Would a soccer style loan system work in the NHL?

[Kaiden Ghoul]

Nah i would not want the player risking a career ending injury while playing for another team

 

[SeaChaser]

I'm a hockey fan. What is this "soccer" thing?

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Last time I checked football was the number one sport in the world.

Even if you check only countries that have ice hockey, then football is still ahead everywhere except Canada and Finland.

Actually, ice hockey does something wrong if it can't beat football even in winter countries like Russia, Sweden and Norway.

so? Just because something is the most popular doesn't mean its the best

Aren’t they between different leagues? Not sure how it would work in the NHL and what purpose it would serve

they can be in the same league. In Italy for example Juventus usually has like 20 different guys loaned out to a bunch of bottom table teams every year

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

This doesn’t really go against the cap though. All cap hits are transferred. The advantage is that it might allow a team to loan a player on a long term deal to a team that only wants to try that player for a shorter period of time because they aren’t sure about how he’ll fit or because their future cap structure won’t allow it.

What's the incentive tho? It's essentially a trade that reverses.

What benefit would Calgary get from loaning out Rasmus Andersson and then having to send back whatever they got for him in the swap?

 

[Cloned]

What's the incentive tho? It's essentially a trade that reverses.

What benefit would Calgary get from loaning out Rasmus Andersson and then having to send back whatever they got for him in the swap?

They don’t send back what they got unless it was a loaned player as well.

 

[Ghost of Murph]

Will never happen in the NHL. The injury factor alone would nix it. Player development is another huge reason when it comes to younger players. A team can't tell another team how it wants its player developed. As someone else mentioned, the players union would never allow it for multiple reasons.

More of an idea for a sim management game than anything real world. It's really not even needed to begin with in today's NHL.

Soccer is not comparable to the NHL. Umteen leagues across the continents. Thousands of pro players representing most every country. Different financial structure and rules. Different objectives and league/tournament structure than the NHL. Completely different beast.

 

[Chileiceman]

One thing that OP did not mention (I have not read whole thread to see if it's been pointed out elsewhere) is that in soccer the player must agree to the loan. Generally they do because it will be their only opportunity to gain meaningful playing time that season. So for those saying that the PA would not agree to this system, they probably would if they had the ability to have final say on the loan proposal. In many cases it could help a player's career.