The EHE Trade Deadline for the 2021-22 season is a little over 40 days away, on Saturday, May 21 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 20 simulation or he will not be considered as "on roster" for the May 22 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 Friday, May 20. 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, 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 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.