Rick Blight
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5 hours ago, Bob.Loblaw said:
The Pittsburgh Penguins are ecstatic to announce the signing of Jayden Grubbe, signed to an ELC contract of 3 years at $985,000 AAV. Selected by the New York Rangers in the third round of the 2021 NHL Draft, Grubbe has found a new home in
PittsburghWilkes-Barre/ScrantonCalifornia, where he will play on loan for the Oilers AHL affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors. Known for his defensive two-way prowess, we believe Jayden will develop into a strong, powerful forward and find a place on the main roster sooner than later.We look forward to his upcoming games in Penticton! #LetsGoPens
Congratulations on getting a great kid Bob! I got to know Jayden a bit as his dad is my grandson's hockey coach and he also plays with Jayden's brother.
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18 minutes ago, Ilunga said:
What do these " phases " involve ?
And what does W/ E mean in regards to teams to interested ?
I believe the E & W are indicators of how many Eastern teams vs Western teams have submitted offers.
PHASE 1: TAKING OFFERS
In this phase agents will simply be taking offers and not replying.(Minimum of 3 days)
PHASE 2: SSOFT COUNTERS
Agent will provide GMs with soft counters. Soft counters is more to give an idea of what it MIGHT take to sign them. You can choose to offer the players ask, offer more, or less after that.(Will try and wait for replies, but could proceed to phase 3 without response. Minimum 24 hours)
PHASE 3: EVALUATING OFFERS
In this phase there should be a couple front runners that the agent will start getting down to business with. They will let other GMs know they are out of the running (or close to) and focus on the favorites. This doesn't mean a team can't come out of the blue with a better offer. An agent will still consider another offer during this phase if they see it benefiting his clients needs.(No time frame)
PHASE 4: DECISION TIME
In this phase the agent has pretty much finished talks and is making their decision. Time is ticking to get an offer in. Chances of getting a last minute deal done at this time is slim, but not impossible.(Expect a decision within 1-24 hours after PHASE 4 has begun)
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21 minutes ago, Gator said:
FREE AGENCY TALKS HEATING UP
Olivier Nadeau - 4 teams interested
James Malatesta - 3 teams interested
Jayden Grubbe - 4 teams interestedThese 3 players will enter phase 2 tomorrow. Interested GMs should expect a reply.
Get your offers in or risk missing out!
Kind of an intimidating agent........I'll probably cave and give in to all your demands!
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31 minutes ago, MeanSeanBean said:
Minnesota will recall Podkolzin and Rathbone to NHL lineup.
How does a ECL players cap work if they play in a junior league? Will I still be on the hook for Wright, or is that when the slide thing comes into play? I'm not sure where he's going to play yet this year, since there was even talk about him playing in the AHL as an underager?
MSB, I think you are going to have to get a ruling from the Commish as this is a bit of a unique situation.
Wright did have his contract slide in real life last year as he only played 8 NHL games but he will still only be 19 as of September 15th this year so he may be eligible for a slide in our league. If the ruling is you can slide him this year you will not be on the hook for his cap BUT you will not be allowed to play him in the NHL at all this year. If the ruling goes against you then you will be on the hook for his cap either at the NHL level or against your AHL cap if you demote him. I see you are already over your AHL cap so you would have to adjust your Front Office budget if you demote him.
Hope this helps.....
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1 hour ago, Primal Optimist said:
For GM's who would like to know who is still available, I gift to you all my santized draft 'cheat cheet'.
As it is now: any player greyed out on any of the 32 NHL team tabs has been selected in the Draft
Any player with a white background is generally available for free agent offers, as long as they are not eligible for next summers entry draft by their age status.
I have removed my strategic tabs and colour codes now so it is free for all to use/enjoy.
Hope this helps new and veteran GM's alike; Cheers
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12xXVIYqQCY0HWlecIjqdkKzzAnBHgvCM5OaSLfHoHDQ/edit?usp=sharing
I guess it is only fair to share our front office management team's drafting strategy as well................
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7 minutes ago, Relyt Krets said:
Please note a few things when sending in offers for free agents.
-What role will the player be playing on your team (top 6, top line, top 4 ETC)
-Small blurb about why the player should choose to sign with your team (Does not need to be long paragraphs, just a sentence or two)What are the mechanics of this process? Do we submit an offer to an Agent? Do they assess all offers up to a certain time or just approve if it is deemed a reasonable offer? Do we get to raise our offer against other bidders, ETC?
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2 minutes ago, Primal Optimist said:
potential outcomes at their worst would see the 28th team drop to 13th, at worst, (or maybe 12th if i am wrong about being able to drop three spots in the lottery) but the rule was meant to punish the biggest tankers, and so the worst overall team should be the one that potentially drops to 13th overall as a worst case scenario.
I thought the intent was to punish the bottom 5 teams equally. With these rules in place nobody is going to "tank" to finish last and it will just be a result of their team not being competitive enough. As you stated, the only "tanking" I could see would be to finish 6th from the bottom but that would be almost impossible to do in my mind.
I guess it really comes down to whether or not we want to "penalize" the bottom 5 teams in some kind of priority order.
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13 minutes ago, Primal Optimist said:
Thinking about the bottom five anti tanking rule, I think it was Theo pointed out the 28th worst team seems to get 'punished' worse than the 32nd worst team by the rule.
THinking this through; my understanding is this:
~the regular season standings at the end of the season are used for pairing the CDCGFL club to its NHL equivalent for the draft lotto purposes
~the lotto is carried out in the NHL and its results dictate our results due to the pairing of CDCGFL teams and their NHL equivalents.
