Post by NHL DL Commissioner on Jul 23, 2019 23:44:37 GMT -5
11. Free Agency
a. Free Agency contract offer rules are as follows:
i. The minimum bid is $650,000 per year.
ii. For skaters 35 and older, you can offer a max contract of 3 years.
iii.For skaters 34 and under, you may offer up to 6 years.
iv. For goalies 35 and older, you can offer a max contract of 3 years.
v. For goalies 34 and under, you may offer up to 8 years.
b. Salary amounts will remain constant for all seasons of an offer.
c. Signed players will be placed on an NHLDL team's active roster if they are on an NHL team's active roster. You cannot win players in free agency and then bury them in the minors without them being subject to waivers.
d. Winning bids will be determined by the highest product of yearly salary multiplied by number of years.
e. If there are multiple bids on a player, any multi-year bid must have a minimum salary within 70% of the highest yearly salary offered on a player. This is to stop GMs from signing a player on an 8 year contract at a low salary, and having that product be higher than a shorter term higher salary offer.
f. A free agency bid standing as the highest bid for a 24 hour bid will be declared the winning bid.
g. A free agent that is signed and eligible to be placed and is placed in a team's minor roster shall have no cap hit to that team's NHL roster.
Free Agency Examples
A. Team A bids 3 years x $5,000,000 on Jake Gardiner. The product of that bid is $15,000,000. If that is the highest yearly salary offered to Jake Gardiner, any other bid must have a minimum salary of $3,500,000. A bid of 5 years x $3,5000,000 would have a product of $17,500,000 and would be the new highest bid.
a. Free Agency contract offer rules are as follows:
i. The minimum bid is $650,000 per year.
ii. For skaters 35 and older, you can offer a max contract of 3 years.
iii.For skaters 34 and under, you may offer up to 6 years.
iv. For goalies 35 and older, you can offer a max contract of 3 years.
v. For goalies 34 and under, you may offer up to 8 years.
b. Salary amounts will remain constant for all seasons of an offer.
c. Signed players will be placed on an NHLDL team's active roster if they are on an NHL team's active roster. You cannot win players in free agency and then bury them in the minors without them being subject to waivers.
d. Winning bids will be determined by the highest product of yearly salary multiplied by number of years.
e. If there are multiple bids on a player, any multi-year bid must have a minimum salary within 70% of the highest yearly salary offered on a player. This is to stop GMs from signing a player on an 8 year contract at a low salary, and having that product be higher than a shorter term higher salary offer.
f. A free agency bid standing as the highest bid for a 24 hour bid will be declared the winning bid.
g. A free agent that is signed and eligible to be placed and is placed in a team's minor roster shall have no cap hit to that team's NHL roster.
Free Agency Examples
A. Team A bids 3 years x $5,000,000 on Jake Gardiner. The product of that bid is $15,000,000. If that is the highest yearly salary offered to Jake Gardiner, any other bid must have a minimum salary of $3,500,000. A bid of 5 years x $3,5000,000 would have a product of $17,500,000 and would be the new highest bid.
