Quoting: NobodyCares
At that point I think it's gonna have to be scrutinized by you, the Moderator of this. I'm fine with someone trading for UFA rights and signing if they offer a fair amount. Example: If someone trades for Oshie and offers him 6.5 or more per year for 7 or 8 years i think its fair, but if someone trades for Oshies rights they don't automatically get to sign him to a lowball offer or that will ruin the game.
Yeah, i think if contract rights get traded, they can maybe sign the player as long as we agree that it's allowed for that amount of money (example: WSH trades Oshie rights to any team, and that team re-signs him for 2mil a year, we say no, it needs to be higher, but if they try to sign him for 6.5mil a year/7mil a year/etc, we say, yes you can do that). Also, maybe we can let GMs re-sign players if they make a huge offer (example: if WSH tried to re-sign Oshie for 8.5mil a year, we let them get away with it, as it's very unlikely anyone else is willing to do that).
Also, on UFA day, let's make offers for players, and any other GMs can offer more or say no. Or maybe we could add some players and ask teams if they're interested in signing the player, and if they are, we could play where one person makes an offer, and then another (if they are willing to offer more), and on and on until the player is signed.
Example on the last thing i said: Let's say Oshie makes it to free agent day without re-signing. Different GMs could decide if they want to try to sign him. So let's say NYI, CAR, DAL, CGY, and Vegas all decide they want Oshie. Let's say Vegas offers 4mil a year to start, then maybe the isles could maybe then offer 5mil a year, then carolina offers 5.5mil, dallas offers 6mil, Calgary offers 6.5mil, Vegas offers 6.75mil, NYI offers 7mil, Carolina says this is getting too high, Dallas offer 7.25mil, Calgary offers 7.5mil Vegas passes. So not it would be down to the isles, the stars, and the flames. So let's say NYI says they don't want to do it. Then Dallas offers 7.75mil a year, and then Calgary says no. Then Dallas signs Oshie for 7.75 million a year. The only problem here is how to decide how many years the player gets.