The accelerated schedule once again means that EHE Trade Deadline is rapidly approaching! I think last year's deadline being late into the night really had a positive outcome. However, we did get several requests to go back to holding in on a weekend date. Therefore, this year's Deadline will occur on Saturday, May 17 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 16 simulation or he will not be considered as "on roster" for Clear Day on Sunday, May 18, explained below. 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 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, the Senators can't simply send Henry Thrun 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, May 17 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.