FREE AGENCY/TRADING/SIGNATURES

Hi all,

Some teams still haven't claimed some of their prospects in the UFA/Unassigned, if you don't do it, they will become available on July 1st for all GMs to bid on, so act now!!!

- 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.

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Free agency starts July 1st, so Thursday evening at midnight ET.  You can start bidding on UFAs and RFAs, 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 $73 M, floor's at $54M, you must comply to this by the first day of the regular season. 

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

All players that will receive bid(s) between Thursday night midnight and Friday night 11pm,  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 Friday 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 Thursday night midnight. After bid 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.

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 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.

Matt did correct the amount your own pending UFAs/RFAs players are asking to sign back with you guys, what you see is what you get now, % might change, but basic salary asked is the right one.  Years after years, salary cap is rising, so is the players demands.

System is done in a way so you can usually sign your RFAs back and for the UFAs to hit free agency, unless you get lucky, you ll have to pay big bucks to keep them of they'll leave. Once a UFA rejects all 3 offers, he'll hit free agency no matter what happens next.  He can be traded, but won't sign with his new team (even if portal would let you do so, it would be canceled). so you might consider trading a UFA who rejected your offers twice while he still has a big value on the market.

bonus signatures count toward salary cap, you can only ask a player to waive a no trade clause after the first half of the season. Players will ask for more $ if you wait after the regular season to offer them a contract.

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Trades also open back Thursday evening midnight ET.

buy out will be back at a 100% rate starting July 1st, act now if you need to do more buyouts.  Same with Rate review, you have until July 1st to submit your player(s).

Guys if you have questions ask now! dont wait, you can also ask your questions directly on the portal

position change, you can send requests at any time of the season.

Steeve Cyr

Starting tonight midnight ET!!!

FREE AGENCY/TRADING/SIGNATURES
All on Thursday night

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