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VHA's UFA Frenzy is set to begin shortly. Here's a recap of the process at hand.

Multiple round process

- There are usually 6 to 8 rounds of UFA Frenzy, usually one per day...
- Not all players are available at once. With every new round, a new batch of about 40 to 45 UFA players become available to listen to offers.
- The 1st round will include all players with a TT along with a batch of other UFAs
- TTs will typically sign at the end of Round 1 and a decision will be made by the team holding the Tag prior to the start of round 2.

Before each round

1) Before submitting offers, check your cap space listed on the SS. It will be updated every day throughout the entire process.
Very important - the sum total of your offers can never exceed your cap space amount.
Remember that outstanding offers you made on players that haven't signed carry over to the next round and are taken in consideration towards your total.

If your offers exceed your cap space, ALL your offers will be void for that round.
This happens every year at least once, without fail.

2) You may have high profile unsigned RFAs to consider

GMs should have a ballpark figure for these players and you are expected to have a reasonable amount leftover to sign these players.

If you need help assessing the value of your unsigned RFAs, feel free to ask one of the admins.
We will be happy to help you with this.

WORKING WITH FA EDITOR

1) Unzip and extract all contents to your desktop (or any folder on your PC)

2) Run Faeditor124.exe

3) Select your team from the drop down menu
NOTE: You may get an Error message that says: "Couldn't find Vitals File, some features may not be available". Just click OK to skip this message.
NOTE: You may get a 2nd Error message that says: "Scoring.htm not found, Show Last season stats not available". Just click OK to skip this message.

4) You should see a list of UFAs for this batch. Scroll down the list and start shopping.

Double-click on a player, another box will open.

5) Enter Salary in millions, ie. 10 represents $10M (also, 1.275 represents $1.275M -- 0.85 represents $85k)

5.1) Minimum NHL amount is 0.775 ($775k). Maximum amount of 20% of the VHA Cap amount (21M)

5.11) Minimum AHL amount is 0.08 ($85k).

5.2) Enter Years, from 1 to 5. Maximum contract length for UFAs in VHA is 5 years.

5.3) Enter Bonus amount: bonus cannot exceed 50% of the yearly salary offered and will be applied in year 1 only.

5.4) Enter pertinent comments for player: There's limited character space, so keep it brief.

5.5) Click OK to continue.

6) When you're done making all your offers for the round, click DONE. A file will called teamname.txt will be generated, ie. WPG.txt. You must email this file to the commissioner in order to register your offer.

1 way and 2 way contracts

1 way deals are assumed.
Use the Comments section to identify if your offer is a 2-way deal:

When you submit a 2 way contract, its the nhl salary that counts towards the cap when calculating your total bids.

RETRACTING YOUR OFFER

-Offers outstanding count towards your cap spending. Meaning, if your offer was not high enough for the player to sign, those carry to the next round until the player signs.
-You must retract your offer in order to get that money back to spend on a different player.
-You can retract your offer if you aren't leading (your team has no * next to it).
-Select the player and use the RETRACT option in the FA Editor program.

You submitted your offers, now what?

Players decide to sign or wait to hear better offers until the next round

There will be an update every 24 hours, with additional players added to each round.
Some players will sign quickly when offers are generous (see SIGNED.txt)
Some will wait for better offers and will remain unsigned and available next round.
If a player is receiving many offers, a bidding war can start and best be prepared to increase your offer significantly.
Note that an * next to the team name indicates the leading bid.

Example: COL has the highest bid on this UFA

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Avoid have your UFA offers voided

1) VHA is not like the NHL. You can't, at any point, go over the cap, meaning if you have NOT budgeted for your RFA's and you go over the cap due to an RFA signing, you will be asked to resolve it immediately and you will be penalized if that's not done.
2) Bank a reasonable estimate amount for your RFAs. If you don't offers can be voided)
3) Having a viable path to filling your roster (aka you can't bid all of your money on 1 UFA and have 5 spots to fill with no remaining cash. Figure each empty spot is at least costing you $775,000 and possibly more. If you don't, offers can be voided)
4) Filling the required AHL slots (Work on 2 way deals with your minors to make sure you've got enough guys in your system. Being at 0 cap with 2 LWs and 2 D in your system is going to mean you cap busted when those contracts get added. Oh and if you do that...offers can be voided)

Things to keep in mind

1) Maintain some space between you and your roster needs
2) Sign 2Way players to fill your farm
3) Correct your cap space issues AFTER UFA and sign anyone who remains, who also allows you to sign your RFA's, have a legal roster and fill your AHL slots
4) There are no buyouts or roster moves DURING UFA, so if you've wiggled into an area you can't get out of now, it's something you'll have to be smart about.

