Post by Kings on Apr 24, 2019 4:26:23 GMT -5
Hi all,
First of all, welcome to Andy, our newest member, who will be taking over the Thunderbirds team and renaming it the Colorado Avalanche.
Here are a few offseason notes:
Dates:
1.Trading will open Wednesday, May 1, at 12am EST time (Tuesday night - Wednesday morning). Free agency is closed until the free agency draft.
2.The free agency draft will be a week or so after NHL free agency opens up on July 1. Last year we ran a slow draft on Fantrax. It was kind of complicated and we had lots of technical difficulties. If there is still interest in running a slow draft as we do for our entry draft, it might be easier to do it on Proboards. Otherwise, we could do it as we used to, which is everyone sends a list to me before the deadline and I manually do the draft.
3.The entry draft will begin a few days after the last of the NHL's arbitration hearings, so we all have an idea of what our cap situations will look like before the draft. Sometime in August.
4.2018 prospects who are still on your prospect team will need to be called up before the entry draft.
Players who have expiring contracts (RFA or UFA) can be outright dropped.
You have to stay under the 60 player limit / 20 prospect limit at all times in the offseason. You can go over the cap as much as you want until 2 days before the regular season when final rosters will be due.
The salary cap will be 1.4 times the NHL's salary cap. We will officially announce the cap after the NHL announces its cap.
We have to decide if we are staying with Fantrax Premium or going back to regular Fantrax.
PLEASE STAY ACTIVE IN THE OFFSEASON!!!!! If someone sends you a PM, please respond quickly. And as I explained in the "Username" thread, you can set your settings on Proboards so that whenever you receive a PM, you automatically receive an email as well. I find this to be very helpful.
First of all, welcome to Andy, our newest member, who will be taking over the Thunderbirds team and renaming it the Colorado Avalanche.
Here are a few offseason notes:
Dates:
1.Trading will open Wednesday, May 1, at 12am EST time (Tuesday night - Wednesday morning). Free agency is closed until the free agency draft.
2.The free agency draft will be a week or so after NHL free agency opens up on July 1. Last year we ran a slow draft on Fantrax. It was kind of complicated and we had lots of technical difficulties. If there is still interest in running a slow draft as we do for our entry draft, it might be easier to do it on Proboards. Otherwise, we could do it as we used to, which is everyone sends a list to me before the deadline and I manually do the draft.
3.The entry draft will begin a few days after the last of the NHL's arbitration hearings, so we all have an idea of what our cap situations will look like before the draft. Sometime in August.
4.2018 prospects who are still on your prospect team will need to be called up before the entry draft.
Players who have expiring contracts (RFA or UFA) can be outright dropped.
You have to stay under the 60 player limit / 20 prospect limit at all times in the offseason. You can go over the cap as much as you want until 2 days before the regular season when final rosters will be due.
The salary cap will be 1.4 times the NHL's salary cap. We will officially announce the cap after the NHL announces its cap.
We have to decide if we are staying with Fantrax Premium or going back to regular Fantrax.
PLEASE STAY ACTIVE IN THE OFFSEASON!!!!! If someone sends you a PM, please respond quickly. And as I explained in the "Username" thread, you can set your settings on Proboards so that whenever you receive a PM, you automatically receive an email as well. I find this to be very helpful.