The EHE Trade Deadline for the 2020-2021 season is now just 30 days away! It was previously suggested and is now confirmed to be Sunday, May 9 at 3pm EDT.
Any trades posted after this time will be rejected and any players acquired from waivers after the deadline will NOT be eligible for the playoffs.
In turn, if you think you will need to waive someone in order clear roster space for a player you hope to acquire, that player needs to be placed on waivers before the May 8 simulation or he will not be considered as "on roster" for the May 10 Clear Day, explained below. Essentially, this means that the last day you can send waiver-eligible players to the minors and have them count for the AHL playoffs is Saturday, May 8. For this case, Saturday will be considered as a waiver processing day and players waived on Friday, May 7 could clear on Sunday (normally it would be Monday).
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An important thing to remember about the trade deadline: You will still be able to shuttle players between the NHL and AHL levels for the remainder of the season. However, the AHL roster that you set directly following the trade deadline is your permitted roster for the AHL playoffs.
The only players that will be allowed to be demoted after the deadline to play and be eligible to play in the AHL playoffs are: those with at least 20 AHL games played before the trade deadline, those who were unable to be sent down at the deadline due to team injury woes, or those who are recalled after the deadline has passed.
Note that if you assign someone to the AHL in order to qualify them, they need to actually play on your farm team. For example, Isles can't simply send Sam Carrick down on the day after the trade deadline just to qualify him and then call him right back up. He needs to actually play games in the AHL.
These rules are in place to prevent teams from stacking their AHL rosters once they are eliminated from NHL playoff contention.
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This is also the last day that you may assign a Franchise Player tag for it to count for this season. It must be submitted before the games are simulated on Trade Deadline Day.
Keep in mind that the Expansion Draft is somewhat around 4 months away. This is not your last opportunity to acquire players to be compliant for expansion but you should definitely be taking this into consideration during this time!
Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
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Sweet_Doug
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Re: Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
Good stuff.
Re: Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
i just read the cba about the exp draft and for example the special rules like injured 60 games so must i protect klefbom or not?
Re: Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
The 60 games injured is in respect of players that need to be exposed. Some may not qualify for exposure if they are long term injured.
You can still protect guys on LTIR.
Re: Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
ok i understood it wrong then i tought like klefbom is excluded ot proection cause of his ltir status but still be protected
Re: Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
Hey Kevin - Just want to check and see if you noticed this is Mother's Day and if that might effect a change of dates at all?
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blues_shaun
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Re: Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
My deadline day will essentially be Saturday night...I believe that is something most of us can work around easily enough....no need to change it.
Re: Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
Right exactly. There are 145 preceding days to make trades or declare franchise players. It's just a deadline. I'd much rather have a player on my roster a month before the deadline than wait until the last minute to get them and minimize the number of games they can play for me.blues_shaun wrote: ↑Mon. Apr. 26, 2021 12:31 pmMy deadline day will essentially be Saturday night...I believe that is something most of us can work around easily enough....no need to change it.
Re: Trade Deadline! - May 9, 2021
Just a few days left until the trade deadline but I do want to give you guys some warning about processing and sim times for the weekend. I'm scheduled to get my 2nd vaccination tomorrow. So who knows how I'll be feeling Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Unfortunately for me, Eric is moving this weekend so he can't cover for me if I'm not feeling well.
As always, your first step for reviewing any league rules should be to look at the CBA. If you cannot find an answer to a question, yourself, please ask Travis or Doug and they should be able to assist you. If your question is sim-related and you don't see me online, see if either of them can answer it and if not, they'll reach out to me.
My availability will be entirely subject to how I'm feeling. I'll do my best to run the sim at the normal scheduled times but don't be surprised if they happen at a more random time on those days. Hopefully everything will be fine and you'll see the Hurricanes status icon lit consistently throughout the weekend.
This is where Eric would insert a GIF of Samuel L. Jackson saying, "Hold onto your butts..."
As always, your first step for reviewing any league rules should be to look at the CBA. If you cannot find an answer to a question, yourself, please ask Travis or Doug and they should be able to assist you. If your question is sim-related and you don't see me online, see if either of them can answer it and if not, they'll reach out to me.
My availability will be entirely subject to how I'm feeling. I'll do my best to run the sim at the normal scheduled times but don't be surprised if they happen at a more random time on those days. Hopefully everything will be fine and you'll see the Hurricanes status icon lit consistently throughout the weekend.
This is where Eric would insert a GIF of Samuel L. Jackson saying, "Hold onto your butts..."