One last time:

PLEASE remember that you can only make offers within your available total cap space.

This is very important. If you exceed your cap amount, ALL your offers will be void for that round.

This happens AT LEAST once every year. So be careful, keep track of your offers and stay within your budget.

Feel free to ask anyone that has used this program before for help.

Thanks!

The Admins

Thanks for the info C-Breeze.

The issue for us isn't really goalies out of position. It's mostly that elite goalies do not stand out compared to lower rated ones in any way whatsoever.

They all let in the weakest goals imaginable.

Will definitely take a look at Mazda's patch.

Hi

We're into our 20th season of NHL 09 and we still don't have a clue what makes goalies tick. Is that good?

It seems ratings have no impact at all on the way they perform in a game or whether you play good defensively in front of him.

A 94OA Hellebuyck, 93OA Vasilevsky or 92OA Shesterkin have been consistently inconsistent and among the worst in the league for a few seasons.

Younger, less experienced goalies can step in and do the job.

Does anyone have any insight on a "sweet spot rating" that makes goalies play better than others in this game?

Thanks in advance!

One particularity of Garner's addon is, it doesn't use the audio ID from Elite's roster.

Almost all players have new audio IDs that you need to change manually in NHLview.

Hope this helps

what's the problem exactly?

does the game crash? or you're just not hearing any of the names

This happened to me as well once. Make sure to run bhimport after you paste the files over.

Forwards (TWF)

BUF Mavrik Bourque new OA: 79 diff: +1
BUF Luca Del Bel Belluz new OA: 77 diff: +3
BUF Alex Turcotte new OA: 80 diff: +2
CAR Joel Farabee new OA: 81 diff: -2
CBJ Nico Sturm new OA: 79 diff: -1
CBJ Fedor Svechkov new OA: 77 diff: +1
CGY Ross Colton new OA: 82 diff: -1
CGY Andrew Mangiapane new OA: 82 diff: -1
CHI Owen Beck new OA: 75 diff: +2
CHI Nikolai Kovalenko new OA: 79 diff: +1
COL Matthew Coronato new OA: 81 diff: +2
COL Matthew Highmore new OA: 77 diff: +1
DAL Mathieu Joseph new OA: 80 diff: -1
DAL Frank Nazar new OA: 78 diff: +1
DAL Calum Ritchie new OA: 76 diff: +1
DET Charlie Coyle new OA: 83 diff: -1
DET Artturi Lehkonen new OA: 85 diff: +1
FLA Emil Heineman new OA: 79 diff: +1
FLA Jimmy Vesey new OA: 79 diff: -1
LA Mason Appleton new OA: 81 diff: -1
LA Pierre Engvall new OA: 79 diff: -2
LA Alex Laferriere new OA: 83 diff: +1
LA Akil Thomas new OA: 77 diff: +1
MIN Connor Brown new OA: 80 diff: +1
MIN Ozzy Wiesblatt new OA: 74 diff: +2
MTL Collin Graf new OA: 77 diff: +1
NJ Ryan Hartman new OA: 82 diff: -1
NJ Anton Lundell new OA: 84 diff: +1
NSH David Kampf new OA: 79 diff: -1
NSH Marco Kasper new OA: 79 diff: +1
NYR J.T. Compher new OA: 83 diff: -1
OTT Ridly Greig new OA: 81 diff: +1
PHI Brett Berard new OA: 77 diff: +2
PHI Anthony Richard new OA: 78 diff: +1
PIT Zachary Bolduc new OA: 79 diff: +1
SEA Connor McMichael new OA: 83 diff: +1
SEA Jakob Pelletier new OA: 78 diff: +1
STL Rory Kerins new OA: 75 diff: +2
TB Cole Reinhardt new OA: 76 diff: +1
UFA Andrew Poturalski new OA: 76 diff: +1
VAN Jason Dickinson new OA: 81 diff: -1
VAN Robby Fabbri new OA: 81 diff: +1
WPG Curtis Lazar new OA: 79 diff: -1
WPG Nikita Nesterenko new OA: 75 diff: +1
WPG Maxim Tsyplakov new OA: 81 diff: +1
WSH Macklin Celebrini new OA: 84 diff: +2

