Season Payouts

[Deleted]

I think there should be some monetary incentive to make the playoffs.. My team for example I did not expect to make it in but now I'm in 2nd round ... really I'm only now only hurting my draft postion for nothing which is disappointing... I think if there was some monetary incentive to making the playoffs there would be more trading at the deadline and less tanking for draft postion...

Could do this 100 ways but the system I purpose would look like this...

$30 entry fee x 31 KPD Teams = $930


KPD Pacific Division Winner: $20
KPD Central Division Winner: $20
KPD Metro Division Winner: $20
KPD Atlantic Division Winner: $20
KPD Presidents' Trophy Winner: $20

KPD cup Winner $310
Win round three $120 (2 x $120 = $240)
Win round two $20 (4 x $20 = $80)
Win round one $10 (8 x $10 = $80)
Make Playoffs $5 (16 x $5 = $80)


NHL Hart Trophy Winner: $10
NHL Calder Trophy Winner: $10
NHL Vezina Trophy Winner: $10
NHL Norris Trophy Winner $10


The Cup winning team would get $465 and runner up would get $155 and 2 teams losing in semi get there money back $30

[Los Angeles Kings (Sebastien)]

I like this idea

[Deleted]

I didnt like this take at first, however after reading through the payouts and thinking about previous trade deadlines etc, I think a system like this could increase competition and GM activity in the league.

[Deleted]

My issue with the proposed system is that it takes money from the winner and runner up in order to distribute it to teams who finish worse in the playoffs. I can get behind adding some different prizes for the playoffs, but I do think it's sad a team that is capable of making it to the playoffs and past the 1st round is still worried about their draft position. Maybe a team in that position could have been a true contender if they made more moves to go all in. Would an extra 5 or 10 bucks be that much more motivating? If we wanted to add prizes for making the playoffs and getting to the second round I'd rather see it taken from other areas like the regular season player awards than from the winner/runner up prize pool. In this proposed model the winner is taking $85 less and the runner-up is taking $60 less. If I'm a top team I'd be pretty annoyed that I'm taking such a big hit in order to give teams basically a participation prize because they tried instead of tanking the season away for draft position. Imo that should be the standard for everyone even without a $5 reward.

[HabsGM (Ray)]

I also think it might be wise to set limits on length of contract based on player age. These long contracts on older players are going to be an issue.

Something like...

29 and under
7 years

30-34
5 years

35 and up
3 years