Post by CoyotesGM on Sept 6, 2017 13:14:37 GMT -5
Real NHL GM Official Rules:
Rules Subject to Change: for now these are the official rules.
Scoring System - Weekly -Head to Head Points Based - Daily line-up setting
Regular Season Tie Breakers:
1. Head to Head record vs team(s) tied with
2. Most Fantasy Points for entire season
3. Best Division record for entire season
4. Most Wins in entire season
Commissioners and League Monitors
These officials run the drafts, make sure everyone is roster and cap compliant, and generally make sure all rules are followed.
Team Pages
Each team will be required to keep a minimum of 3 pages: 1 for team roster/cap info, 1 for prospects and draft picks, and 1 for team transactions.
Each roster page must contain all active players, all cap hits, all paid minors, any buyouts, any salary retentions, total team salary and cap space.
Each prospect page must contain a list of prospects and a separate list of draft picks separated by draft year
Transactions pages must contain trades, free agent signings with contracts, call ups and send downs with contracts, and waiver pass/RR requests with contracts.
Penalty for not complying to 1st warning (PM AND EMAIL)-Loss of 3rd Round Pick in Upcoming Draft (or Next Year's Draft)
Penalty for not complying to 2nd warning (PM AND EMAIL) - Choice of: -Loss of 2nd Round Pick
-loss of $2M in Cap Space
IF NO REPONSE IS RECEIVED TO 2ND WARNING - EXPULSION FROM LEAGUE - NO EXCEPTIONS
15 Minute Rule
You are allowed to withdraw a bid/claim on a player within 15 minutes of the bid, but you must follow the previous post saying you withdraw your bid. If you delete it read the rule below!
You can't withdraw a bid from anytime after.
Deleting/Editing Posts:
Please if you make an offer in Free Agency do not delete or edit it. If you spell something wrong or something fix it in a following post, or ask a Co-Commissioner to fix it.
If you are caught deleting an offer in free agency or a waiver claim you will be penalized a 2nd round pick in the next up coming draft. If you do not have a 2nd round pick, in that draft it will be the one after. If you have no picks, you will be docked $3M off of the salary cap!
Salary Cap
The salary cap for the upcoming season will be $78M that no GM at any time can exceed. If a GM does exceed the cap at any point, they will receive a 20% cap hit on the transaction that put them over the cap and lose that player. Players that have been demoted to the minor leagues to create roster space still count against the total salary cap until their contract expires or they are released or traded.
Roster Size/Starting Lineup
Each team must field a full roster at all times or be subject to disciplinary actions including cap hits and/or loss of draft picks. Each roster must contain the following starters at all times: 4C, 8W, 6D, 1G. No roster can exceed 24 players at any one time (19 active and 5 reserve). You must have a 2nd goalie under contract on your team, but can only start 1 goalie per night.
Players you call up to your roster who have not played 25 games in any one season (13 for goalies) receive a contract of 250,000 and 4 years from their call up/placement on the roster. Entry Level deals are always 4 years long. (Unpaid prospects being called up)
Players that have been demoted to the minors and approved by League as well as players on the IR do not count towards a roster spot. Players with contracts in the minors still count against the salary cap.
Scoring
Skaters:
Goals : 1.5 points
Assists : 1 points
SHG : 1 points
+/- : .25 points
PIMs : .25 points
GWG : 2 points
FOW: .05 points
Hits: .1 points
Blocked Shots: .25 points
Takeaways: .1 points
Goalies:
Wins : 3 points
Shutouts : 3 points
Goals Against : -1 points
Saves : .1 points
Injured Reserve
In the event that one of your players is placed on the IR (injured reserve) by their real life NHL team, you have the option to place them on your own IR and open up a roster space. Each team will have unlimited IR spots. The IR player's salary still counts toward the cap.
Free Agency
Free Agency will begin each summer on a specified date by the League that will be determined when the off-season schedule is created. The free agent list will consist of players who are not re-signed by their teams, players who were released or waived and not claimed by another team, as well as CHL, NCAA and international free agents who become free agents in real life (No longer draft eligible). FREE AGENTS DO NOT NEED TO SIGN WITH A REAL LIFE TEAM IN ORDER FOR YOU TO SIGN THEM, however if you do sign them and they don't get a real life contract, you're still on the hook for their contract for the life of the contract.