Forwards (SNP)

BOS Nikolaj Ehlers new OA: 87 diff: +1
CAR Jack Eichel new OA: 90 diff: +1
CAR Troy Terry new OA: 85 diff: +1
CGY Yegor Sharangovich new OA: 82 diff: -1
CGY Vladimir Tarasenko new OA: 82 diff: -1
CHI Clayton Keller new OA: 88 diff: +1
CHI Martin Necas new OA: 88 diff: +2
COL Bobby McMann new OA: 81 diff: +1
COL Lucas Raymond new OA: 88 diff: +1
DAL Jiri Kulich new OA: 79 diff: +2
LA Tage Thompson new OA: 88 diff: +1
MIN Anthony Duclair new OA: 80 diff: -2
MIN Jason Zucker new OA: 83 diff: +1
MTL Anthony Mantha new OA: 82 diff: -1
MTL Alex Ovechkin new OA: 87 diff: +1
NSH Daniel Sprong new OA: 79 diff: -2
NYI Carter Verhaeghe new OA: 86 diff: -1
NYR Steven Stamkos new OA: 85 diff: -1
NYR Mika Zibanejad new OA: 86 diff: -1
OTT Connor Bedard new OA: 86 diff: +1
OTT Kirill Marchenko new OA: 85 diff: +2
PHI Seth Jarvis new OA: 86 diff: +1
PIT Adam Henrique new OA: 81 diff: -1
SEA Rickard Rakell new OA: 84 diff: +1
SJ Brandon Saad new OA: 81 diff: -1
STL Pavel Dorofeyev new OA: 82 diff: +1
STL Roope Hintz new OA: 85 diff: -1
TB Kirill Kaprizov new OA: 92 diff: +1
VAN Brock Boeser new OA: 86 diff: -1
VAN Andrei Kuzmenko new OA: 80 diff: -2
VAN Elias Pettersson new OA: 87 diff: -2
VGK Ryan Donato new OA: 82 diff: +1
VGK Nathan MacKinnon new OA: 94 diff: +1
VGK Brock Nelson new OA: 85 diff: -1
WPG Kyle Connor new OA: 89 diff: +1
WSH Dylan Guenther new OA: 84 diff: +1
WSH Nikita Kucherov new OA: 94 diff: +1
WSH Mark Scheifele new OA: 89 diff: 1

Forwards (PWF)

BUF Sam Colangelo new OA: 76 diff: +1
BUF Will Cuylle new OA: 82 diff: +1
BUF Max Jones new OA: 78 diff: -1
CGY Dmitri Voronkov new OA: 83 diff: +1
COL Joel Armia new OA: 81 diff: +1
COL Lawson Crouse new OA: 81 diff: -1
DET Anders Lee new OA: 85 diff: +1
EDM Zach Hyman new OA: 86 diff: -1
LA Miles Wood new OA: 80 diff: -1
NJ J.T. Miller new OA: 88 diff: -1
NSH Timo Meier new OA: 85 diff: -1
NSH Zack Ostapchuk new OA: 77 diff: +1
NYI Dylan Holloway new OA: 83 diff: +2
NYI Tanner Pearson new OA: 80 diff: +1
OTT Josh Anderson new OA: 81 diff: +1
OTT Conor Geekie new OA: 79 diff: +1
OTT Aliaksei Protas new OA: 84 diff: +2
PHI Colton Dach new OA: 77 diff: +5
PIT Leon Draisaitl new OA: 94 diff: +2
PIT Simon Holmstrom new OA: 82 diff: +1
PIT Nathan Legare new OA: 75 diff: +1
PIT Vasili Podkolzin new OA: 80 diff: +1
PIT Samuel Poulin new OA: 76 diff: +1
SEA Morgan Barron new OA: 79 diff: -1
SEA Justin Brazeau new OA: 80 diff: +1
SEA Chris Kreider new OA: 84 diff: -2
SJ Liam Ohgren new OA: 76 diff: +1
STL Matthew Knies new OA: 83 diff: +1
TOR Nick Bjugstad new OA: 81 diff: -1
VGK Brad Lambert new OA: 75 diff: +1
WPG Pierre-Luc Dubois new OA: 85 diff: +1
WPG Tom Wilson new OA: 85 diff: +1

