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Why does making it almost impossible to dump bad contracts benefit the league.Who would pick up Gomez for 3.7M or Huet or Leighton.Remove the need for someone else to pick up dropped players, create a sliding scale on cap hit for amount of contract being dumped.10M dump 4 M hit8M dump 3 M hit6M dump 2 M hit<6M - 1.5M - 25% hit No requirement for anyone to pick up anyone - waivers could have their own scale too.
Please review the proposed change to implement a waiver wire system. Let me know if I missed anything.Proposed changes:Releasing PlayersAny released player signed for less than $1m will not count against the cap and will NOT be put on waivers. Any released player signed for $1m+ still has his contract count against the cap. The released contract will count for 3 years at the most. Any released contracts 4+ years long only count for 3 years. Released players are sent to waivers and will remain on waivers until the end of the season in which they were released. If the released player is not claimed on waivers he will become a free agent. Once a released player is a free agent there is no way for the releasing team to get a reduction to the released contract.WaiversWaiver priority is determined by the prior years standings from worst to first. In our first year this is determined by actual NHL standings and future years will be determined by our standings. After a successful waiver claim the team making the claim moves to the bottom of the waiver priority list. All waiver claims are made on the transaction board. A waiver claim is considered successful once 48 hours have passed with no other claims from teams with higher priority. The claiming team assumes 50% of the players' contract and the original team receives a 50% reduction to the released players contract. ***Players claimed through waivers may not be released in the year they are claimed***
ok , so here is the only loop hole that i could come up with on the new waiver system. What if two teams with similar players / contracts say i will drop my player , if you drop yours and each put a claim on the others players. Then they both receive their 50% discount. Personally I have no problem with it but some could perceive that as a shady deal or as a loop hole.
If we want to add waivers I have no objection to that. However if we want to make it as realistic as possible then there would be no rolling list. The list would always be in the order of worst team to the best team. If a low team makes a successful claim they shouldn't go to the end of the line. In the NHL the claiming team picks up the whole contract. With our league I don't mind the 50% reduction because in the NHL if a player is not claimed the waiving team can place that player in the AHL and the salary doesn't count against the cap anymore.
The releasing team still has to pay 50% of the contract while the claiming team pays 50% of the contract. If they both claimed the other teams player they would have to cover 50% of the contract for the player they released and 50% of the player they claimed. If both of the players have the same cap hit then they are essentially trading the players straight up and the cap hits to the teams would stay the same.
So the current standings on the day the waiver claim is made determines priority? We could do it that way, what do you guys prefer?Corey had said that in the NHL the claiming team assumes 50% of the contract. Which method is correct? Assuming you're right this would make it harder for teams to shed bad contracts. On this I prefer the 50% rule, though I'm fine with either method, whatever you all think is best.
yeah i shruted that one up. whoops. nevermind.
Corey is right and wrong. If your asking how it works in the NHL, When a player is waived initially should a team claim them they assume the entire contract. Once a player clears waivers that can either be assigned to the AHL or be place on re-entry waivers where a team can then put a claim and their contract is split 50/50. That is the way NHL works however for our purposes I think it should be the 50% unless your saying if one of our players clears the waivers they can be stashed in our minor league with no cap hit.