GMs be ready for June 1st!

Stanley Cup Finale starts Sunday night, will sim every day (giving 1 rest day between games), so the finale will end this week.


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 between $68 to $70 M, we should have a specific amount on this by July 1st.

- 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.



JUNE 16th to JUNE 30th

Re rates, new contracts will be applied, 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.

Will hopefully find out soon what's going out with the Coyotes and the Senators, I hate kicking out GMs who have been with us since the beginning but I can't justify to keep them when they're not showing or getting their emails from the account they have with us.  Hawks' GM is officially kicked out.  If you know any good candidate WITH STHS EXPERIENCE you can ask them to contact me and we'll talk.  Here again, we don't accept people sharing the same IP address for obvious reasons, this is monitored all year long... sorry.

Starting June 1st, We expect you guys to answer all your messages within 48 hours again.  New portal doesn't always show when you have a new message.  Usually, when you receive a message from a GM, his team/name should be a the top of the list in your messages, that doesn't work for all the teams.  For some teams they'll stay at the bottom of the list not even showing the first words of the message right next to it (like you can usually see)  We'll try to fix this but for now, once in a while, go through all the teams to verify if you have messages.

Let's get back at it guys!

Steeve