*Minimum Contracts: What to do?

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I can't speak for every GM's reason behind voting "No" on this, but here's a quick list on reasons why I think GMs may have voted no.

~Adds another thing that GMs and HO have to keep track of every off season
~Involves retroactively changing contracts that were already signed/existing, don't like the idea of altering existing contracts
~It's basically the same as having TPE incentivized contracts, which aren't allowed
~One GM said they saw it as "punishing success"
~Frankly, the rule as-is is very GM friendly because we can lock up super active players for very very cheap

I think a big reason many voted no is that it would be far to punitive to implement it immediately. Too many teams structured their contracts with the next 2 seasons in mind, to suddenly change the rule on them would really screw them up. Had the proposal been designed to either grandfather in current contracts or at least implement some sort of soft and hard cap, or several other ways to ramp up the new rule it would have been received positively.