2yrs 0.5m per

I see the Amnesty clause as the out for the injured folk, although I missed that date for Pronger so now I have that headache (pun intended) for at least the rest of this year.

I actually laughed out loud a little bit at this. Okay just chuckled to myself but still, good stuff haha.



I'm not sure how you could prevent people bidding up on Selanne and then buying him out next year or the year after.... Any contending team going for it this year would rather pay him 2m this year (6m bid) or 3m this year (9m bid) and then worry about the consequences next year and beyond for the buyout. If you're close to a championship and are going all out for it this year, why not take that burden and free up some extra cap for yourself this year for other players?
But that's the thing - It's up to you about how to run your team. If you're going for it, it makes perfect sense. I don't really see anyone signing Teemu to a 6m - 8m per year contract for one year.... Don't think anyone things that's going to happen.

Not sure how you could set it up, but maybe give a retirement fee of a lesser percentage to guys who actually DO retire out of the blue (ie. Brian Rafalski last year) where no one really saw it coming.
BUT, using Selanne as an example this year, and I guess Lidstrom last year.... If a player is old, and is a Free Agent in this league... And then retires next year, the team should be accountable for the 66% under normal buy-out rules. Don't think it would be that difficult to police that one...
And you have to know that if a guy is 38-41 years old, and has 1 year left on his contract, or he just signed only a 1-year contract in the NHL after humming and hawing about retirement, they're probably not going to play another 3 years in the NHL!
(On that note, I was very surprised to see Dallas dish out 9m to Ray Whitney for 2 years at his age!!).
Probably wouldn't be tough to put in some sort of rule regarding this, because I don't think it happens THAT often where a fantasy-worthy player keeps dragging on his career one year at a time like Selanne.

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aug18-12: added team icon.

Ah, interesting. I thought he was supposed to be a good up and comer a couple years back!

Anyways, yeah, I'll hold onto guys until that deadline. Never know what trades may bring or if a couple of the guys make an NHL club this year and I can call em up.

Thanks for the info.

Taking over, I guess this team is over the Minor League Roster limit.

We're going to let go of the following players, who hopefully won't come back to bite this fantasy franchise in the butt!!


D - Colby Cohen, N/C, (3 Games)
D - Michael Paliotta, N/C, (0 Games)
G - Chet Pickard, N/C, (0 Games)