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Originally Posted by idio3
Why are CHL players "forced" to play out their contracts in-game? NHL teams can take "their" players out of juniors at any year they see as appropriate - why are European clubs "discriminated" against? 
I understand that some players would say "no" if they're expecting an NHL call-up soon enough, but I don't think that too many juniors without NHL contracts would reject a multi-million-dollar offer from SKA SPb if it came, would they? Is there a coding issue that forbids this sort of thing? |
I'm not going to speak on the coding issue, but for 99.9% of the players who are playing in the CHL have aspirations of playing in the NHL. I can't think of (and I'm not saying it hasn't happened) even a player whose left. Actually, I think there was one guy in the Q a few years ago...but it just doesn't happen. The players typically want to stay here for development.
(Note: The Auston Matthews issue was different.)