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Post by bluejacketsgm on Aug 27, 2011 20:23:03 GMT -5
well in all fairness i think you need to make an iron clad statement as to how the policy will always be because i plan a few seasons in advance as to which players I acquire. I had a trio of guys who were all set to become UFA's in two years and I had been working hard to trade two of them so I didn't outright lose one or have them become devalued because I'm trading them in their UFA year.
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Post by LosAngelesGM on Aug 27, 2011 20:46:05 GMT -5
Well Nick, if you want my suggestion, we have seen how it plays out when you can only resign 1 UFA and you have 3-4 good ones on your team. We also forsee a weak FA with all possible UFA signings happening.
My vote is to meet in the middle and give each team 2 UFA's to resign. Well, 1 offer each for 2 UFA's. I think if teams are fair in their offer, they wont be seeing a mass exodus of players each season. I also think itll keep FA fun and filled with some good quality players. Some FA will be better than others, but thats how the NHL goes too. Some are full of stars, some are weak (last FA for NHL was poop).
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Post by oilersgm on Aug 27, 2011 20:59:09 GMT -5
id do 2 this yr 1 next yr
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Post by yzerman on Aug 27, 2011 21:36:12 GMT -5
i usually find that if you use more than 1 ufa autosign, then the ufa market gets watered down too much. that being said, i think ufa autosigns should also be tradeable, if a team doesnt want to use theirs, they can get value out of it, and if a team needs more, they can acquire them without too many ufa's getting signed
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Post by bluejacketsgm on Aug 27, 2011 21:55:18 GMT -5
id do 2 this yr 1 next yr I don't think the rules can or should be changed this close to the deadline because a lot of us have acquired folks based on contract length etc. and soon enough we won't be able to trade anyway because this is so close to the deadline. I talked with Nick early on in the season about some other possibilities for our UFA resigns...I suggested that if we have a year where we don't have any UFA's that we want to make offers to we could opt to do one contract extension for another of our players.
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Post by Avs on Aug 28, 2011 0:00:34 GMT -5
i think ufa autosigns should also be tradeable, if a team doesnt want to use theirs, they can get value out of it, and if a team needs more, they can acquire them without too many ufa's getting signed Along this line of thought, teams should be able to negotiate with their free agents (or at least 1) during the season. I had been working on my roster thinking that we only were allowed to negotiate with one UFA per season as that's what I was told near the beginning of the season by another gm To be fair, the rules are in black and white on the rules page. Using the excuse that "another GM told me" wouldn't fly in court.
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Post by ECFHL Commissioner on Aug 28, 2011 0:12:28 GMT -5
In his defense, I'm pretty sure he asked me and I told him it was 1, hence this thread.
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Post by leafs on Aug 28, 2011 0:44:40 GMT -5
I like the idea of being able to defer UFA resignings and use them to extend other player(s)
Also we need to clairfy here, 1 auto UFA resigning and 1 UFA contract extension offer are completely different things. If you ask me one offer to one UFA isn't worth much,.
That's just my 2 cents
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Post by NJDevils on Aug 28, 2011 1:07:48 GMT -5
What about a certain amount of years that we can hand out to resign players? Each team can hand out 4-5 years per off season, but shorter term deal cost less percentage increase wise then long term deals either forcing you to spend more money to keep a few or spend less money to keep one.
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Post by flapanthersgm on Aug 28, 2011 1:56:58 GMT -5
I'm for the option of offering to only 1 UFA. That is how teams go from being bad one season to being good the next in real life. A rich and filled free agency is fun and competitive for teams to fight for players, it gives teams with high cap space the ability to get better veteran players. What's the point of everyone just being able to retain all of their players? Thats no fun.
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