After a minor hiccup, the Season 15 Entry Draft is complete. All rated, eligible players who were selected should now be on their respective team's roster. Everyone else is on their team's Property List. If it looks like I missed anyone in that process, let me know.
After a small hiccup, all players selected in tonight's Supplemental Draft should now be on their respective rosters. As such, the expansion teams are now stocked.
Next up is Monday's Entry Draft. Things will start moving more quickly from here.
With the expansion draft completed, the Trades Office is back open for all teams.
Next up is the Supplemental Draft on Wednesday night. If there are any questions about that, make sure to ask.
We're inside 48 hours until each team's protected list for the Expansion Draft is due so I wanted to give a bit of a status update.
All four drafts have been scheduled as per the previously-announced calendar. Obviously, those dates are all tentative because we've never expanded before and things could break and I might need time to fix things, but we'll adjust on the fly if we need to and run with that schedule for now.
Okay... Re-rates are re-done (again), both expansion teams have identities, and a bunch of bugs have been worked out on the site. It's time to move forward.
One thing left to resolve with regards to expansion is when the two new teams will pick in the Entry Draft. As previously mentioned, we voted on having them pick 2-3 in the second, third, and fourth rounds and it ended up at a 4-4 tie. The way I see it, if I vote no on that, we need to vote again or I need to dictate some other option. There has been some discussion of what those options might be in the expansion thread so swing over there if you want to propose something or give your thoughts.
Okay, after a third re-rate pass, we have the following players as rated but NSHL-ineligible:
I don't know why Shestyorkin is listed as Status Not Found but he's eligible so I'll be adding him back to Toronto's roster shortly. Romanov is the only other Status Not Found and he hasn't debuted yet so he's not eligible.
The second batch of re-rates has completed, so all players are now updated to reflect the 2019-20 season (or at least as much of it has been completed).
The following players are rated but not NSHL-eligible:
With Andrew having opted to take over the Nighthawks, he has officially been added as North Dakota's GM. Additionally, the Vancouver Killer Whales under the guidance of Tom Hotchkiss and the temporarily-named "Season Fifteen Expansion Team" owned by Albert have been added to the league. Welcome to all of our new members.
Okay, following up on my earlier post... The expansion vote has completed and the following scenario has passed:
Two items additional items ended up tied, requiring my vote as a tiebreaker. As such, beginning with Season 16, the number of seasons for which a skater is exempt from the waiver draft will drop from eight to six.
Voting on expansion is now closed and, short answer… We have voted to expand by two teams.
However - and unfortunately - there’s more to it than that.
I'll post more detail later.