We will have specific guidelines for free agent bidding:
First and foremost, bids can not exceed 4 years in length. Any bid of the same length must be at least $250,000 more than the previous bid to be considered a legitimate high bid. For bids of different years, this does not apply and the higher "point total" wins.
The way to calculate your bid will be as follows: You add the amount of years with the contract amount to give you your "point total". 1 year per point, $1m per point.
Ex) Rangers offer 4 years @ $1 million = 5 pts
Ex) Rangers offer 2 years @ 3.25 million = 5.25 pts
The highest bid after 24 hours without a new bid wins the Free Agent.
Ex. Islanders bid 4 years, $2,000,000 on Michael Ryder
Bolts follow that with a bid of 4 years, $2,500,000
*Once the Bolts bid has gone uncontested for 24 hours the Bolts would win Ryder...
We will also have a minimum bid for each player based on the amount of years of NHL experience they have. A full NHL season is defined as 25 or more games in a season for a skater or 13 or more games in a single season for a goalie. The amount of years is from the beginning of the player's career (first season os 25+), and not the beginning of this league.
The minimum bids are as follows:
0 years: $250,000 (no seasons of 25+ games)
1 year: $300,000
2-3 years: $450,000
4-6 years: $500,000
7-9 years: $625,000
10+ years: $750,000
Special Rules:
1) Any player who is signed that is age 37 or older at the time CANNOT be bought out at any time. The contract will stay on your books for its entirety. These deals are EXEMPT from the Retirement Rule (retired players contracts come off your cap).
Ex Jaromir Jagr: Bids of 1 year $5m, 2 years $4m, 3 years $3m, 4 years $2m are all equal bids. But if you sign him to a 4 year deal and he retires after 2 years, you cannot buy out the remaining 2 years on the deal and it stays on your cap. Keep this in mind when signing older players in UFA.
Re-Signs-
THE REQUIRED FORMAT IS SHOWN BELOW. ANY SUBMISSIONS THAT DO NOT MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS SHOWN BELOW WILL BE DEEMED INVALID.
EX:
Title: Player Name (i.e Zemgus Girgensons)
Body:
(4 years of comparisons)
13/14 - 0.9
14/15 - 1.6
15/16 - 0.9
16/17 - 0.7
1.03 Average (4 year average)
4 yrs @ $3.5M per (Contract term and amount per year)
NHL Entry Draft
Each season, we will hold an entry draft like the NHL. The draft will only consist of players who are draft eligible and drafted in that season's draft ONLY.
The draft order will take into account the real NHL lottery winner and how that shuffles picks.
Ex: Florida finishes the season in 3rd to last place. But they win the real NHL draft lottery. Whatever team in this league finished in 3rd to last will get the top pick, and everyone else slides down. 2nd and 3rd round order will follow reverse standings without taking the lottery into consideration.
The draft will consist of 4 rounds and each team will have 12 hours to make their pick. If your pick is skipped, the next person will be allowed to make their pick, and so on down the line. You will still be allowed to make your pick at any time, but it will only be from the remaining players available.
Any player who was drafted in real life but not in our entry draft will be awarded to that team. They do not become free agents. Undrafted prospects who are no longer draft eligible become UFA's.
Only draft picks for the current and following 2 seasons can be traded.
Real life future draft pick trades made before the start of this league are in effect! Refer to the draft pick tracking spreadsheet for verification of what picks a team has.
If a team misses their pick then the following rules are observed:
If a GM gives notification they will be gone for a few days:
-Either they give us a list of who they want, in order, and we give them a player based on that, or we give them best available as discussed by TAB.
1st round picks:
-The team is skipped but if 5 picks go by, then we give them best available of who's remaining
2nd, 3rd or 4th rounds:
-Team is simply skipped until they make a pick. If the draft ends before they make a pick, then their pick is forfeited.
Draft Order
(added into rules 3/17)
The 10 teams that missed the playoffs during the previous season are awarded the first 10 picks. They draft in order of won-lost record (w-l tie breaker is fewest points scored in that season to the most points), subject to the results of the draft lottery.
The lottery is held among the teams that hold these first 10 picks. The lottery determines the top three draft selections.
