Off-season Thread

[Jiri Hrdina]

Folks the off-season upon us.
The purpose of this thread is to provide a general overview on how the off-season will play out. As most of you know, we tackle things in a sequential order, but at this point of the off-season it is difficult to provide firm dates for all items.

A couple of immediate actions/reminders
- If you are unsure if you wish to remain GM of your team please let us know sooner rather than later. It is only fair to the new GM that they have the off-season to prepare their team
- If you have any questions about rules, please ask
- Remember you do NOT need cap space to sign RFAs but you DO need cap space to sign your UFAs. And all UFAs re-signed are 3 years and 1 way. You cannot trade UFA rights. You must re-sign them or not sign them.
- If you release a player please post in the free agency thread
- If you trade or acquire a draft pick please post in the draft pick thread
- Trading before re-rates is done at your own risk - ratings will change primarily based on the last season's performance.


Immediate things you should be doing:
- Prepare for the draft!
- If you owe conditional picks in the 2018 draft – take care of them sooner rather than later
- Update your trade block
- Trade, trade, trade!
- If you someone on IR right now please send an email to take them off. You can send either individual requests via your main GM page or send in a batch request. Whatever is easier.

Generally the order will go like this
- Rollover (1 year advancement on ages and contracts)
- Our draft: Saturday June 15 10 am Calgary time (1 week before NHL draft)
- Re-rates and new RFA/UFA grids
- Deadline to bring players above waiver threshold to the CPHL
- RFA re-signing
- UFA re-signing
- UFA batches

Also please remember we don't process stuff as often in the off-season. It is a bit of a welcome break for us as well. The sim will be updated after free agency.

Couple other things
- Trading can now resume
- You may not sign any free agents that are in the system already. The only ones you can re-sign are ones that aren't in the DB at all that you request to be added
- The watchdog is off its leash. You do not need to be roster or cap compliant in the off-season. Per above, you do need cap space to re-sign or sign a UFA
- Buyouts cannot happen until after the rollover so please hold off submitting them. Any release/buyouts will hit your 2018/2019 cap.

If anything is unclear PLEASE ask questions.

[savardandjokinen]

Can we trade 2021 picks yet?

[Jiri Hrdina]

Everyone can except Scorp.
Actually that's not true. No one can until the rollover
At that point everyone can.
Except Scorp.

[TheScorpion]

wow actually

[JonDuke]

Pending UFAs cannot be traded at all, right?

[Jiri Hrdina]

Correct

[TheScorpion]

When will the rollover be?

[Jiri Hrdina]

Can just did the rollover (thx!). I need to add 5m to each tile plus cap for season over season improvement so what you see now isn’t correct

[Jiri Hrdina]

Can just did the rollover (thx!). I need to add 5m to each tile plus cap for season over season improvement so what you see now isn’t correct

[savardandjokinen]

Always forget when we can do this

When can we sign ECHLers?

[Jiri Hrdina]

During rfa signing

[Jiri Hrdina]

5M has been added to each team to get everyone to the 75M base
And I've also added the bonus amounts for YoY improvements

[Jiri Hrdina]

Our draft is a week away
If you can’t make it please find someone to pick for you and let me know who is subbing in for you

[savardandjokinen]

Releasing ECHLers is free right?

[Jiri Hrdina]

Yup

[Jiri Hrdina]

Next step is rerates
Will be evaluating options this weekend

[Jiri Hrdina]

Next step is rerates
Will be evaluating options this weekend

[Inufie]

When releasing ECHLers, where do we post it?, or do we need to post it anywhere?

[Jiri Hrdina]

Just use the release function from your roster page