Contract Extensions, trades, buyouts, draft order

2017-06-07

Hi all!

First, please welcome our new Montreal Canadien GM, Mike Cooley!

Trades, Contract extension offers, buyouts starts this Friday midnight ET.

Please read the league rules for all the details about the buyouts, but remember, June is the only month of the year where you can buyout players for less than 100% of their contract`s value. All buyouts goes on this year salary cap (2017-18).

You can send players position changes at anytime by emailing me or using the form on the portal, send link with your request (see rules for this as well).

Teams under the supervision of the trade committee (trades need to be approved): Carolina, Montreal, Vegas, Ottawa, Vancouver.

Hundreds of players will be UFA/RFA at the end of this year (2017-18) so they are playing the last year of their contract this year, pay attention to this when trading as UFAs will be way harder to sign from now on.

CONTRACT EXTENSIONS

After reviewing pretty much all the salaries while creating Simnet2, it obvious salaries in our league are not following the same inflation as the NHL does... and we are not getting a lot of quality players on free agency. In order to fix this we have changed the way players agents are dealing contract extension offers, players will cost more and will test free agency market. That will fix the 2 problems mentioned above and prevent from having teams loaded with superstars... so 3 birds with one stone!

Here`s how it works;

Reasonable offers to a free agent would give you about 60 to 70% chances of signing him, you can't really low ball a player anymore, if you offer less than 100% of his demands, you'll see this % drop dramatically. If a player rejects an offer, you % drop by 10%.

For example;

Malkin is UFA, offering him a contract of $7.3 M per season for 3 year gives a resigning odds % of 70. If he rejects it when you'll make your second offer, for the exact same offer you would get a resigning odds % of only 60. If he rejects again, it drops another 10%.

So for players you really really want to keep, make a STRONG FIRST offer.

You can also use Signing bonus (goes toward salary cap) and no trade clause options to raise your %, but by experience, let me tell you to go easy with the no trade clauses, having too many players with NTC can tie your hands for years.

You have 3 chances of signing a free agent, if you use all the 3 attempts and fail, that player will automatically become a free agent at the end of the year, he can be traded to another team but that team wont be able to sign him, he would be used for a cup run only. If you trade him before you used all 3 attempts, the team acquiring him will have 2 chances of signing him.

Contact me or Paul with any questions you may have!

RFA - same process but resigning odds % are higher

DRAFT ORDER

Draft order on the portal is not accurate, will be adjusted before the drat.... here`s the order so you know what your picks worth.

ROUND 1

1- Toronto (own by Colorado),

2- Colorado,

3- Winnipeg,

4- Dallas (own by Detroit),

5- Arizona,

6- Vegas,

7- Vancouver,

8- Pittsburgh,

9- Kings,

10- Carolina (own by Kings),

11- Philly (own by Buffalo),

12 Ottawa,

13- Tampa (own by Detroit),

14- Florida (own by Colorado),

15- Montreal,

16 - Minnesota

17 -Edmonton

18- Calgary

19- Nashville

20- Columbus

21- Anaheim

22- Chicago

23- NY Rangers

24- Boston

25- New Jersey

26- Detroit

27- NY Islanders

28- Buffalo

29- St.Louis

30 - San Jose

31 - Washington

ROUNDS 2 to 5

1- Dallas

2- Arizona

3- Vegas

4- Vancouver

5- Toronto

6- Pittsburgh

7- Los Angeles

8- Winnipeg

9- Carolina

10- Philadelphia

11- Ottawa,

12 - Tampa Bay,

13 - Colorado

14- Florida