Well, it's been another week and although things are fairly quiet around the league right now, behind the scenes they haven't been quiet at all.
The executive team has spent some time reviewing what the addition of the Seattle Kraken will do to overall NHL spending and what that means for the CCHL.
Essentially, an additional $81.5 million in spending in the NHL could equate to about $50,000 more per CCHL game overall, so we've made that adjustment to our per game.
For the upcoming 2021-22 season, teams will now receive $1,3000,000 per win, $1,1000,000 for an OTL or SOL, and a cool one million dollars (I said it like Dr. Evil there), per loss.
We thought it was important to get those figures out to everyone prior to the UFA bidding period since we know there won't be any adjustments to the NHL salary cap for the upcoming season. You may now bid knowing the full financial picture - but that does not mean you should be reckless as a lot of teams could still lose money in that scenario.
Now onto the UFA period. I have sent off the listing to Paul and Bobby this morning to review to ensure we have captured everyone eligible to be signed. Remember, that the player must have played enough games to get on this disk. A few slipped through the cracks last year so as a team we are working to avoid that scenario taking place again.
Hopefully, that review will be done within the week and Paul can kick off the annual UFA bidding by the end of the month.
I had hoped that the disk would be released in time for the UFA period but that is still a minimum of 2 weeks away - and it would be longer by the time things were imported and players were deleted accordingly. We simply cannot wait that long given that's two weeks usually and we need to continue to move forward according to schedule. You can still get an idea on ratings via the Showtime website, but it's important to note that the overall will change a bit (usually a bit higher) because our Simon settings are a bit different.
I would expect that we'll have the new ratings imported shortly after the UFA period. Don't forget that the ratings are based on an average of the last two NHL seasons since they were both shortened.
The unfortunate part about that is that some of the players that have emerged in the last year will not rate accordingly. This is where we have the ratings from another group available and for this year only, we are allowing CCHL GMs to pick up to 3 skaters from their team to change the ratings from the Showtime ratings to that set of ratings since it's a one-year disk. I do caution though, without seeing those ratings, it may not be the windfall that people are hoping it will be as the ratings from the alternate disk aren't necessarily kinder because of how heavily they use defensive/offensive zone starts to determine a lot of areas.
I'd expect we'll be looking to have those adjustments done over the middle to end of June - after that period of time, we'll close the opportunity to make those adjustments so that way we have our standard set.
As you can tell, there is a lot going on over the next while for the league. The exciting part of the off-season is finally upon us with the free-agent period, disk release, and then our annual entry draft.
Stay tuned as things are about to get fun!
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