Since we've been running on the accelerated schedule in the past couple of weeks, that brought the EHE Trade Deadline to us in a hurry! This is the final week of trading for this season! We're doing the Deadline a little bit different this year with having it take place a few hours after the single sim on Friday, June 7. Officially, the Deadline takes place Saturday, June 8, at 2am EDT / 6am GMT / June 7 at 11pm PDT.
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 second June 6 simulation or he will not be considered as "on roster" for Clear Day as of the second sim on Saturday, June 8, explained below. The same goes for players requiring waivers to be sent to the minors in order to count for the AHL playoffs.
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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 are allowed to be demoted after the deadline for use 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 only 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 regular 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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Saturday, June 8 will also be the last day that you may assign a Franchise Player tag for it to count for this season. Submissions must be made before games are simulated on this day.
Trade Deadline! - June 8, 2024
Re: Trade Deadline! - June 8, 2024
This trade deadline is EXHAUSTING and I kinda love it