Eastside's Hockey Elite Collide

Steve Downie (AHL) - 1.1M per season - 3 Yr Contract - Two Way - Default SB
David Hale (AHL) - 950k per season - 2 Yr Contract - Two Way - Default SB
Mike Lundin (AHL) - 750k per season - 3 Yr Contract - Two Way - Default SB
Kurtis Foster (AHL) - 900k per season - 3 Yr Contract - Two Way - Default SB
Zenon Konopka (AHL) - 700k per season - 2 Yr Contract - Two Way - Default SB

Steve Downie's rights will remain with you as the qualifying offer has been made. Downie will consider your offer.

David Hale's rights will remain with you as the qualifying offer has been made. Hale will consider your offer.

Mike Lundin's rights will remain with you as the qualifying offer has been made. Lundin will consider your offer.

Kurtis Foster's rights will remain with you as the qualifying offer has been made. Foster will consider your offer.

Zenon Konopka's rights will remain with you as the qualifying offer has been made. Konopka will consider your offer.

Kurtis Foster has signed a $900,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

JNR Louis Leblanc - 3 Yrs - 600k per - Default SB - Two-Way - Team Option

If signed, please assign to Norfolk (AHL).

Louis Leblanc will consider your offer.

JNR Alex Hutchings - 300k per season - 3 Years - Two Way - Default SB
AMA Alexander Killorn - 290k per season - 3 Years - Two Way - Default SB
AMA Matt Marshall - 525k per season - 3 Years - Two Way - Default SB

If any of the above are signed, please assign them to the AHL. Hutchings will be my 3rd (if Leblanc signs) junior in the AHL.

Alex Hutchings will consider your offer.

Alexander Killorn will consider your offer.

Matt Marshall will consider your offer.

Zenon Konopka has signed a $700,000 per year, 2 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Louis Leblanc has signed a $600,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Matt Marshall has signed a $525,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Alexander Killorn has signed a $290,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Mike Lundin has signed a $750,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Alex Hutchings has signed a $300,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

David Hale has signed a $950,000 per year, 2 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Steve Downie has signed a $1,100,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

NHL

LW Alex Tanguay - 4 yr deal/3,000,000 per/1,500,000 bonus/Team Option
D Paul Ranger - 5 yr deal/2,000,000 per/1,000,000 bonus/Team Option/Player Option
RW Jeff Halpern - 3 yr deal/2,100,000 per/1,000,000 bonus/Team Option/Player Option
LW Lauri Tukonen - 6 yr deal/700,000 per/350,000 bonus/Team Option/Player Option
RW David Clarkson - 4 yr deal/1,100,000 per/533,000 bonus/Team Option
LW Stéphane Veilleux - 3 yr deal/1,000,000 per/500,000 bonus/Team Option

AHL

RW Blair Jones - 2 yr deal/700,000/default bonus/Team Option/Two Way
RW Brandon Bochenski - 2 yr deal/750,000/default bonus/Team Option/Two Way

Rights are retained on Tanguay, Ranger, Tukonen, Clarkson, Veilleux, Jones, Bochenski. They will consider your offer.
Jeff Halpern will consider your offer.

Blair Jones has signed a $700,000 per year, 2 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Alex Tanguay has signed a $3,000,000 per year, 4 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Lauri Tukonen has signed a $700,000 per year, 6 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Paul Ranger has signed a $2,000,000 per year, 5 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

David Clarkson has signed a $1,100,000 per year, 4 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Stephane Veilleuxhas signed a $1,000,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Jeff Halpern has signed a $2,100,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Brandon Bochenski has signed a $750,000 per year, 2 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Offer Johan Larsson and Jani Hakanpaa default 3 yr entry level contracts.

Johan Larsson will consider your offer.

Jani Hakanpaa will consider your offer.

Jani Hakanpaa has signed a $400,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Johan Larsson has signed a $400,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Kent Simpson - 300k - 3 years - 150k bonus - 2 way - Team Option
Joakim Nordstrom - 300k - 3 years - 150k bonus - 2 way - Team Option

Luca Cunti - 300k - 3 years - 150k bonus - 2 way - Team Option

Minimum offer is 400k for all contracts. They will be entered as such.

Prospects will consider their offers.

Nikita Zaytsev - 3 yrs - 400k per - Default Bonus - Team Option/Two Way

Nikita Zaytsev will consider your offer.

Martin St.Louis - 3 yrs - 5M per - 2.5M bonus

The freeze is still in effect. Sorry for the inconvenience Justin.

Tuo-SabresGM wrote:The freeze is still in effect. Sorry for the inconvenience Justin.

Sry thought it was for players under 32, my mistake.

RFA Offers *all should be minimum salary

Steven Stamkos 4.375m, max length + franchise tag
Dustin Tokarski 1.35m, 4 year deal
Matt Lashoff 1.1m, 4 year deal
Ryan Stoa 2.125m, 4 year deal
Luca Caputi 1.041666m, 4 year deal
Carson McMillan (AHL) 450k, 4 year deal
Ladislav Scurko (AHL) 480k, 4 year deal

28-31 UFA Arbitration Requests

Adam Hall
Andy Hilbert (AHL)
Fedor Fedorov (AHL)

32+ UFA Arbitration Requests

Martin St. Louis
Jan Hejda

Designate Stamkos for franchise player.

An award has been determined in the Martin St. Louis arbitration.

TB comps: Savard, Elias, Sullivan

Arbitrator comps: Briere, Sedin, Heatley; but acknowledging that the three most accurate are Savard, Elias, and Sedin.

The Steve Sullivan comp can be thrown out, IMO, in this case. Sullivan took a sweet hometown discount because of his myriad of health issues and that factors in much more to real life than the EHM sim world.