The current Champion always picks last, in 22nd place, and the runner-up picks 21st. The other two conference finalists pick 20th and 19th.
The remaining teams draft in order of their won-lost record (w-l tie breaker fewest points scored to most points).
Trades
Any roster player, prospect, or draft pick that you own can be traded. When posting a trade, please include player's name, position, and any contract info [Player A, LW $1,000,000 (2015)]. If it's a prospect, all you need to do is post the player's name and position and put the word "prospect" in parenthesis after it [Player A, LW (prospect)]. If you are trading a draft pick, please include the year and round of the pick, as well as the team who the pick belongs to [2016 1st Round Pick (NYI)], or if the draft order has been determined, use the draft pick number [2016 1st Round Pick, #10 (NYI)].
Each trade must receive 7 votes of Approval or Denial by League Members to be Approved or Denied.
Salary Retention
League officials have decided to allow salary retention in trades with the following guidelines:
Salary up to 50% can be retained
If salary is retained, it must be retained for ALL remaining years of a contract
A player may only have salary retained once. If he is traded a second time there cannot be salary retention
Each team can only have 2 retentions at one time (this means a team retaining salary, not receiving the player on reduced salary)
A new section will be added under buyouts on every teams rosters, named Salary Retained, this will list the players that are no longer on the team but have retained salary in a deal
If a player is traded with salary retained, if the new team buys that player out, both new team, and original team can reduce their cap amount by the buyout percentage. Ex: Original team retains 1M in salary while new team takes on 2M on a player with 3 years remaining. If the new team buys him out that year, both teams can cut their cap hits to 30% of what it is for the buyout -> 300k for original team, and 600k for the new team, both for 3 years still
Conditional Picks - are allowed - as long as it doesn't get ridiculous.
UFA:
Any player who's contract expires at the end of the current season can be re-signed. The contract offers must fall in line with the free agency bidding guidelines, and must be approved by League Members in the manner that trades are approved. You will post what you believe is a fair re-sign amount for the player, and League Members will vote on whether or not it is fair value for said player. You will have 2 opportunities to re-sign the player, if you are unable to "reach an agreement" with the player, he becomes a free agent. You are allowed to bid on that player in FA.
RFA:
We will not be using RFA in this league.
Special Rule for Players Coming Off 1 Year Contracts:
If you sign a player to a 1 year contract, when it comes time to resign that player your offer cannot have a lower annual salary than 75% of the previous seasons salary. This is to prevent 1 year contracts in free agency at ridiculous salary to then resign that player at a minimum deal. This rule does not apply to any players coming off multiyear contracts. Also keep in mind the minimum salary based on how many seasons of experience a player has.
Ex: TB signs Jeff Skinner in UFA to a 1 year $4M deal. When it comes time to resign him next season, the offer may not be lower than $3M per season regardless of length.
Ex: TB signs Andy Greene in UFA to a 1 year $10M deal. When it comes time to resign him next season, the offer may not be lower than $7.5M per season regardless of length.
Call-Ups
Any prospect who is called up without any seasons with 25 or more NHL games played (13 for goalies) will receive a contract of $250,000 for 4 seasons (less 1 year for each 25+ GP NHL season). You must have the cap and roster space to make the move, which will be confirmed by the TAB before the call-up is approved-at which time you can add the player to your roster.
0 years: $250,000 (no seasons of 25+ games) 4 year contract
1 year: $300,000 3 year contract
2 years: $450,000 2 year contract
3 years $500,000 1 year contract
4 years - Normal free agent cost/ no term commitment
Send Downs
You can send down as many players to your minor league system as you'd like as long as your NHL roster is compliant with enough players. There are three ways to send a player down:
1) Waiver Pass - Each team will get 3 waiver passes per season. This is for players with 1 or more accrued NHL seasons. That player does not have to pass through waivers and gets sent directly to the minor leagues. Once you use your 3 waiver passes, all future players that are sent down for the rest of the season must go through waivers or be eligible to use the Rookie Rule.
2) Rookie Rule - This means the player has not accrued any NHL seasons, and can be sent down without passing through waivers and without using a waiver pass.
3) Waivers - See below
As with call-ups, please refrain from making roster moves until the request is approved by a TAB member. Any player that you send to the minors still counts towards your salary cap for the life of his contract and must be reflected on your roster page as "Paid Minors."
