Draft Reviews, Free Agency, Etc.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:56 pm

The draft is done! Yay! Let's all rejoice.

So, here's a rough schedule of the next week.

I'm not doing anything tonight. Have some other business to attend to.

Contracts that need to be submitted before the rollover must be posted by Tuesday night at 9 p.m. EST. I'm going to advance the file through the rollover and up to 8/29.

That means that on Wednesday at 12 p.m. EST, free agency will begin. Please familiarize yourself with the process. Download the latest file on Wednesday so you can see who all is availiable.

I will be entering final arbitrations/contracts tomorrow and upload the file tomorrow night with the draft entered. So, make sure that if you want to keep somebody, you extend a contract to them. They'll be FAs on Wednesday and you cannot re-sign a guy that you let walk to FA.

For the remainder of the offseason, I'll be doing what I can to get an IRC channel together for us so that we can have some CBA negotiations. There will also be a thread that we'll keep posting in.

I'll do the 2012-13 schedule somewhere along the line.

Have your draft reviews submitted by Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. EST if you want to be eligible for draft review rewards, just like the past couple of seasons. You must mention ALL of your picks, any trades/transactions you completed during the draft, and whatever else.

Any questions, ask here:

In summation:
Contracts to draftees/expiring players must be in by Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST.
Free agency starts Wednesday at 12 p.m. EST.
Draft reviews due by Friday at 3 p.m. EST.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:41 pm

File updated with all seven rounds of the draft inputted:

http://www.ehechockey.com/EHEC.zip

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:50 pm

Whoa, I have a lot of prospects.

Actually more like a decent number of prospects and a whole bunch of sarcastic air quote prospects.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 4:35 pm

Parker wrote:Whoa, I have a lot of prospects.

Actually more like a decent number of prospects and a whole bunch of sarcastic air quote prospects.

Not as many as the Rangers!

Everything look alright with the draft input? Didn't fuck anything up, did I?

CapsGM · Post by **CapsGM** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:11 pm

Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:
Parker wrote:Whoa, I have a lot of prospects.

Actually more like a decent number of prospects and a whole bunch of sarcastic air quote prospects.
Not as many as the Rangers!

Everything look alright with the draft input? Didn't fuck anything up, did I?

i drafted a guy named yakupov and he's not on my prospects list

Post by **SharksGM** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:45 pm

I don't think Mikhail Yakubov's draft eligible anymore dude.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:16 pm

Per this post, NYI gets to make one more selection from the 2012 draft class. I'll be sure to post who he wants to take or he can post it.

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:00 pm

How do we familiarize with the upcoming UFAs?
Do we have to advance the file like 4 days? If so, then we have to handle the team options?

Help a brother out!

DallasSean · Post by **DallasSean** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:04 pm

Download the latest file on Wednesday so you can see who all is availiable.

Think the file's going to be advanced for us.

Calgary.Flames · Post by **Calgary.Flames** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:08 pm

I should've paid more attention, thanks Sean.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:12 pm

Really going to try and get this file advanced through the summer tonight. Time not really on my side, but we'll see what happens.

Any unsigned staff will go FA. I'll do those last if you haven't done that yet.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:53 pm

I realize that I'm going to have issues with those franchise tag contracts. If they don't sign, in the interest of time, I'm going to manually input them after the rollover.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:07 pm

The moment of truth....the rollover!

Players who boosted:
Heikki Liedes (CBJ)
Joel Armia (CBJ)
Quentin Shore (DAL)
Stefan Noesen (DAL)
Marcel Noebels (FLA)
Lukas Sedlak (NYI)
Adam Johnson (NYR)
Joseph Cramarossa (PHI)
Matthew Nieto (PHI)
Joseph Labate (PHX)
Matt Killian (SJ)
Colten St. Clair (SJ)
Dalton Smith (TB)
Sam Grist (TOR)
Nicklas Jensen (VAN)
Edward Wittchow (WSH) (2x)

Players who busted:
Sergei Smurov (DAL)

All players who boosted will have at least 250k added to their salaries. More if they double or triple boosted.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:12 pm

Can't decide if I'm surprised or not that only two of the 2012 class boosted. One of the 2010 class (Smith). Rest were all 2011.

All booster surcharges for boosting have been added.

CapsGM · Post by **CapsGM** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:41 pm

Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:The moment of truth....the rollover!