Forwards (PLY)

BOS Erik Haula new OA: 81 diff: -1
BOS Brad Marchand new OA: 86 diff: +1
BOS Casey Mittelstadt new OA: 83 diff: -1
BOS Max Pacioretty new OA: 81 diff: -1
CAR Bobby Brink new OA: 81 diff: +1
CAR Yevgeni Dadonov new OA: 82 diff: +1
CAR Kent Johnson new OA: 83 diff: +2
CBJ Thomas Bordeleau new OA: 77 diff: -1
CBJ Mackie Samoskevich new OA: 79 diff: +1
CHI Matt Duchene new OA: 86 diff: +1
CHI Kaapo Kakko new OA: 82 diff: +2 (and PLY tag)
COL Matias Maccelli new OA: 82 diff: -1
DAL Mitch Marner new OA: 90 diff: +1
DAL Will Smith new OA: 80 diff: +1
DAL Tomas Tatar new OA: 79 diff: -1
DET Marat Khusnutdinov new OA: 78 diff: +1
EDM Ryan Nugent-Hopkins new OA: 84 diff: -1
LA Teuvo Teravainen new OA: 84 diff: +1
MTL Mathew Barzal new OA: 87 diff: -1
MTL Gustav Nyquist new OA: 82 diff: -1
MTL Joshua Roy new OA: 77 diff: -1
NSH Logan Cooley new OA: 84 diff: +1
NSH Mark Stone new OA: 86 diff: +1
NYI William Eklund new OA: 84 diff: +1
NYI Dylan Strome new OA: 87 diff: +1
NYR William Karlsson new OA: 83 diff: -1
NYR Shane Wright new OA: 81 diff: +2
OTT Kevin Hayes new OA: 80 diff: -1
OTT Vincent Trocheck new OA: 85 diff: -1
PHI Juuso Parssinen new OA: 79 diff: -1
PHI Marco Rossi new OA: 84 diff: +1
PIT John Peterka new OA: 84 diff: +1
SEA Jonatan Berggren new OA: 79 diff: +1
SJ Luke Evangelista new OA: 81 diff: -1
SJ Jonathan Huberdeau new OA: 84 diff: +1
STL Alexander Kerfoot new OA: 81 diff: -1
TB Kevin Fiala new OA: 85 diff: -1
TOR Jesper Bratt new OA: 89 diff: +1
TOR Barrett Hayton new OA: 82 diff: +1
VGK Emil Bemstrom new OA: 77 diff: -1
VGK Gabriel Vilardi new OA: 85 diff: +2
WSH Philipp Kurashev new OA: 80 diff: -2

Forwards (GRN)