Waivers
You can place a player on waivers, but he can be claimed by any other team who is cap and roster space compliant within 24 hours of being put on waivers. If more than one team places a claim, the team with the higher waiver claim will win the player.
If the player is not claimed, there are two options you have. You can either send the player to the minors, and absorb the contract to open up a roster spot, or you can release the player with a cap hit for the life of his contract. Please specify in your initial post whether you'd like him to be released or sent to the minors if he clears waivers and post the player's contract info as well.
Buyout Cap Hits:
Players being bought out will have the following cap hits and cannot be re-signed until the next season.
4+ years left on their contract = 40% per season cap hit
3 years left on their contract = 30% per season cap hit
2 years left on their contract = 20% per season cap hit
1 year left on their contract = 10% per season cap hit
Ex) Rangers wish to place Player A $1,000,000 (2015) with the intent to release if he clears for a cap hit of $100,000 (2015)
Ex) Rangers wish to place Player A $1,000,000 (2018) with the intent to release if he clears for a cap hit of $400,000 (2018)
League Officials will verify buyout cap hit is correct when you put the player on waivers with intent to buyout.
** You CANNOT sign the player you have bought out until the next league year.**
KHL Issue
If a player leaves the NHL in the middle of a contract to join the KHL or another European league, their contract can be taken off the cap here. The current owner keeps the rights to that player for the length and term of their current contract. If the player returns to the NHL, their prior contract is put back on the books for the team that owns their rights. If the contract has expired before the player returns to the NHL, they are a UFA.
Retirement Rule
Should a player retire before his contract expires, he will be removed from your roster and no cap penalty will be charged.
If a player that has been bought out retires, the cap hit stays on the books for the length of the buyout. It does NOT come off the books.
Playoffs
12 teams (top 6 from each conference, 1st and 2nd place from each gets bye in round 1) 3v6, 4v5 - starting 2017
round 2 - 1st vs lowest seed from round 1, 2nd vs remaining team
round 3 - conference final
round 4 - league final
**Playoff Tie Breaker - in the event of a tie in points at the end of the match, the higher seeded team in Season Standings will be the winner.**
Rules Subject to Change: for now these are the official rules.
Scoring System - Weekly -Head to Head Points Based - Daily line-up setting
Regular Season Tie Breakers:
1. Head to Head record vs team(s) tied with
2. Most Fantasy Points for entire season
3. Best Division record for entire season
4. Most Wins in entire season
Commissioners and League Monitors
These officials run the drafts, make sure everyone is roster and cap compliant, and generally make sure all rules are followed.
Team Pages
Each team will be required to keep a minimum of 3 pages: 1 for team roster/cap info, 1 for prospects and draft picks, and 1 for team transactions.
Each roster page must contain all active players, all cap hits, all paid minors, any buyouts, any salary retentions, total team salary and cap space.
Each prospect page must contain a list of prospects and a separate list of draft picks separated by draft year
Transactions pages must contain trades, free agent signings with contracts, call ups and send downs with contracts, and waiver pass/RR requests with contracts.
Penalty for not complying to 1st warning (PM AND EMAIL)-Loss of 3rd Round Pick in Upcoming Draft (or Next Year's Draft)
Penalty for not complying to 2nd warning (PM AND EMAIL) - Choice of: -Loss of 2nd Round Pick
-loss of $2M in Cap Space
IF NO REPONSE IS RECEIVED TO 2ND WARNING - EXPULSION FROM LEAGUE - NO EXCEPTIONS
15 Minute Rule
You are allowed to withdraw a bid/claim on a player within 15 minutes of the bid, but you must follow the previous post saying you withdraw your bid. If you delete it read the rule below!
You can't withdraw a bid from anytime after.
Deleting/Editing Posts:
Please if you make an offer in Free Agency do not delete or edit it. If you spell something wrong or something fix it in a following post, or ask a Co-Commissioner to fix it.
If you are caught deleting an offer in free agency or a waiver claim you will be penalized a 2nd round pick in the next up coming draft. If you do not have a 2nd round pick, in that draft it will be the one after. If you have no picks, you will be docked $3M off of the salary cap!
