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Increased demands would include more 1 way contracts. As it is you can convince 87 overall players, and even higher if the player is green in greed, to take two way contracts and that is quite ridiculous. By 85 overall 1 way should pretty much be the enforced norm with players not willing to take a two way at all at that point. Getting player demands to be more in line with what they reasonably should be would really solve most of this. It would genuinely solve a good chunk of demoting teams trading players away too as there would be fewer teams with the cap space to trade for higher quality players. As I asked when the motion was put forth to increase the cap from 60 million so long ago; "What is the point of having a cap if it isn't forcing you to make difficult decisions on who to keep when you have a good team?" Edit: Look at how trading in the NHL has really dried up over the past two seasons. Why? Because most teams are very close to the cap. As in most teams are within ~ 2 million of the cap. In the past most teams had anywhere from 5-10 million in cap space and there were a lot of trades. One more thing I would like to point out in relation to players at 85 demanding 1 way contracts. Something you see when a player reaches 83 overall is the notion that they feel like they are too good for the affiliate. So why aren't they demanding 1 way contracts in negotiations then? Why are they accepting two way contracts on contract renewals?