Players who boosted:
Heikki Liedes (CBJ)
Joel Armia (CBJ)
Quentin Shore (DAL)
Stefan Noesen (DAL)
Marcel Noebels (FLA)
Lukas Sedlak (NYI)
Adam Johnson (NYR)
Joseph Cramarossa (PHI)
Matthew Nieto (PHI)
Matt Killian (SJ)
Colten St. Clair (SJ)
Dalton Smith (TB)
Sam Grist (TOR)
Nicklas Jensen (VAN)
Edward Wittchow (WSH) (2x)

Players who busted:
Sergei Smurov (DAL)

All players who boosted will have at least 250k added to their salaries. More if they double or triple boosted.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:45 pm

Had some issues where guys didn't sign contracts and the game didn't tell me that they had rejected their offers. Going back through and fixing that. I'm going to upload the file after that so I can call it a night. I have a list of players to take off of retirement. I'll do that tomorrow morning.

Jets GM · Post by **Jets GM** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:46 pm

While my recent conduct doesn't warrant Smith boosting, getting a 99 HIT with 80+ CON is AMAZING

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:15 am

There you go, boys. EHEC file has been cut by about 60% in size.

http://www.ehechockey.com/EHEC.zip

FA starts tomorrow at noon EST. No bidding on Olivier Roy. Have to handle that situation with EDM in private.

Post by **SharksGM** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:49 am

Ffffffff all of my 2012 boosters signed on time but didn't boost and neither did Yuen

Oh well, let's see how training camp w-

Players reporting out of shape:
- Oscar Klefbom D
- Pavel Kubina D
- Niklas Kronwall D
- Mike Komisarek D
- Jack Skille R
- Kyle Wellwood C
- Matt Killian D
- Dany Heatley L
- Colin Stuart L
- Lasse Kukkonen D
- Tomas Filippi C
- Jeff Tambellini L

Players reporting in good shape:
- Jaden Schwartz L
- Matt MacKenzie D
- Taylor Doherty D
- Colten St. Clair C
- Andrei Vasilevski G
- Alexei Ponikarovsky R
- Jiri Novotny C
- Geordie Wudrick L
- Frans Nielsen C
- Ryan Getzlaf C
- Johan Ryno R
- Derek Forbort D

4 of my top 6 D and Heatley are out of shape and the only E5 bonus eligible defenseman I have gets the boost, plus a bunch of shitty farmers and free agents.

I always suspected Heatley's a lazy ass when he's not scoring goals or crashing cars.

Post by **SharksGM** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:54 am

On another note, before people like me start signing every 69 OV player to rule the AHL, is the AHL salary cap going to be enforced next season or some kind of 25 player AHL roster limit?

CapsGM · Post by **CapsGM** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:02 am

stanley cup hangover, it should be expected

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:28 am

Joseph Labate boosted! Insert "FUCK YEAH!!!" emoticon here.

Brennan Serville didn't double boost. He didn't even single boost. What the fuck, Adam.

Vanin didn't boost either, but it looks like he didn't sign the contract until after the rollover anyway. Oh well.

Jungle Cats · Post by **Jungle Cats** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:30 am

2 million dollar gambit fail.

Post by **SharksGM** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:35 am

Speaking of gambit fail, Dalton Smith. Femur's gonna roll in his grave. What, he's still around?

Femur · Post by **Femur** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:12 am

SharksGM wrote:Speaking of gambit fail, Dalton Smith. Femur's gonna roll in his grave. What, he's still around?

is this supposed to upset me? not gonna happen. i knew as surely as i know anything that he would not have boosted had i kept him. and i knew he would boost for Justin Tillycomes the second i accepted the deal.

maybe it is the massive amount of sedation i am under, but i could care less right now.

DallasSean · Post by **DallasSean** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:31 am

Players who busted:
Sergei Smurov (DAL)

Hrm.

Commish Bub(NYR) · Post by **Commish Bub(NYR)** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:32 am

I love off-season.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:57 am

Parker wrote:Joseph Labate boosted! Insert "FUCK YEAH!!!" emoticon here.

Brennan Serville didn't double boost. He didn't even single boost. What the fuck, Adam.

Vanin didn't boost either, but it looks like he didn't sign the contract until after the rollover anyway. Oh well.

Must have passed over Labate, my bad. I remember looking at your team news page.

