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1. Salary cap will be 70M. Floor will be 52.5M. League minimum player salary will be 700K.
2. RFAs are being changed. Current RFAs can receive offer sheets for their calculator worth until the post-draft rollover. After that, they can be made offers at a 10% increase of their listed salary, for a one-year deal. Salaries below 700K will be adjusted to that number. Matching offers will be determined by a random draw. RFAs can be traded like rights trades. Note that these offered salaries are the minimum; you are free to offer more, of course, just like bidding for UFAs, but you may pay more in compensation.
3. Rights trades can still be made (and are encouraged), however new salaries will be determined using the calculator. There will be no more arbitrations for rights trades.
4. UFAs will now have a bracket system for length of contract, as follows:
...offers from 700K to 1M = 1-2 years
...offers over 1M to 3M = 1-3 years
...offers over 3M to 5M = 1-5 years
...offers over 5M = 1=7 years
Offers which exceed this bracket in terms of contract length will be subject to the 10% per year increase that currently applies to long-term contracts for players coming off of their ELC (so-called "bridge contracts").
5. Buyouts and player releases are being revised. Up to the "game rollover" (which happens post-draft; you will be notified on the boards of this), buyouts and releases will be handled under current rules. After that point, releases for players making over 1M will be handled like buyouts, and a penalty of a percentage of the player's salary will be applied to the team's overall salary. In addition, no player currently "under buyout" (ie, with a buyout percentage applied to your cap) can be re-signed by that team. Example: NYR releases in December 2016 a player under a 2-year deal. I suffer a percentage penalty of his salary applied to my cap, plus I cannot re-sign this player for the 16-17 or 17-18 seasons. Any other GM can make this player an offer under regular free agent rules.
6. We will no longer have goalie arbitrations. (No more arbitrations at all, you may have noticed.) Instead, the following brackets will be used to determine goalie salaries, based on POT and CON.
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POT $ CON $
69- 0.7 69- -0.1
70 1 70 0
71 1.2 71 0.1
72 1.4 72 0.2
73 1.6 73 0.3
74 1.8 74 0.4
75 2 75 0.5
76 2.2 76 0.6
77 2.4 77 0.7
78 2.6 78 0.8
79 2.8 79 0.9
80 3 80 1
81 3.2 81 1.1
82 3.4 82 1.2
83 3.6 83 1.3
84 3.8 84 1.4
85 4 85 1.5
86 4.2 86 1.6
87 4.6 87 1.7
88 5 88 1.8
89 5.5 89 1.9
90 6 90 2
91+ 6.5 91+ 2.2
7. The day before the start of the regular season, there will be a "waiver day." Every player age 24-and-over that you a) have on your training camp roster and wish to send to the farm, or b) have on your farm team during training camp, will be subject to waivers. This will not apply to players on their ELC.
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