The other comps are fairly accurate and come in well over TB's proposed 5M per year, as well as over my arbitrator's 5.9M per year. St. Louis has good LE and CON to go along with 80+ SK and the three main offensive attributes. Age is about the only factor in play here. Unfortunately, he retired in the fastsim file, so I am unable to see what sort of decline he experienced as he got older. But, with our retirement policy, St. Louis will play all three years of his contract and do so without any decline from a retiring status.

In this case, I am going to side with my arbitrator and award Martin St. Louis the proposed 3 year contract at 5.75M per season. With LE at a premium in the file, and St. Louis's high CON, our retirement policy, and the fact that 5 of the 6 comps were above both proposed numbers (and looking at what I said earlier about Sullivan), I feel that this is a fair result for an 85 OF 80 CON player who should not decline much, if at all, during the duration of this contract.

I also feel that he is warranted a raise because of the success he has brought the Lightning and the high LE that will continue to benefit him.

Justin, you can accept/reject the 3 year, 5.75M per contract.

Accept

Scurko and MacMillan contracts offered.

No arbitration necessary for AHL guys Hilbert and Fedorov. Just the formula for the <70 guys.

Arbitration's really only for NHL guys or guys who go up and down regularly.

Alright, if you could please offer them 3 year deals wih minimum salary.

bump for Hejda arbitration ruling (no rush, just in case)

Tampa Bay GM wrote:bump for Hejda arbitration ruling (no rush, just in case)

Shit. It's been done for a week or more. My bad.

I'll post it later this afternoon.

An award has been determined in the Jan Hejda arbitration case.

TB comps: Warrener (EHEC UFA), Boynton (EHEC UFA), Ward (EHEC UFA)
Arbitrator comps: Scuderi, White, Commodore

EHEC UFAs are not supposed to be used for arbitration proceedings, but it seems like that tends to be the road that teams are going. At some point, I'll have to soften my stance on that, but for now, because of the lack of rules in place regarding salary prior to this offseason, it's hard to use them for the purpose of arbitration.

Anyway, TB proposed 4 years at 1.6M, the maximum 20% decrease allowable. My arbitrator proposed 4 years at 3M per, citing that Hejda has comparable stats and attributes to his comparable players. He also said that he would be looking at 3.5M per if it were just a one-year deal, but for Hejda with a 4-year deal, 3M per provided financial security and a raise.

One thing about Commodore and Scuderi is that they are bad real life contracts, necessitated by a market that has to overpay to sign guys and the other was based off a strong Stanley Cup run.

In any event, there's no evidence to support that Jan Hejda deserves less money. He has a ridiculous 85 CON and good LE. Just because of Tampa's strength on defense, his contributions should not be diminished. He was in the top 20 in TA and 11th in TA-GA ratio. He also fits perfectly in to Tampa's system.

I am going to side with my arbitrator and propose that Jan Hejda be awarded a 4 year contract at 2.4M per. His play has warranted a raise and his high CON and solid LE make him a very valuable part of any contending team.

Justin, you can accept/reject the Hejda ruling at 4 years at 2.4M per.

Accept.

Just want to make sure the RFA offers in the above posts got seen/entered.

Stamkos: 4,281,250 (400% base/25% tag = 3,281,250, +350k off. spec. +400k SK, FA, +250k CON 80+)
Lashoff: 1,100,000 (100% base, +100k SK, -100k HI)
Stoa: 3,087,500 (250%/300% base midpoint = 212,500, new base = 3,187,500, -100k PE)
Caputi: 1,716,666 (100% base (64 OF 76 DF fastsim), +350k def. spec., -300k SH, PL, PE)
Hilbert: 500,000
Hall: 1,250,000 (100% base, +350k def. spec., -300k SH, PL, ST)

Scurko, Macmillan already signed.

Let me know on Caputi and Stoa as they are higher numbers than what was posted.

Also Hall.

Caputi and Stoa accept, will let you know shortly about Hall.

Ups, forgot max AHL is 1.5m now. I can always bury Hall. Accept on him to.

Contracts offered to Caputi, Stoa, Hall.

Steven Stamkos rejected the $4,500,000 per year, 6 year offer from Tampa Bay Lightning

Luca Caputi has signed a $1,700,000 per year, 4 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Ryan Stoa has signed a $3,000,000 per year, 4 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Stamkos said no to 4.5m/6yrs. Maybe try it with a NTC? Also Tokarski should prob be offered w/e contract he gets so he doesn't get released into UFA before you input the ATL trade. Will you be editing the actual salary #'s after, or are we rounding up/down? i.e Stamkos/Stoa

Tampa Bay GM wrote:Stamkos said no to 4.5m/6yrs. Maybe try it with a NTC? Also Tokarski should prob be offered w/e contract he gets so he doesn't get released into UFA before you input the ATL trade. Will you be editing the actual salary #'s after, or are we rounding up/down? i.e Stamkos/Stoa

Editing the actual.

Stamkos was offered a NTC, was he not? I have no way of checking, but I'm pretty sure that I included the NTC.

Perhaps, like Hodgson, he just didn't want to accept a deal with an NTC. I can add it after the fact, I guess. Though, really, if a guy doesn't want to be franchise tagged with a NTC, I shouldn't allow it.

Stamkos is asking for 5M per year now. You may want to up your offer and just suck it up, if you still want to tag him.

Adam Hall has signed a $1,300,000 per year, 3 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Matt Lashoff has signed a $1,100,000 per year, 4 year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Detailed terms of the deal were not announced.

Andy Hilbert rejected the $525,000 per year, 3 year offer from Tampa Bay Lightning

6yrs at 4.75 per and maybe try without the NTC?

Tampa Bay GM wrote:6yrs at 4.75 per and maybe try without the NTC?

See the League Memos thread. I'll try a max bonus plus NTC first.