Salary Cap
The salary cap for the upcoming season will be $78M that no GM at any time can exceed. If a GM does exceed the cap at any point, they will receive a 20% cap hit on the transaction that put them over the cap and lose that player. Players that have been demoted to the minor leagues to create roster space still count against the total salary cap until their contract expires or they are released or traded.
Roster Size/Starting Lineup
Each team must field a full roster at all times or be subject to disciplinary actions including cap hits and/or loss of draft picks. Each roster must contain the following starters at all times: 4C, 8W, 6D, 1G. No roster can exceed 24 players at any one time (19 active and 5 reserve). You must have a 2nd goalie under contract on your team, but can only start 1 goalie per night.
Players you call up to your roster who have not played 25 games in any one season (13 for goalies) receive a contract of 250,000 and 4 years from their call up/placement on the roster. Entry Level deals are always 4 years long. (Unpaid prospects being called up)
Players that have been demoted to the minors and approved by League as well as players on the IR do not count towards a roster spot. Players with contracts in the minors still count against the salary cap.
Scoring
Skaters:
Goals : 1.5 points
Assists : 1 points
SHG : 1 points
+/- : .25 points
PIMs : .25 points
GWG : 2 points
FOW: .05 points
Hits: .1 points
Blocked Shots: .25 points
Takeaways: .1 points
Goalies:
Wins : 3 points
Shutouts : 3 points
Goals Against : -1 points
Saves : .1 points
Injured Reserve
In the event that one of your players is placed on the IR (injured reserve) by their real life NHL team, you have the option to place them on your own IR and open up a roster space. Each team will have unlimited IR spots. The IR player's salary still counts toward the cap.
Free Agency
Free Agency will begin each summer on a specified date by the League that will be determined when the off-season schedule is created. The free agent list will consist of players who are not re-signed by their teams, players who were released or waived and not claimed by another team, as well as CHL, NCAA and international free agents who become free agents in real life (No longer draft eligible). FREE AGENTS DO NOT NEED TO SIGN WITH A REAL LIFE TEAM IN ORDER FOR YOU TO SIGN THEM, however if you do sign them and they don't get a real life contract, you're still on the hook for their contract for the life of the contract.
We will have specific guidelines for free agent bidding:
First and foremost, bids can not exceed 4 years in length. Any bid of the same length must be at least $250,000 more than the previous bid to be considered a legitimate high bid. For bids of different years, this does not apply and the higher "point total" wins.
The way to calculate your bid will be as follows: You add the amount of years with the contract amount to give you your "point total". 1 year per point, $1m per point.
Ex) Rangers offer 4 years @ $1 million = 5 pts
Ex) Rangers offer 2 years @ 3.25 million = 5.25 pts
The highest bid after 24 hours without a new bid wins the Free Agent.
Ex. Islanders bid 4 years, $2,000,000 on Michael Ryder
Bolts follow that with a bid of 4 years, $2,500,000
*Once the Bolts bid has gone uncontested for 24 hours the Bolts would win Ryder...
We will also have a minimum bid for each player based on the amount of years of NHL experience they have. A full NHL season is defined as 25 or more games in a season for a skater or 13 or more games in a single season for a goalie. The amount of years is from the beginning of the player's career (first season os 25+), and not the beginning of this league.
The minimum bids are as follows:
0 years: $250,000 (no seasons of 25+ games)
1 year: $300,000
2-3 years: $450,000
4-6 years: $500,000
7-9 years: $625,000
10+ years: $750,000
Special Rules:
1) Any player who is signed that is age 37 or older at the time CANNOT be bought out at any time. The contract will stay on your books for its entirety. These deals are EXEMPT from the Retirement Rule (retired players contracts come off your cap).
Ex Jaromir Jagr: Bids of 1 year $5m, 2 years $4m, 3 years $3m, 4 years $2m are all equal bids. But if you sign him to a 4 year deal and he retires after 2 years, you cannot buy out the remaining 2 years on the deal and it stays on your cap. Keep this in mind when signing older players in UFA.
Re-Signs-
THE REQUIRED FORMAT IS SHOWN BELOW. ANY SUBMISSIONS THAT DO NOT MEET THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS SHOWN BELOW WILL BE DEEMED INVALID.
