End of Life Keepers

[goon]

Dear Papa Bear GMs,
as you are well aware, we strive to produce the best fantasy hockey experience possible in our league.
As we journey through our fantasy sport passion, we always try to learn and improve.
Since the introduction of keepers to our league, we have been hearing different opinions on how to handle keepers from length of contract to trading within or outside of player contract window perspective.
You spoke and we listened. There are numerous GMs in our league, who enjoy drafting to the highest possible degree. They would like to see top players available for the draft, instead of them being recycles from one team to another as their contracts expire after 3 or 4 (in case of DIR) window. All of us can look at the below from their team's perspective while submitting their votes. And we can understand it. Some can lose or gain more than the others. However, we urge you to vote keeping the best interest of the league in mind over your own benefits based on the players you have today.
And since what we are asking you here, goes against some of the rules that were communicating to all of you/us previously, we would not want to make decisions without running it by you.
And thus, would like to put to vote a following proposal.

Vote "Yes" if you believe that we should limit the keeper contact to one term only. Meaning that if you have drafted a player that is a keeper for you the most years he can be kept is either 3 or 4 (in DIR case) You can trade that players at any point while he is on your team and the new team inherits the remainder of his contact. (if you trade Stamkos in his 2nd year, he will have the remainder of that year + another year on the new team). If you trade a player in the last year of his contract, he becomes a rental for the team that gets him, as this would be his last year.
The biggest change is that the new team is not able to sign a player they traded for to a new contract at any point of time (either during the season or in off-seasons). They can only inherit the contract of the player.
This rule will in fact turn a lot of star players back to being eligible for the draft once their first and only contract expires. (unless  they are re-drafted in keeper rounds in subsequent draft)

Vote "No" if you want to be able to trade players under contract for an opportunity that some other team can resign them for another 3 years contract without that player being eligible for a draft. Thus we might never see James Neal type of players being eligible for draft. And only way for you to get them would be trading for them at some point or another.

Thank you for you time and vote.

  ----- Papa Bear owners board.

[Igorz88]

Let me add my two cents please...first of just so we all clear the majority on this subject doesnt automatically change anything.  It simply means that we will look over the possibility, since initially the proposal was to have keepers until they expire on their round value.  As Marat mentioned in his post (some people have more to gain then others on this transition).  Second let me explain what the option holds in it:  If we choose to proceed as planned, meaning extending contracts, if you are to trade a player DURING the season his contract will NOT be extended on the new owners team, however that owner will have the rights to trade him in the offseason for another keeper if he chooses to do so.  On the other hand if the owner decides to wait until the off-season and trade him then...and only then will that contract be extended for another 3 years.  So in essence both option have a sort of rent a player idealogy in it, but in option number one if someone is renting that player, that player will automatically be back in the pool next year (if in the final year) and in option number two the owner receiving the new player still has a chance to get something for him in the offseason.

So please make sure you understand, before just clicking yes or no.