New Champs!!!

Congrats to Philly, for  winning the cup, great job Mike!  Same to you Terry, really nice run!

Another Mike won the championship in the AHL, the Marlies got their first title!

Awards winners will be announced tomorrow

GMs who haven't confirmed yet they ll be back

Ottawa
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh

you have until Friday to let us know.

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what's coming up


June 1st

- Trade session re opens for 2 weeks (June 15th at 11:59PM ET)

- You can buy out players at preferential rates (33% / 66% - see league’s rules) till June 30th, Send us a email. Other months of the year buyout rate is 100%.  Buyouts count toward salary cap.

Salary cap for next season is still not determined, should be around $70-71  M, we should have a specific amount on this by the end of the summer.

- Last chance to sign your RFA/UFA (June 15th is the last day- 11:59 PM ET) To keep your rights on your RFA(s), you need to submit at least one contract offer by June 15th, if you don’t, He/they will be become UFA(s).

Note: careful with you contract offers. Signing bonus will count toward your salary cap. Too many No Trade clauses can tie your hands (Player might accepted to traded after half of the season to specific teams only). You are responsible for all the years on the contract even if a player retires or leave for another league.

Reminder:
1- season 15-16 is the last one where you can send in the minors players with contracts under $2M/season, starting season 2016-17, only players who have a $1.5M /year or less contracts would be available to play in the minors, all other players will be forced to play PRO.

2- July 1st, maximum amount of players allowed in your roster goes from 60 to 55 (Max: 25 Pro, 30 Farm)

3- UFA rights have no value, they ll hit the free agent market on July 1st unless you haven't exhausted all 3 attempts to sign them.


JUNE 16th to JUNE 30th

Re rates, new contracts will be applied.   Once new rates are on the portal, you will have to;

- Go over your players, check new rates and report any obvious errors.

- Go over the unrestricted players list (Transactions/Unrestricted Free Agents) and MAKE SURE ONE OR MORE OF YOUR PLAYER(S)/Prospects ARE NOT IN THE LIST, if it’s the case, report it. Several leagues use the same rerates file, so it happens that players’ names can be spelled differently and when it’s the case 2 different players are created (example; Washington has Alex Ovechkin, rerates file might have him as Alexander Ovechkin, then we would have 2 Ovechkins, one with Washington and one in the UFA database, you are responsible to report your players found in the UFA database.

- Go over the unrestricted players list (Transactions/Unrestricted Free Agents) and look for your prospects and claim them, IF YOU DON’T YOU MIGHT LOSE HIM/THEM, it’s your responsibility. After claiming them, you can ask the league (or not) to deactivate those who haven’t played 10 NHL games last year and leave them as prospects. Usually if you don't claim one of your player and somebody else signs him you have till December first to claim him (and pay $2 m), but if one of your player wasn't claimed, he signs with another team and then get traded, you have lost him for good even if this is before December 1st.

This above is REALLY IMPORTANT, if you don’t do it you might lose some good players.

- No Signature, No Trade.

New GM will be named for the Jets following the entry draft this summer.

Starting June 1st, We expect you guys to answer all your messages within 48 hours again.

We will shortly send another email regarding the beginning of the 5th season on July 1st.


Steve