LTC Restrictions

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What are your thoughts on LTC restrictions?

Have LTC include some form of no-trade clause for at least the season signed.
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45%
No restrictions, LTC treated as any other free agent contract here. Player can be traded immediately but with usual cap hit. After being LTC'd and traded, player can be LTC'd again in future by new team.
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Player limited to one LTC extension in career. Teams can trade LTC player without restriction but he cannot be extended later by new team (must be tagged at top 5/10 elite salary or test market).
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15%
 
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Re: LTC Restrictions

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Jared A wrote:One thing I will say in defense is this...

There are teams that still sign players to next to no salary, huge signing bonuses long term, and then trade them. So, it's not uncommon to have players in the league making next to nothing after being traded.

If a 200% signing bonus doesn't slow them down from trading them, then let them trade. I've never been a supporter to limiting any type of trade.
That can be true with contracts if the winning bid ended up being that way with low salary and high SB. If the league is going to generate it's own contract terms, though, to me we'd want them to be structured in a way best overall for the health of the league. We have to make up some general numbers to apply to these situations and contract structures, so best I think to contemplate the best way of doing that. While other players on the open market could end up with different looking contracts, the ones written by the league I think should be setup in a way deemed most beneficial overall.
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