As we wrap up the 8th season of the TOFHL, there are numerous important dates and rules to remind you of. After the Olympic break, we'll run into the NHL and TOFHL trade deadlines, followed by the all important roster freeze and the start of our playoffs. After that, we crown the 8th TOFHL Champion. Finally we select our keepers and begin the off-season. So let's break it all down so you can reference this if you have any questions.
Trade Deadlines
The NHL comes back on Tuesday, February 25th (Tomorrow) from the Olympics with just one game between the Sabres and the Canes, which means this week will be a shortened week. For this week there will A MINIMUM GOALIE REQUIREMENT OF JUST 3 GAMES.
The NHL trade deadline is set for noon eastern on March 5th. So I like to have our deadline after that so we can see the player movement and adjust accordingly. In the early years of the TOFHL a team would make a trade for a player only to have them switch teams int he NHL and their role completely changes. So Yahoo! has the option for March 6th as the last day for us to make a trade, so we're going with that. So that means that 11:59pm is the last minute to complete a trade. Also, if it's a player for a pick trade, has to be emailed out to the league before the midnight deadline.
Regarding emails on trades. Make sure you number the trade in the subject line if it's the 2nd, 3rd, ect. trade of that day. ie: Trade: 2/24/14
Trade: 2/24/14 (2)
Trade: 2/24/14 (3)
The NHL trade deadline is set for noon eastern on March 5th. So I like to have our deadline after that so we can see the player movement and adjust accordingly. In the early years of the TOFHL a team would make a trade for a player only to have them switch teams int he NHL and their role completely changes. So Yahoo! has the option for March 6th as the last day for us to make a trade, so we're going with that. So that means that 11:59pm is the last minute to complete a trade. Also, if it's a player for a pick trade, has to be emailed out to the league before the midnight deadline.
Regarding emails on trades. Make sure you number the trade in the subject line if it's the 2nd, 3rd, ect. trade of that day. ie: Trade: 2/24/14
Trade: 2/24/14 (2)
Trade: 2/24/14 (3)
Roster Freeze
The TOFHL Playoffs and the Roster Freeze coincide with each other every year. This year you must have your minors and main club players in their finals spots, before we get to the first day of playoffs which is March 24th. Once we hit March 24th, you will no longer be able to move a player down to your farm, and all rosters will be locked going forward. The only way you can add a player to your roster is if you pull one of your minors up to the big club, (you can do that at any time, but you cannot replace him or send him back down) or if one of your players MISSES A START OF A GAME, you can replace that player through free agency if you have moves available to use. You must email the commish to do this for you.
If you are a non-playoff team, you must follow the same rules. You may only replace a player on your roster if he gets hurt and misses a start. Waiver rules also apply to pickups during the roster freeze, however it will have to be done manually with an email sent to the commish with your intensions of using your waiver position to pickup a player. The Roster Freeze will hold all the way until we select our keepers and the off-season begins.
If you are a non-playoff team, you must follow the same rules. You may only replace a player on your roster if he gets hurt and misses a start. Waiver rules also apply to pickups during the roster freeze, however it will have to be done manually with an email sent to the commish with your intensions of using your waiver position to pickup a player. The Roster Freeze will hold all the way until we select our keepers and the off-season begins.
Off-Season and Awards BBQ
Here are the changes we made during last years GM Meetings. As you can see we voted to move the start of our off-season back to the end of the Stanley cup playoffs. So the weekend after the Stanley Cup Finals are played out we will have the awards BBQ where we hand out the trophy's and money and the start of the off-season will begin then as well. Thats when we all need to select our 8 keepers and 3 minors. We also will reveal the draft lottery results during at the BBQ. I would love to have everyone there for this, so if you can make it, please try to attend. ZD and Nidetz, we will send the TOFHL satellite truck over to your house for a clear uplink of whats going on.
Thanks for reading all this boring crap. As always, if you have any questions please email, text, or call me.
The Commish
Thanks for reading all this boring crap. As always, if you have any questions please email, text, or call me.
The Commish