ThatGuy22
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Essentially you're asking if the league would be better if every 1st overall would sign their ELC with Toronto/NYR instead of a random lottery team.
ELC:s are cheap, so of course the most coveted destinations would benefit hugely. By the time they hit RFA, those teams would also have huge amounts of trade assets in the form of blue chip young stars.
Let's say in the last decade all of McDavid, Hall, Seguin, Matthews, Laine, Eichel, MacKinnon, Dahlin and now also Hughes and Kakko would all have signed their ELC's with the Rangers. Would that be a good look for the league?
He doesn't outright say it, but his idea is scrapping ELCs all together. Thats the implication of this statement.
"Top teams competing for the Cup are already paying top dollar to the best players in the world, so they simply won't be able to offer an 18-year-old Connor McDavid a king's ransom and still make the cap work."