WPG Elmer Soderblom new OA: 77 diff: +1
CGY Tyson Kozak new OA: 75 diff: +1
CHI Trent Frederic new OA: 82 diff: -1
CHI Martin Pospisil new OA: 81 diff: +1
COL Zach Aston-Reese new OA: 79 diff: +1
COL Marc McLaughlin new OA: 76 diff: +1
COL Landon Slaggert new OA: 76 diff: +1
DAL Frederick Gaudreau new OA: 82 diff: +1
DAL Axel Jonsson-Fjallby new OA: 76 diff: -2
DET Parker Kelly new OA: 79 diff: +1
DET Mitchell Stephens new OA: 77 diff: +1
FLA Gage Goncalves new OA: 77 diff: +2
FLA Zachary L'Heureux new OA: 78 diff: +1
FLA Corey Perry new OA: 81 diff: +1
MIN Ryan Winterton new OA: 75 diff: +1
MTL Jacob Quillan new OA: 73 diff: +1
NJ Rodrigo Abols new OA: 75 diff: +1
NJ Samuel Helenius new OA: 76 diff: +1
NSH Jack Finley new OA: 74 diff: +1
NSH Carl Grundstrom new OA: 79 diff: -1
NYI Mikael Pyyhtia new OA: 78 diff: +1
NYR Oskar Back new OA: 78 diff: +1
NYR Mitchell Chaffee new OA: 80 diff: +1
NYR Dylan Duke new OA: 74 diff: +3
NYR Ryan McLeod new OA: 83 diff: +1
OTT Matthew Poitras new OA: 80 diff: +1
PIT Arshdeep Bains new OA: 76 diff: +1
PIT Paul Cotter new OA: 81 diff: +1
PIT Ben Jones new OA: 75 diff: +1
SEA Devin Shore new OA: 77 diff: +1
TB Brett Howden new OA: 82 diff: +1
UFA Justin Dowling new OA: 77 diff: +1
UFA Rafael Harvey-Pinard new OA: 78 diff: -1
UFA Calle Jarnkrok new OA: 80 diff: -1
UFA Michael Milne new OA: 74 diff: +1
VAN Noah Cates new OA: 82 diff: +1
VAN Dakota Joshua new OA: 81 diff: -1
VAN Kiefer Sherwood new OA: 82 diff: +1

Forwards (ENF)

SJ Matt Rempe new OA: 78 diff: +1
TB Ryan Lomberg new OA: 79 diff: -1
WSH Bokondji Imama new OA: 75 diff: +1
WSH Austin Watson new OA: 78 diff: -1

Forwards (DNG)

CAR Jonathan Lekkerimaki new OA: 77 diff: +1
LA Jesper Boqvist new OA: 80 diff: +2
OTT Jackson Blake new OA: 79 diff: +1
SEA Nikita Chibrikov new OA: 77 diff: +1
TOR Jakub Vrana new OA: 79 diff: +1

Dmen (DD)

BOS Parker Wotherspoon new OA: 79 diff: +1
CAR Nolan Allan new OA: 77 diff: +1
DET Alexander Romanov new OA: 83 diff: +1
EDM Kyle Burroughs new OA: 78 diff: -1
EDM Emil Lilleberg new OA: 80 diff: +1
FLA Braden Schneider new OA: 81 diff: +1
FLA Jack St. Ivany new OA: 77 diff: +1
MIN Lian Bichsel new OA: 77 diff: +1
MIN Ty Emberson new OA: 79 diff: +1
MTL Nikolas Matinpalo new OA: 75 diff: +2
NJ Drew Helleson new OA: 77 diff: +1
NSH Ryan Suter new OA: 81 diff: +1
NYI Mario Ferraro new OA: 83 diff: -1
NYI Elias D. Pettersson new OA: 74 diff: +3
OTT Darnell Nurse new OA: 84 diff: -1 (and DD Tag)
PIT Alexandre Carrier new OA: 82 diff: +1 (and DD Tag)
SEA Tyler Myers new OA: 83 diff: +1
SEA Jacob Trouba new OA: 83 diff: -1
STL Jacob Middleton new OA: 85 diff: +1
STL Keaton Middleton new OA: 76 diff: +1
TB Ryan Graves new OA: 80 diff: -1
VAN Mathew Dumba new OA: 80 diff: -1
VAN Derek Forbort new OA: 79 diff: +1
WPG Kevin Bahl new OA: 82 diff: +1
WPG Isaak Phillips new OA: 77 diff: -1 (and DD Tag)
WSH Maveric Lamoureux new OA: 77 diff: +1

Dmen (PM)

