The Agenda - get ready!

Please read this email carefully and save it for later. I know it's a long one, but it has everything we have on our plate this summer... and it starts now.

There's still several GMs who haven't claimed their players/prospects from the UNASSIGNED list on the portal, if you don't they will become available for all other GMs to bid on on July 1st, so act now!  Also go through all of your players rated 24-25-26 and verifiy if they have played 10 or more games in the AHL/NHL last year, if that's the case, report them as well by answering this email.  You need enough players for both team NHL/AHL and players rated 24-25-26 can only be used when you have injured players.


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- Trades re open July 1st (Tuesday evening midnight ET). Until the draft at the end of the month, you can trade all picks in the next 2 years, after the draft we fall back to the other rule.

- UFA/RFA market and contract extensions open July 1st (Tuesday evening midnight ET)

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


When you go check UFA and RFA, its possible certain players 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 until Wednesday evening midnight before placing bids on the players you want, it might be too late already, every year, all good UFAs/RFAs get offer at midnight when it opens.

Remember, all contracts of 2$ mil + per season, players can't be sent to the minors, NHL only (Next year it goes down to $1,5 M).

Maximum amount of players:  25 in Pro, 30 in AHL


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.

 

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 1: Team owning RFA players (who are testing the market on July 1st) can NOT trade them unless they match the offers these players will receive. You can NOT make offers to your own RFAs until July 16th.  After July 20th, all RFAs who haven't received an offer will become UFA.

NOTE 2: Several RFAs are under the UFA section
Andrew miller - Wild
Andy Miele - Penguins
Brett Bellemore - Mtl
Claude Giroux - Bruins
Dale Weise - Coyotes
Denny Urban - Jets
Evan Oberg - Buffalo
Jack Combs - TB
James Sheppard - Leafs
jamie McBain - Flames
Matt Bartkowski - Anaheim
Matthew Corrente - Leafs
Michael Frolik - Wild
Patrick Maroon - Columbus
Paul Carey - NJ
Ryan White - Van
Spencer Abbott - Mtl
TJ Galiardi - Florida
Vladimir Zharkov - Wild
Will O'Neill - Van
Zach Hamill - Wash
Zach Redmond - Kings
Atte Engren - Edmonton
Joni Ortio - Wild


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 2016.  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%).

- 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).

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Financial system is NOT on this season.  Finances are way better now.

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Get ready for the draft and pre-season, remember you need enough players; goaltenders, RW, LW, C and D to form 2 teams... so make sure you have enough players for each positions. You can't build a team with players rated "24-25-26, etc", they can be used as spares when you have too many injuries but it should be exceptional. Strongly strongly suggest you have at least 5 goaltenders. If you only have 4, and simming is blocked because one of them is injured and you only have 3, you'll be fined as explained in the rules.



Salary cap is expect to be something around $71.4M in 2015-16, during the off season, you can go up to $80 M . You will also need to be over the salary floor by the beginning of the season which should be around $53M.

Remember buy outs and bonus signatures count toward your salary cap. In the next few days, I'll add/update these numbers on your team finance page.


Draft
Monday August 3rd - 7 PM ET - Rounds 1 and 2
Tuesday August 4th - 7 PM ET - Rounds 3-4-5.

DRAFT IS MANDATORY, you have to be present, or send a list to the league or prepare your list on the draft page.

GMs who have draft picks and who won’t be present to the draft and won’t take dispositions for
the draft (create list, ask somebody else to take care of it for them) will be fined.
First evening (rounds 1 and 2) - $4 M
Second evening (rounds 3-4-5) - $3 M
Of course, a GM who doesn’t have any pick left doesn’t have to show up at the draft.


Members of the trade committee: Paul (Buf), Steeve (Det), Matt (Ducks), Mike (Tor) and Pascal (NYR)

9 teams are currently under the trade committee supervision; Arizona, Pittsburgh, Calgary, Edmonton, Kings, Ottawa, Nashville, Winnipeg and Philadelphia. The trade committee is there to protect GMs and their team so they don't destroy their future and /or giving valued assets for doubtful prospects/picks/career Ahlers..etc 

all signatures, buyouts, declined trades, players on waivers, position changes, etc on www.simm.fra.co. You will also found some good post with helpful tips.

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We now expect you guys to be back full time,  now we are back in business, reply to ALL MESSAGES within 48 hours! Non active GMs will be replaced, it started already, no more warnings.

You don't have to put your everyday email address in the sim client, but make sure I do have it in case we need to reach you. If we just can't contact you, even during summer time, we might just lose your team (it happened again this year).


- concerning coaches, you 'll receive another email shortly


Would be a good idea to over the league's rules again...

Too much stuff to remember for this email, I probably forgot something, so you can expect more emails ;-)

Email me now with any questions you may have,

Steeve