EX:
Title: Player Name (i.e Zemgus Girgensons)
Body:
(4 years of comparisons)
13/14 - 0.9
14/15 - 1.6
15/16 - 0.9
16/17 - 0.7
1.03 Average (4 year average)
4 yrs @ $3.5M per (Contract term and amount per year)
NHL Entry Draft
Each season, we will hold an entry draft like the NHL. The draft will only consist of players who are draft eligible and drafted in that season's draft ONLY.
The draft order will take into account the real NHL lottery winner and how that shuffles picks.
Ex: Florida finishes the season in 3rd to last place. But they win the real NHL draft lottery. Whatever team in this league finished in 3rd to last will get the top pick, and everyone else slides down. 2nd and 3rd round order will follow reverse standings without taking the lottery into consideration.
The draft will consist of 4 rounds and each team will have 12 hours to make their pick. If your pick is skipped, the next person will be allowed to make their pick, and so on down the line. You will still be allowed to make your pick at any time, but it will only be from the remaining players available.
Any player who was drafted in real life but not in our entry draft will be awarded to that team. They do not become free agents. Undrafted prospects who are no longer draft eligible become UFA's.
Only draft picks for the current and following 2 seasons can be traded.
Real life future draft pick trades made before the start of this league are in effect! Refer to the draft pick tracking spreadsheet for verification of what picks a team has.
If a team misses their pick then the following rules are observed:
If a GM gives notification they will be gone for a few days:
-Either they give us a list of who they want, in order, and we give them a player based on that, or we give them best available as discussed by TAB.
1st round picks:
-The team is skipped but if 5 picks go by, then we give them best available of who's remaining
2nd, 3rd or 4th rounds:
-Team is simply skipped until they make a pick. If the draft ends before they make a pick, then their pick is forfeited.
Draft Order
(added into rules 3/17)
The 10 teams that missed the playoffs during the previous season are awarded the first 10 picks. They draft in order of won-lost record (w-l tie breaker is fewest points scored in that season to the most points), subject to the results of the draft lottery.
The lottery is held among the teams that hold these first 10 picks. The lottery determines the top three draft selections.
The current Champion always picks last, in 22nd place, and the runner-up picks 21st. The other two conference finalists pick 20th and 19th.
The remaining teams draft in order of their won-lost record (w-l tie breaker fewest points scored to most points).
Trades
Any roster player, prospect, or draft pick that you own can be traded. When posting a trade, please include player's name, position, and any contract info [Player A, LW $1,000,000 (2015)]. If it's a prospect, all you need to do is post the player's name and position and put the word "prospect" in parenthesis after it [Player A, LW (prospect)]. If you are trading a draft pick, please include the year and round of the pick, as well as the team who the pick belongs to [2016 1st Round Pick (NYI)], or if the draft order has been determined, use the draft pick number [2016 1st Round Pick, #10 (NYI)].
Each trade must receive 7 votes of Approval or Denial by League Members to be Approved or Denied.
Salary Retention
League officials have decided to allow salary retention in trades with the following guidelines:
Salary up to 50% can be retained
If salary is retained, it must be retained for ALL remaining years of a contract
A player may only have salary retained once. If he is traded a second time there cannot be salary retention
Each team can only have 2 retentions at one time (this means a team retaining salary, not receiving the player on reduced salary)
A new section will be added under buyouts on every teams rosters, named Salary Retained, this will list the players that are no longer on the team but have retained salary in a deal
If a player is traded with salary retained, if the new team buys that player out, both new team, and original team can reduce their cap amount by the buyout percentage. Ex: Original team retains 1M in salary while new team takes on 2M on a player with 3 years remaining. If the new team buys him out that year, both teams can cut their cap hits to 30% of what it is for the buyout -> 300k for original team, and 600k for the new team, both for 3 years still
Conditional Picks - are allowed - as long as it doesn't get ridiculous.
UFA:
Any player who's contract expires at the end of the current season can be re-signed. The contract offers must fall in line with the free agency bidding guidelines, and must be approved by League Members in the manner that trades are approved. You will post what you believe is a fair re-sign amount for the player, and League Members will vote on whether or not it is fair value for said player. You will have 2 opportunities to re-sign the player, if you are unable to "reach an agreement" with the player, he becomes a free agent. You are allowed to bid on that player in FA.