~We already know the 28th thru 32nd worst team might fall 3 places at worst in this process (something is reminding me that clubs can only fall 2 spots, but i can't remember how that works now, three for these illustrative purposes though)
~after the draft lotto a penalty will then be applied to the regular season worst 5 clubs for finishing in the bottom 5 teams: each of these clubs will then be dropped 5 places in the draft order.
Seems easy peasy and simple and a decent punishment while still allowing higher end draft picks to help make the club better.
Theo pointed out though that in theory the 5th place team could be bumped to 8th overall draft pick via the lotto and then another five by league rule to 13th overall while the 32nd place club who tanked the worst would only possibly drop 3 places in the lotto to fourth and then another five by rule to 9th overall as its worst possible outcome.
THis seems to punish finishing 28th worse than finishing 32nd.
There was some chat about how teams would try to come in sixth and therefore 'minitank' from say 10th worst down to closer to sixth: and IMO that is fine, but dangerous for them because the anti tank rule will have those bottom five clubs, and sixth and 7th worst as well all trying to get a bit higher so they are not punished by the rule, so any micro tanking to get closer to sixth is likely to come up against those trying to rise up and could very likely put your club in the 'bottom five'. Something to think on, but it does add another level of tactics and strategies to a GM's possible planning.
I propose, here officially, instead of just the discord chat that we insert, before the lotto pairing, a flip of the placing from 28th to 32nd. This puts the 5th worst club in spot 1 and the 32nd worst club in spot 5 for draft lotto purposes, and reverses their maximum punishments so the worst team 'could' end up picking 13th overall while the 5th worst team 'could' end up picking 9th overall.
Easy fix to what I think was an unforseen outcome. The objective is to keep clubs competitive so we dont have Arizona's popping up over the years that will eventually just fold due to lack of interest, like we see in other leagues that dont have an anti tanking rule. Overall, i think the rule will keep 32nd to 19th or 20th fighting to put up points rather than fighting to shed points for a reward for sucking. The top 16 more or less are in the playoffs and those middle five will be pushing for playoffs generally. I think five is the perfect spot to do this, as originally designed, and if we simply invert their order before the draft lotto pairing it solves the unwanted outcome of 5th overall possibly dropping to 13th overall and instead swaps that punishment to the worst overall club.
Sorry for the wall of text but i wanted to describe it in full context for those who weren't on discord chatting about it.
See bolded above.
I am not sure I agree that the one team receives more benefit than the other. In both cases the teams are dropping the same number of spots (1st to 9th and 5th to 13th) so I don't really understand why this is not fair.
Wouldn't it be that our bottom 5 would be seeded 6th to 9th and all could possibly just slide 2 spots depending on how the lottery goes?
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Calgary Flames select Marek Alscher.
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The Calgary Flames are proud to select Brody Lamb.
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4 minutes ago, MeanSeanBean said:
Bumping this. Is it only Gator who can change this?
I believe that @Relyt Krets can as well.
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Calgary Flames Projected Opening Night Lineup
LW - Tim Stutzle (C) C - Elias Lindholm RW - Yegor Sharangovich
LW - Victor Olofsson C - Mason McTavish (A) RW - Lucas Raymond (A)
LW - Pierre Engvall C - Chandler Stephenson RW - Nino Niederreiter
LW - Sean Kuraly C - Colton Sissons RW - Nicolas Deslaurier
Extra - Cal Clutterbuck
LD - Cam Fowler RD - Christopher Tanev
LD - Mario Ferraro RD - John Klingberg
LD - Calle Rosen RD - Jordan Oesterle
Extra - Logan Stanley
G - Vitek Vanecek
G - Laurent Brossoit
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On 8/11/2023 at 10:06 PM, Rick Blight said:
"Breaking News"..........The Calgary Flames today have announced their leadership team for the 2023/24 season.
The team will be led by the newly announced captain, Tim Stutzle and the two alternate captains, Mason McTavish and Lucas Raymond. This is a young but talented group that we believe will provide strong leadership for many years.
Congratulations to all.
@Gator. the above has not yet been reflected on the Calgary Flames spreadsheet. FYI
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On 8/30/2023 at 3:23 PM, Primal Optimist said:
Best for Gator to give an official answer, my belief is that only 2022 guys can be left without a contract until next June 30th and 2023 draft guys have two seasons beffore their rights expire, everyone else will need a contract before Oct 1 or so. Again I may be misinterpreting things so best for G to weigh in.
Obviously Gator gets the final word but I think we are maybe confusing the two year rule between actual draft years and "our" draft years. The players on your "Unsigned Prospects" list need to be signed (in our fantasy league) in the next two years or you lose their rights. Right now you have one player on your Unsigned Prospects list (Topi Ronni) that you would retain rights on him for two years and by then you would either need to sign him or lose his rights.
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5 minutes ago, NUCKER67 said:
Thanks Rick, this is my first year with this Draft, so I'm learning.
So, we don't need a full AHL team roster?
(e.g.)
22 NHL players
15 AHL players (farm team)
3 unsigned Prospects
= 40 picks
Is this acceptable?
You can have any number of players on your AHL team as long as you remain under the cap and have 50 contracts or less.. They can be any positions, no requirement to build a team.
Your example would be fine.
Of course the Commish may overrule everything I have said.
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[PTO] Zach Aston-Reese with Hurricanes
in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Posted
I believe it is as many as they want BUT it is at least 11 as per the Coyotes.
The Coyotes have signed the following players to PTO agreements: Peter DiLiberatore (D) Olli Juolevi (D) Austin Strand (D) Hunter Drew (F) Ryan Dzingel (F) Patrick Harper (F) Cameron Hebig (F) Micah Miller (F) Austin Poganski (F) Colin Theisen (F) Reece Vitelli (F)