After rereading the rules, you do have a valid point, however i think they has been a change in that rule....
Bryce wrote: we've done it each year that you can tag before or after the season. For this year, if you wanna roll the dice and wait for rerates. I will plug them into the FHL calculator to see what the OV would have been. Going forward it will be based on their contract amount as far as their tagging class.
Instead of tagging based on this year's ratings, bryce is allowing us to tag players after rerates... so I apologize, you were right, according to the rules we shouldn't have been allowed to use the tags, "Lemieux tag players are 77ov or higher during the season BEFORE they become unrestricted."
That being said, I think all of us were going from bryce's answers from this thread.... http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=85830&p=3&topicID=24999577
correct, and as I stated that's been how its been done since year 1. Though Eric and I have dropped the ball on editting the rules to show that. I plugged blake in the FHL calculator, and he comes out as a Lemieux candidate.