What does the Maple Leafs signing Auston Matthews mean for the next generation of young stars needing contracts out of their entry-level deals? Yes, we are talking about Brayden Point. [Raw Charge]
This type of thinking will inevitably come to hockey. And possibly with even more vigor than baseball. Hockey has exactly the sort of restricted free agency and incentives to take advantage of cost controlled young players. And exacerbating the issue is the hard salary cap that doesn’t exist in baseball and tighter aging curves. Put that all together, and we can be confident that at some point in the near future, the thrift that has frozen MLB free agency will come the NHL.