Trade Deadline! - May 27, 2023

[Kevin]

Thanks for your input regarding the timing of this year's EHE Trade Deadline! I'm glad to hear that it should not conflict too much for people. Last year, it was on Victoria Day weekend so this year it will be the Americans turn to have it on a holiday weekend. This year's Deadline will occur on Saturday, May 27 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 26 simulation or he will not be considered as "on roster" for Clear Day on Sunday, May 28, explained below. Essentially, this means that the last day you can send waiver-eligible players to the minors to have them count for the AHL playoffs is Friday, May 26. For this case, Saturday will be considered as a waiver processing day and players waived on this day 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, Capitals can't simply send Kale Clague 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 will also be 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.

[Kevin]

Doug pointed out to me that the dates in the thread were wrong, though the days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) and the countdown clock on the site were accurate. I've made these corrections. Please remember the important deadlines that begin on Friday!