Free Agency and buyouts

Hey!

Only 3 days left to buy out players at a 66% rate!  Only 3 days to let us know if you have players in the UNRESTRICTED PLAYERS list, please take a second look at it even if you already did!  I've seen some players who shouldn't be there,  make sure they aren't yours!

FREE AGENCY starts Friday evening at midnight ET.

For those who aren't used to this, read the following carefully.

Do your homework now to find the hidden gems.  All contracts $1.5M and over will play in the NHL, can't be sent to the minors.  Salary cap is $75 M, floor's at $55.4M, you must comply to this by the first day of the regular season.

You need players for all positions PRO and FARM and at least 4 goaltenders rated above 20.  Players below 20 can be used as spare when there's an injury but not on a regular basis.

All players that will receive bid(s) between Friday night midnight and Saturday night 11pm (1st day of Free Agency),  will stay an extra 24 hours on free agency to receive more offers (for a total of 47-48 hours), all players receiving bids after Saturday night 11PM will only be on the market for 24 hours total. So it gives everybody, at least 47-48 hours to bid on any player starting Friday night midnight.

After bids are closed on a specific player, portal picks the best 3 offers, 24 hours later, he ll pick a winner (best offer 60%, 2nd best offer 30%, 3rd best offer 10% chances of winning the bid)  You can not make offers to more than 18 players at the same time.


Be careful offering crazy contracts, especially to older players because even if they retire, their salaries stay with your team.

When you go in the UFA/RFA section, there`s 4 tabs at the top, as soon as a player receive 1 offer from a team, he goes under the second tab (UFA'S With OFFERS) so check the first 2 tabs for the players who are available.

REMEMBER YOUR ROSTER MAX LIMITS: PRO 25, FARM 30.


RFAs
If you make an offer to a RFA, you need to have the picks accordingly to the chart as a compensation in case his former team does not match your offer.

AVERAGE ANNUAL VALUE COMPENSATION
Less than $1,205,377 Nothing
$1,205,377-to-$1,826,328 Third-round pick
$1,826,328-to-$3,652,659 Second-round pick
$3,652,659-to-$5,478,986 First and third-round picks
$5,478,986-to-$7,305,316 First, second and third-round picks
$7,305,316-to-$9,131,645 Two firsts, a second and third-round picks
$9,131,645 or greater Four first-round picks

so for example, if you make an offer of $4 million per season to a RFA, you will need one 1st round pick and one 3rd pick in the next 2 draft years. The team owning the player will have 2 (two) days to match the offer. The team acquiring the player will decide what picks are being sent to the other team in case they have several picks available in a specific round.

NOTE : Team owning RFA players (who are testing the market on July 1st) can NOT trade them after June 30th. You can NOT make offers to your own RFAs until July 15th. After July 18th, all RFAs who haven't received an offer will become UFA.

Be prepared!

Working on the draft order on the portal as we speak, should be done by the end of the evening, we have one (1) compensatory pick this year, The Carolina Huricanes, they will pick 32nd before the 2nd round starts.

Steve

Steeve Cyr

Correction: you need AT LEAST 5 Goaltenders, 4 of them rated above 20

Free Agency and buyouts
starts Friday evening

• 1 teams Like this  9 years

Mathieu Jobin

When is the draft again ?

Free Agency and buyouts
starts Friday evening

• 1 teams Like this  9 years