and see, but I think it also leaves open the possibility of finding new ways to cheat.
"Unfortunately, there are people in this league who don't think about the league first."
Twohey said he's not likely to pick a player who won't report, but he used the Duchene situation to illustrate how it works.
If the rules were in place last year and the Petes chose Duchene, they could have dealt him to Brampton and received compensation. That means this year they'd have the fifth pick overall as compensation and their current pick, which is also fifth overall, would be bumped to sixth.
"We would have the fifth and sixth picks, plus a bonus pick at the end of the second round," he said.
"Would we have, for sure, taken Duchene? I can't answer that, but I know it would have been a little easier to take him," said Twohey.
"At the same time, we want kids who want to come. We have no complaints with Zack Kassian. It does give you a bit of flexibility if you choose to use it."
As in the past, teams can not trade their first-round pick prior to the draft.
Tomorrow: Twohey discusses the Petes' draft needs.
Rule tackles OHL draft holdouts
Posted By MIKE DAVIES
Updated 2 days ago
The following is the first in a series previewing Saturday's OHL Priority Selection 9 a.m. at www.ontariohockeyleague.com.
The OHL has introduced a new rule for its draft to address the issue of players refusing to report to teams.
Teams will receive compensatory picks if a player doesn't report and they elect to trade him or put him back into the following draft. A window has also been opened for teams to trade the player prior to Sept. 1.
Previously, players taken in the first round could only be traded between Jan. 1-10.
Last season, four first-round picks did not report to the teams which drafted them. Sault Ste. Marie ended up trading Jordan Mayer to Mississauga in January. Ethan Werek (Kingston), Cam Fowler (Kitchener) and Beau Schmitz (Plymouth) did not play in the OHL last season.
The rule also addresses situations like last year when Matt Duchene, who may have been the first pick overall, told teams he wouldn't report because he was heading to Michigan State University. Brampton drafted him fifth overall and he ended up playing with Brampton. It was the second-straight year Brampton signed a player who told the other 19 teams he wouldn't report. That player, Cody Hodgson, and Duchene are both from Haliburton and shared the same agent.
Now a team can take a player in that situation, trade him and get compensation, said Peterborough Petes' GM Jeff Twohey.
The rule is complicated.
First, if a team trades its first-round pick, it can only receive draft picks from the other team in return.
If he was among the top four players chosen in the draft, the team can trade him prior to Sept. 1 and as compensation receive the fifth-overall pick the following year, plus a bonus pick at the end of the second round.
If that team waits until January to trade the player, they will not get the second-round pick.
If the player was selected later in the first round, between fifth and 20th overall, the team can trade him before Sept. 1 and receive a compensatory pick one spot later than where they selected him.
For example, if the team had the fifth-overall pick, they will get the sixth-overall choice the next year in addition to their regular first-round selection. If they wait until January to trade the player their compensation pick drops to the second round.
If a team elects not to trade the player, they can still receive compensation, but the player is reentered into the following the draft. If a team elects to hold onto the player, there is no compensation.
"The league, to their credit, recognized there was an issue and is doing something about it," said Twohey.
"It makes it a little easier to stand up and take somebody who is telling you he's not coming. This was never in place before."
At the same time, Twohey's not convinced it will cure all ills.
"People are still going to find ways to cheat no matter what," he said. "We'll have to wait and see, but I think it also leaves open the possibility of finding new ways to cheat.
"Unfortunately, there are people in this league who don't think about the league first."
Twohey said he's not likely to pick a player who won't report, but he used the Duchene situation to illustrate how it works.
If the rules were in place last year and the Petes chose Duchene, they could have dealt him to Brampton and received compensation. That means this year they'd have the fifth pick overall as compensation and their current pick, which is also fifth overall, would be bumped to sixth.
"We would have the fifth and sixth picks, plus a bonus pick at the end of the second round," he said.
"Would we have, for sure, taken Duchene? I can't answer that, but I know it would have been a little easier to take him," said Twohey.
"At the same time, we want kids who want to come. We have no complaints with Zack Kassian. It does give you a bit of flexibility if you choose to use it."
As in the past, teams can not trade their first-round pick prior to the draft.
Tomorrow: Twohey discusses the Petes' draft needs.