I was surprised at what seemed like a relatively low number of boosters. A lot of guys who I offered contracts to on the 18th didn't even sign until after the rollover. I'd expect a high number of boosts in next year's rollover.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:58 am

SharksGM wrote:On another note, before people like me start signing every 69 OV player to rule the AHL, is the AHL salary cap going to be enforced next season or some kind of 25 player AHL roster limit?

AHL rosters are going to be made up of nothing but draftees by this point.

We have a 26-man roster limit in the AHL that I did check a few times last season.

As far as the salary cap, underagers don't count toward it (as of now), so it's largely irrelevant. Could very well change during CBA talks.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:15 am

A quick addendum to free agency: I know we have some players who will never get 75% of their previous contract...

For players who were unsigned free agents during the 2011-12 season, their minimum bid is 50% of their previous contract.

So, basically, guys like Afinogenov, Poti, Pothier, etc.

Probably won't change a whole hell of a lot, but we'll see.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:24 am

Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:
Parker wrote:Joseph Labate boosted! Insert "FUCK YEAH!!!" emoticon here.

Brennan Serville didn't double boost. He didn't even single boost. What the fuck, Adam.

Vanin didn't boost either, but it looks like he didn't sign the contract until after the rollover anyway. Oh well.
Must have passed over Labate, my bad. I remember looking at your team news page.

I was surprised at what seemed like a relatively low number of boosters. A lot of guys who I offered contracts to on the 18th didn't even sign until after the rollover. I'd expect a high number of boosts in next year's rollover.

Labate didn't show up in the Team News tab.

Which means I now have to look over every booster to see if they boosted. Fuck me.

Commish Bub(NYR) · Post by **Commish Bub(NYR)** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:27 am

Well none of my others did, just Adam "Not Burke" Johnson.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:42 am

So far, Labate's the only one I've seen that boosted without the game telling me. Went back through the 2011 class. Naturally, I can't find my notes on the 2010 class, so I have no idea who the boosters are, not that it matters because they were pre-financial policy so there's no booster upgrade charge.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:58 am

All players who were set to retire are not.

http://www.ehechockey.com/EHEC.zip

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:13 am

For the time being, until we start preseason games, please PM all instructions to me. I probably won't remember to check the league email with any regularity.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:59 am

Free agency has now begun.

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:42 pm

How in the hell is Chris Higgins 76 OA?

Anyone else have an entry for most overrated player?

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:47 pm

Topics per page set to 50 to make FA forum easier to navigate.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:52 pm

I know I'll get asked this question, but with the blind bidding system, you sometimes have to guess if you have the highest bid or not. If you get a PM that says "Bid(s) received" and the previous high bid hasn't been exceeded, you can assume that your bid is not the highest. Be aware that bids sometimes come in around the same time, so you may or may not have the high bid.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:00 pm

Chris Vande Velde, like Olivier Roy, is not eligible for bidding at this time.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:52 pm

My bad. I didn't notice Edmonton's post until now.

VANDE VELDE IS OPEN FOR BIDDING. PLEASE RE-SUBMIT YOUR BIDS.

Parker · Post by **Parker** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:40 pm

Whoa, someone's got a hard-on for low-ceiling inconsistent talent all of a sudden...

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:23 am

I will post an updated file later tonight.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:10 pm

Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:I will post an updated file later tonight.

Caught up working on something tonight. Sorry guys. Will get updated file posted tomorrow.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:13 pm

Updated file posted. http://www.ehechockey.com/EHEC.zip

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:35 am

Will update the file later today with everything that's been added.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:55 am

Going to try and catch up on some things today. Most notably, the file update I said I was going to do on Friday. Got caught up in things, and then the weekend, and then last night my fiancee and I got pissed on at a concert by some drunken douchebag who is lucky I didn't cave his face in before the police showed up.

Also need to sort through draft previews and rewards.

CapsGM · Post by **CapsGM** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:46 am

Commissioner (CBJ) wrote:I got pissed on at a concert by some drunken douchebag who is lucky I didn't cave his face in before the police showed up.

Virtual Jarmo · Post by **Virtual Jarmo** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:01 am

CapsGM wrote:

My fiancee kept referring to him as R. Kelly when she was talking to the police.

DallasSean · Post by **DallasSean** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:07 am

Like, literally pissed on? With urine? The fuck.