In season RFA signing

Sabres_Luke · Guru

In season RFA signing

HOTLANTA · Guru

i think we should have a delayed period like we had last season as it allows nhl teams a chance to give their guys new deals so then we can lock up our guys to deals if they are coming off elc deals.

Sabres_Luke · Guru

HOTLANTA wrote:

i think we should have a delayed period like we had last season as it allows nhl teams a chance to give their guys new deals so then we can lock up our guys to deals if they are coming off elc deals.

The ELC argument doesn't really make sense because you have to wait on those players anyways. I'm not talking about all players being signed; just strictly the 3 (or whatever number) it is that are allowed to be signed in season.

Last year I had to wait for Carter and Weber to sign but that doesn't effect the 3 I was able to sign early.

ELC's are a whole different cup of tea and have no relation to the matter as you can't sign them based of their 850k contract and their contract is inevitable.

Hawks_G · Guru

Before they do this, they should consider the rewrite of the rules to make sure the ELCs take into account the SB that some rookies get. Teams shouldn't be able to hide these cap hits by having $850K rookie contracts.

www.nhlnumbers.com Kane and Toews do not get $850K for a cap hit.

HOTLANTA · Guru

what im meaning luke is if we delay our signing period some guys coming off elc contracts nhl will have new ones thus letting us sign them brhl to be one of our 3 presigning.

BryceBruins · BRHL2 Co-Commish

The ELC's are being reviewed. Presignings will open up right around the NHL allstar break, much like last year.

Sabres_Luke · Guru

Is this opening up in the next week? Just wondering if there's a date set.

BluesGM · Guru

pretty sure bryce wasn't expecting that a baby would be that much work, something tells me its going to be delayed a bit...

BryceBruins · BRHL2 Co-Commish

I think we're shooting for a week before the end of February, just like last season. So I'll set a date of Feb 20, 2009 to open RFA presignings.

Hawks_G · Guru

Are we going to look at how the BRHL teams are beating the system by signing young guys to cheap ELCs when in the NHL their bonuses count against the cap?

Sabres_Luke · Guru

Yeesh, Feb 20? That's not really all that close to the All Star Break. What does it hurt to open them up now even if you don't end up looking at them til whenever you have time?

BryceBruins · BRHL2 Co-Commish

Trying to keep it consistent, last year it was the 22nd of February I believe when we opened it. Ill start it Friday the 20th.

HOTLANTA · Guru

i think we need to look at the rfa issue with us switching to sths..

-- Edited by HOTLANTA at 01:37, 2009-01-22

HOTLANTA · Guru

One thing I think needs to be looked at before ANY presignings happen is how this is going to work as our salary calculator has a OV FHL factor in it.. with us switching to STHS i think we need to redo this and have new contracts be based somehow on the new system..

I think having contracts that will be used for sths. based off an FHL OV (which many say is useless) is pointless. i think the new contracts should be signed off how guys will be rated in the STHS BRHL2..

before people jump to say it doesnt affect me i have a beauty longterm deal for kesler based off FHL OV resigning style RFA.. but i do feel we need to look at doing all resignings after we have made the switch to STHS because after we make the switch our league shouldnt have anything new (like contracts) based off FHL.. Just my opinion..

BryceBruins · BRHL2 Co-Commish

More than likely (and I haven't had a chance to delve into it too much). The OV portion of the calculator will disappear, and it will be almost 100% based off their NHL salary.

I do have a few other ideas I'm going to work on the next few weeks to see if it works, but thats the way it's looking right now.