no Kaprizov

If we can't sign Kaprizov, I'm all in on the tank. Might as well get Shane Wright out of all this suffering...

I’d rather tank for Wright than trade a ton of assets for Eichel any day!

"If a player who is signed to an entry-level contract and is 18 or 19 years of age (as of September 15 of the signing year), does not play in a minimum of 10 NHL games (including both regular season and playoffs; AHL games do not count), their contract is considered to ‘slide’, or extend, by one year. For example, if a player signed an ELC for three seasons from 2015-16 to 2017-2018, and their contract slides, their contract is now effective from 2016-17 to 2018-19. An exception to this rule is that if the player is 19 on September 15 of the first year of their contract, and turns 20 between September 16 and December 31, their contract does not slide."

The part that’s relevant here is that second bolded section. And Rossi already slid a year due to Covid, so technically he’ll fall into that second category where he’ll be 19 on the 15th of September but turns 20 roughly a week later on the 23rd. So falls into that September 16th to December 31st exception.

Ergo, his contract doesn’t slide. He may very well be 19 right now, but he's going to be 20 as soon as next week. He already slid once due to Covid, and as shown above he's ineligible to have his contract slide again even if he’s playing down in Iowa.

Or are you still fuzzy on the reasons as to why Boldy "burned" a year of his ELC last year by playing in Iowa as well?

He was 18 on September 15th of the first year of his contract. He turned 19 eight days later.

You sure?

That contract was slid because of Covid. He still has the full three years of ELC contract left. If he plays this year, and is now fully recovered and healthy... which he is, then technically this is the first year of his three year contract. Not last year. Which would mean he falls under the exception.

It's a definite grey area, but it's a very important distinction. One that shouldn't be overlooked. I'm not saying I think you're wrong, because you very well could be right. Nor am I saying I am either, I'm just saying that it begs the question. Rossi's case is anything but the regular status quo, and isn't such a clear and cut and dry scenario as we would all like it to be.

Again, normally these situations are handled by the official first year of a prospects contract. If we go by that, his official start and first year would happen to be this year, not last year. Again, if that's the case. Then Rossi would fall under the exception, and would more or less be more akin to those players coming into the league as a college player, such as Boldy, and burn the first year of his ELC.