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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2014 20:02:44 GMT -5
Hi all, The VHL Staff Committee is happy to announce that the negotiation period for contract extensions beyond the 2013-14 season is now open. The salary cap for the 2014-15 VHL Season is announced to be $70.2M. This represents the NHL Salary Cap from the 2012-13 shortened season. For the 2015-16 VHL Season, we will go back to being one year behind the NHL, and use the NHL's 2014-15 Salary Cap (latest estimates are at $71.1M). Offers for UFA's should be sent to ufa.vhlpa.agent@gmail.com. Offers for RFA's should be sent to rfa.vhlpa.agent@gmail.com Please refer to the VHL Rulebook for all other pertinent information. Thank you. |
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Post by Corey Scott on Feb 6, 2014 20:39:32 GMT -5
Nice, I was planning to have to stay at 64.3 million or under, so this gives me almost 6 million extra to work with. Might be able to go after another big name to add to my team now.
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Post by Andre Deblois on Feb 8, 2014 15:53:33 GMT -5
Everyone, we have already had a few GMs using player's NHL contracts as comparables in their negotiations. Be aware that if your player has signed a long, long term extension, paying them well into their late 30s-early 40s, their AAV (cap hit) was reduced in exchange for longer term.
As we do not allow such long term contracts, if you have a player in his prime, expect to pay a higher AAV as you cannot artificially decrease it with longer term.
An excellent example of this is Henrik Zetterberg. Signed in the NHL at a reasonable rate 6 million and changed, but signed until he is 41. In the VHL, with lesser term, Zetterberg signed for 8.5 million per year.
Please take this into consideration when sending in contract offers.
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Post by Matthew Tanti on Feb 26, 2014 1:47:20 GMT -5
thankfully i only need to resign gudbranson, other then that, i will have over 28million in cap space to play with
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Post by Buffalo Sabres on Feb 26, 2014 12:37:05 GMT -5
wow. bet your team looks totally different next year. look out for philly making a splash!!
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Post by Matthew Tanti on Feb 26, 2014 21:22:37 GMT -5
yup, hopefully. add some vets to this roster of youth
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2014 21:03:57 GMT -5
$38M in cap space before Kovalchuk's contract becomes voided....leaving me with $45M to make some moves and mold this team how I want it with only my young farm players to re-sign.
Gonna be a BUSY off-season in Winnipeg!
Hoping the top Free Agents take notice of this and don't cheat themselves out of a nice payday....our wallets will be WIDE open this summer!
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Post by Zoran on Mar 13, 2014 18:03:17 GMT -5
I am wondering what is the logic behind the negotiation process!?
I dont know if its relevant to compare players with other contracts signed here if we are going to ignore the contracts that the players have signed themself just a few months ago in the real world!? Isnt that relevant and fair!? Where is the logic!? And I am not talking about 12 year contracts with low AAV. I am talking about pretty much same term and cap numbers.
We are asked to put forward a reasoning in our contract offers, yet the most imortant part information is being thrown in the garbage!?
We have the same salary cap and the ratings are based on the players performance in the real world. Why arent the contracts reflecting that!?
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Post by Andre Deblois on Mar 13, 2014 18:22:06 GMT -5
I am wondering what is the logic behind the negotiation process!? I dont know if its relevant to compare players with other contracts signed here if we are going to ignore the contracts that the players have signed themself just a few months ago in the real world!? Isnt that relevant and fair!? Where is the logic!? And I am not talking about 12 year contracts with low AAV. I am talking about pretty much same term and cap numbers. We are asked to put forward a reasoning in our contract offers, yet the most imortant part information is being thrown in the garbage!? We have the same salary cap and the ratings are based on the players performance in the real world. Why arent the contracts reflecting that!? I have just sent you an email explaining why we use VHL salaries as a baseline rather then NHL salaries, if you have any further questions, please send them my way via PM or email and I will do my best to help you out. |
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Post by Corey Scott on Mar 13, 2014 18:33:45 GMT -5
Contracts should be a little higher in the VHL simply because of the fact that every team in the VHL can spend to the cap every year compared to some teams in the NHL having internal cap limits that are below the salary ceiling.
With that being said, I have felt in the past that our reasoning wasn't being taken into account as much as it should in the negotiating process. Sometimes it is taken into account a lot, which is great for negotiation purposes (makes it feel like one), however sometimes (mostly in the past years) it seems that it is completely disregarded and makes me feel like sending in a generic x years for x salary per year would help me as much as writing a paragraph or two does. I believe this simply comes down to depending on which agent/staff member ends up sending back the email to me.
With that being said, this year has been better then past years for responses from my emails taking into account what I bring up.
However I still dislike the lack of negotiating power that you gain from having a rfa. That area still seems to be completely set aside in the negotiation process making it appear (at least to me) like there is absolutely zero difference between being a ufa or a rfa. It gets brought up a lot in the negotiation process, but the moment you try to buy out a ufa season it seems to be that you need to pay for every season of the contract as if they were a ufa the entire time. I still think it stems from our low compensation for offer sheets, but that is a different issue to what Colorado brought up.
When I look at it all though, the responses have been pretty good in terms of taking into account what I have said. I just really wish that having a rfa player brought more weight to the table.
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