RFA:
We will not be using RFA in this league.
Special Rule for Players Coming Off 1 Year Contracts:
If you sign a player to a 1 year contract, when it comes time to resign that player your offer cannot have a lower annual salary than 75% of the previous seasons salary. This is to prevent 1 year contracts in free agency at ridiculous salary to then resign that player at a minimum deal. This rule does not apply to any players coming off multiyear contracts. Also keep in mind the minimum salary based on how many seasons of experience a player has.
Ex: TB signs Jeff Skinner in UFA to a 1 year $4M deal. When it comes time to resign him next season, the offer may not be lower than $3M per season regardless of length.
Ex: TB signs Andy Greene in UFA to a 1 year $10M deal. When it comes time to resign him next season, the offer may not be lower than $7.5M per season regardless of length.
Call-Ups
Any prospect who is called up without any seasons with 25 or more NHL games played (13 for goalies) will receive a contract of $250,000 for 4 seasons (less 1 year for each 25+ GP NHL season). You must have the cap and roster space to make the move, which will be confirmed by the TAB before the call-up is approved-at which time you can add the player to your roster.
0 years: $250,000 (no seasons of 25+ games) 4 year contract
1 year: $300,000 3 year contract
2 years: $450,000 2 year contract
3 years $500,000 1 year contract
4 years - Normal free agent cost/ no term commitment
Send Downs
You can send down as many players to your minor league system as you'd like as long as your NHL roster is compliant with enough players. There are three ways to send a player down:
1) Waiver Pass - Each team will get 3 waiver passes per season. This is for players with 1 or more accrued NHL seasons. That player does not have to pass through waivers and gets sent directly to the minor leagues. Once you use your 3 waiver passes, all future players that are sent down for the rest of the season must go through waivers or be eligible to use the Rookie Rule.
2) Rookie Rule - This means the player has not accrued any NHL seasons, and can be sent down without passing through waivers and without using a waiver pass.
3) Waivers - See below
As with call-ups, please refrain from making roster moves until the request is approved by a TAB member. Any player that you send to the minors still counts towards your salary cap for the life of his contract and must be reflected on your roster page as "Paid Minors."
Waivers
You can place a player on waivers, but he can be claimed by any other team who is cap and roster space compliant within 24 hours of being put on waivers. If more than one team places a claim, the team with the higher waiver claim will win the player.
If the player is not claimed, there are two options you have. You can either send the player to the minors, and absorb the contract to open up a roster spot, or you can release the player with a cap hit for the life of his contract. Please specify in your initial post whether you'd like him to be released or sent to the minors if he clears waivers and post the player's contract info as well.
Buyout Cap Hits:
Players being bought out will have the following cap hits and cannot be re-signed until the next season.
4+ years left on their contract = 40% per season cap hit
3 years left on their contract = 30% per season cap hit
2 years left on their contract = 20% per season cap hit
1 year left on their contract = 10% per season cap hit
Ex) Rangers wish to place Player A $1,000,000 (2015) with the intent to release if he clears for a cap hit of $100,000 (2015)
Ex) Rangers wish to place Player A $1,000,000 (2018) with the intent to release if he clears for a cap hit of $400,000 (2018)
League Officials will verify buyout cap hit is correct when you put the player on waivers with intent to buyout.
** You CANNOT sign the player you have bought out until the next league year.**
KHL Issue
If a player leaves the NHL in the middle of a contract to join the KHL or another European league, their contract can be taken off the cap here. The current owner keeps the rights to that player for the length and term of their current contract. If the player returns to the NHL, their prior contract is put back on the books for the team that owns their rights. If the contract has expired before the player returns to the NHL, they are a UFA.
Retirement Rule
Should a player retire before his contract expires, he will be removed from your roster and no cap penalty will be charged.
If a player that has been bought out retires, the cap hit stays on the books for the length of the buyout. It does NOT come off the books.
Playoffs
12 teams (top 6 from each conference, 1st and 2nd place from each gets bye in round 1) 3v6, 4v5 - starting 2017
round 2 - 1st vs lowest seed from round 1, 2nd vs remaining team
round 3 - conference final
round 4 - league final
**Playoff Tie Breaker - in the event of a tie in points at the end of the match, the higher seeded team in Season Standings will be the winner.**
