FREE AGENCY - July 8th

JULY 8th 2020

NOON ET

- UFAs/RFAs market opens Wednesday July 8th ( Noon ET)

UFA (Transactions/unrestricted free agents) and RFA (Transactions/ Restricted Free Agents)players (scroll to the bottom to see goaltenders).


When you check UFAs and RFAs after free agency has started (July 8th),  some players might already got an offer, click the second tab (UFAs/RFAs with Offers) 24 hours after the first offer made to a player, you won't be allowed to make an offer so act fast, the player will select the best 3 offers and move to the deciding section (3rd tab) for another 24 hours. Portal will select between offers, 60% for the best offer, 30% for the second one and 10% for the least best offer. So if you wait too long before placing bids on the players you want, it might be too late already, every year, all good UFAs/RFAs will get offers at noon when it opens.

Remember, all contracts of 1.5$ mil + per season, players can't be sent to the minors, NHL only.

Maximum amount of players: 20 to 25 in Pro, 40 total.


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.  Will will use the chart below.



AVERAGE ANNUAL VALUE COMPENSATION

Bug on the portal, these players ARE RFAs not UFAs, so if you make an offer to one of these players, make sure you have the picks for the compensation.

Dallas - Roland McKoewn
Pittsbugh - B. Carlo
Hurricanes - Philippe Desrosiers

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 8th) can NOT trade them unless they match the offers these players will receive. 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.


Remember, if you acquire a UFA player via a transaction, you'll only have 2 attempts to sign him, not 3. If a player is on his last contract year and rejects all the offers, he becomes automatically UFA on July 1st 2021. He can still be traded but his new team won't be allowed to sign him even if the portal gives you the option to do so. He becomes a rental for the playoffs. UFA rights can not be traded after the trade deadline.

- You can still buy out contracts but at a full rate (100%) until the trade deadline.

- You can submit position change by emailing me with the link where we can see the player assigned at that position (it has to be one of the link we have in the league's rules).

email me with any questions you may have

Steve

Marc-Andre Billette

How's everyone feeling about Free Agency tomorrow? I for one am pumped.

FREE AGENCY - July 8th
July 8th NOON ET

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Jeremy H Same here Dan. Sabres only have 1.7M of cap room but with a full 20-guy roster so not much left for shopping. Maybe some depth guys if I have lucky.

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