RESOURCES for the ARMCHAIR KINGS GM

[ryan]

There were a few people wondering if the T.J. Fast trade had to do with being limited to the number of slots available on the 50-90 list.

(For those not familiar, the rules state that you can only have 90 players total in your organization. A maximum of 50 of those players can be signed to a NHL-level contract and no more than 40 can be drafted prospects who have yet to be signed by their team or guys who have been signed, but are still playing with their junior teams.)

I consulted Irish Blues and here's the result:

Q: When do unrestricted free agents come off of the 50 contract limit so that a team can sign new players to replace them?

A: July 1.

Q: So if a team already has 50 contracts given out does that mean they're unable to sign anybody until July 1?

A: If today you sign a player to a contract that starts with the 2008-09 season, he does not count toward the 50-contract limit right now because we're still in the 2007-08 League Year and he's not under contract for this League Year; he will start counting on July 1, when his contract becomes valid for the then-current League Year. Thus, you could have 55 players signed to a contract right now but have 7 of them not starting until 08-09 (meaning 48 are signed for 2007-08) and 9 UFA's dropping off - and be fine.

Q: Then what about drafted players and the 40-man limit?

A: I'm 99% certain that if you draft a player at the 2008 Entry Draft, he does not count toward your 90-man reserve limit until July 1 - even if you sign him the day after the draft.

[Wolvie]

A smattering of edits, including a new link to PuckU's asset list over at HF.

[Wolvie]

I just updated the Lombardi asset acquisition history to reflect the weekend's events. I also added a link to the Asset Management section with all the Kings trades (historically) as per the Kings official website. It's their official site, so I figured it was worthy of a link, but it isn't consistent with other info they have on the site, so take it with a grain of salt...

[Wolvie]

Courtesy of TonySCV (posted at HF), here's a link to a very fascinating article from Bob McKenzie about how the cap is now essentially a "hard" cap:

Could it be the last season of this CBA?

If you're an armchair GM, this most certainly concerns you.

[Dr. Naysay]

My eyes glazed over... other than not being able to roll incentive bonuses over into the following season is there anything else?

[No One]

Originally Posted by Dr. Naysay

My eyes glazed over... other than not being able to roll incentive bonuses over into the following season is there anything else?

Nope.

What is means is that the $56.7 is a HARD cap. There is no 7.5% Bonus cushion for this season.

[No One]

OFFER COMPENSATION

$863,156 or below : None
Over $863,156 to $1,307,812: Third-round choice
Over $1,307,812 to $2,615,625 : Second-round choice
Over $2,615,625 to $3,923,437 : First-round and third-round choice
Over $3,923,437 to $5,231,249 : First-round, second-round and third-round choice
Over $5,231,249 to $6,539,062: Two first-round choices, one second- and one third-round choice
Over $6,539,062 : Four first-round choices


List of free agents..

NHL.com - 2008 NHL Offseason News - 2008 NHL Free Agent List

[Wolvie]

Linked! Thanks again, No One.

Originally Posted by No One

OFFER COMPENSATION

$863,156 or below : None
Over $863,156 to $1,307,812: Third-round choice
Over $1,307,812 to $2,615,625 : Second-round choice
Over $2,615,625 to $3,923,437 : First-round and third-round choice
Over $3,923,437 to $5,231,249 : First-round, second-round and third-round choice
Over $5,231,249 to $6,539,062: Two first-round choices, one second- and one third-round choice
Over $6,539,062 : Four first-round choices


List of free agents..

NHL.com - 2008 NHL Offseason News - 2008 NHL Free Agent List

[No One]

The Kings only potential case is Stoll, thereby making the Kings ineligible to use the "buyout outside the regular period".

[No One]

        Player           Team    Status    2007/08 Salary
Lehtonen, Kari             ATL     RFA*     2,200,000
Oystrick, Nathan          ATL     RFA*     650,000
Boychuk, Johnny          BOS     RFA*     475,000
Paille, Daniel                BUF     RFA*     585,200
LaRose, Chad              CAR     RFA*     500,000
Seidenberg, Dennis       CAR     RFA*     850,000
Bourque, Rene             CGY     RFA*     900,000
Richmond, Danny          CHI     RFA*     550,000
Leclaire, Pascal            CLB     RFA*     1,400,000
Rome, Aaron                CLB     RFA*     495,000
Umberger, R.J.             CLB     RFA*     1,250,000
Wilson, Clay                CLB     RFA*     585,000
Mccormick, Cody         COL     RFA*     475,000
McLeod, Cody             COL     RFA*     490,000
Svatos, Marek             COL     RFA*     1,200,000
Filppula, Valtteri          DET     RFA*     850,000
Bouwmeester, Jay        FLA     RFA*     2,250,000
Ersberg, Erik             LOS      RFA*       575,000
Stoll, Jarret                LOS    RFA*     2,200,000
Scott, John                MIN     RFA*     475,000
Veilleux, Stephane       MIN     RFA*     595,000
Bouchard, Pierre-Marc  MIN      RFA*      2,600,000
Degon, Marvin            MON     RFA*     560,000
Gorges, Josh              MON     RFA*     495,000
Ellison, Matt              NAS     RFA*     550,000
Klein, Kevin               NAS     RFA*     500,000
Koistinen, Ville           NAS     RFA*     475,000
Bergenheim, Sean      NYI     RFA*     500,000
Tambellini, Jeff          NYI     RFA*     882,720
Sjostrom, Fredrik       NYR     RFA*     800,000
Vermette, Antoine     OTT     RFA*     1,075,000
Guenin, Nathan         PHI     RFA*     585,000
Thoresen, Patrick      PHI     RFA*     542,500
Clowe, Ryane            SJ     RFA*     600,000
Ehrhoff, Christian       SJ     RFA*     900,000
Goc, Marcel              SJ     RFA*     800,000
Morris, Mike              SJ     RFA*     730,600
McClement, Jay        STL     RFA*     700,000
Toivonen, Hannu      STL     RFA*     532,000
Woywitka, Jeff         STL     RFA*     689,700
Sifers, Jaime           TOR     RFA*     585,000
Stajan, Matt           TOR     RFA*     950,000
Rypien, Rick           VAN     RFA*     475,000
Gordon, Boyd          WAS     RFA*     650,000
Laich, Brooks          WAS     RFA*     725,000
Morrisonn, Shaone    WAS     RFA*     900,000
 

This is list is from NHLSCAP, and I made some small changes, like changing Umberger and Stoll, however I have not edited out whatever signings have occured (or trades I forgot about).

[BigMike]

Is there a resource on here that shows what players have 2 way contracts I want to send some people to the minors as an armchair GM but I don't think they are eligible. What the hell do I do with them? Healthy scratches? See Ivanans, Zeiler, perhaps Armstrong and Handzus :I