BUF Philippe Myers new OA: 77 diff: +1
CGY Denton Mateychuk new OA: 76 diff: +3
CGY Jack Thompson new OA: 78 diff: +1
CGY Henry Thrun new OA: 80 diff: +1
CHI Noah Hanifin new OA: 85 diff: -1
CHI Logan Mailloux new OA: 77 diff: +1
EDM T.J. Brodie new OA: 79 diff: -2
EDM Dennis Cholowski new OA: 78 diff: +1
FLA Matt Grzelcyk new OA: 83 diff: +1
MIN Declan Chisholm new OA: 79 diff: +1
MTL Sebastian D. Aho new OA: 77 diff: -1
NJ Uvis Balinskis new OA: 80 diff: +1
NSH Jake Sanderson new OA: 86 diff: +1
NYI K'Andre Miller new OA: 83 diff: -1
NYR Albert Johansson new OA: 77 diff: +1
NYR Michael Kesselring new OA: 82 diff: +1 (and PM tag)
OTT Ben Hutton new OA: 77 diff: -1
PHI Emil Andrae new OA: 78 diff: +1
PIT Ethan Bear new OA: 77 diff: -1
PIT Simon Edvinsson new OA: 81 diff: +1
SEA Mason Lohrei new OA: 81 diff: +1
SEA Owen Pickering new OA: 77 diff: +1
STL Brett Kulak new OA: 81 diff: +1
TB Nick Blankenburg new OA: 78 diff: +1
TB Declan Carlile new OA: 75 diff: +1
TOR Aaron Ekblad new OA: 85 diff: +1
TB Donovan Sebrango new OA: 74 diff: +2
PHI Dante Fabbro new OA: 81 diff: +1
VGK Jordan Oesterle new OA: 78 diff: +1
VGK Juuso Valimaki new OA: 79 (PM tag)
VGK Sean Walker new OA: 80 diff: -1

Dmen (OD)

BOS Charlie McAvoy new OA: 86 diff: -1
BUF Timothy Liljegren new OA: 80 diff: -1
BUF Morgan Rielly new OA: 85 diff: -1
CAR Simon Nemec new OA: 78 diff: -1
CAR Mikhail Sergachev new OA: 87 diff: +1
CHI Kris Letang new OA: 85 diff: -1
COL Brent Burns new OA: 82 diff: -1
DAL Erik Karlsson new OA: 86 diff: +1
DET Miro Heiskanen new OA: 86 diff: -1
FLA Zach Werenski new OA: 90 diff: +1
MIN Erik Gustafsson new OA: 80 diff: -1
MIN Thomas Harley new OA: 85 diff: +1
MTL Lane Hutson new OA: 84 diff: +2
NSH Neal Pionk new OA: 85 diff: +1
NYI Rasmus Dahlin new OA: 89 diff: +1
NYI Jackson Lacombe new OA: 81 diff: +1
OTT Shea Theodore new OA: 88 diff: +1
PHI Jakob Chychrun new OA: 86 diff: +1
PHI Gustav Forsling new OA: 84 diff: -1
PIT Cale Makar new OA: 92 diff: +1
SJ Roman Josi new OA: 89 diff: -1
STL Moritz Seider new OA: 86 diff: +1
VGK Bowen Byram new OA: 84 diff: +1
WSH Noah Dobson new OA: 86 diff: -1

Goalies

BUF Ivan Fedotov new OA: 73 diff: +1
CAR MacKenzie Blackwood new OA: 82 diff: +2
CAR Eric Comrie new OA: 74 diff: +1
COL Leevi Merilainen new OA: 72 diff: +4
DAL Samuel Ersson new OA: 80 diff: +1
DET Alexandar Georgiev new OA: 83 diff: -2
DET Marcus Hogberg new OA: 71 diff: +1
DET Spencer Knight new OA: 79 diff: +1
EDM Tristan Jarry new OA: 83 diff: -1
LA Dustin Wolf new OA: 80 diff: +2
MTL Jakub Dobes new OA: 70 diff: +3
MTL Devon Levi new OA: 75 diff: -1
NSH Calvin Pickard new OA: 76 diff: +1
NYI Joel Blomqvist new OA: 72 diff: +1
NYI Juuse Saros new OA: 92 diff: -1
SEA Arvid Soderblom new OA: 76 diff: +1
SJ Joseph Woll new OA: 80 diff: +2
TB Joey Daccord new OA: 83 diff: +2
VAN Kevin Lankinen new OA: 80 diff: +2
WSH Vitek Vanecek new OA: 79 diff: -2

Hey Vojghi

A member of our league created these.

Feel free to use them in your next update.

Cheers

-Sergio

It works perfectly for me yes

Vojghi assigns a unique ID to all players. He is the player ID guardian