Tuesday at NOON ET, I will begin to accept bids on coaches.

On the message board, i created many coaches. All NHL Head coaches available, all AHL head coaches available, and selected "names" that are available (NHL guys start on page 2 of the FREE AGENT COACHES sub forum.

There is a special thread for other coach. So if you find some one who coached,head or assistant, somewhere (please check) in AHL or NHL last year (like a AHL assistant coach), who I didnt list and is not under contract in BRHL2 (please check), bid in there, and then I will make a new thread.

Below are the rules.

---NOTE: i see i had conflicting information in the General Rules section and the FA section regarding what makes a bid the leader when changing from Minor to PRO....We will use the rule from the FA section listed below.

-During Free Agency, no NHL head coach (not interim) that finished the season can be bid on for a MINOR job.

- NHL/AHL Assistants and AHL head coaches are free for bidding for both PRO and Minor jobs as before.

-Maximum of years to be signed as a FA will be set at 3 years.

 

-Minimum salary to be set at $400K a year for a PRO coach

-Minimum salary to be set at $250k a year for a MINOR coach.

-Minimum salary requirement to be grandfathered and to be effective with new FA signings or contract extensions.

 

Free Agent Rules

-Bidding is done on the message board (I don’t get the fancy website LOL)

-48 hour process like players FA

-Only coaches with Ratings (ie actually coaches in NHL or AHL last year) is eligible to bid on during the FA process (INDEX currently has ratings for some coaches who do NOT qualify (like Patrick Roy).

-There is no loyalty bonus

-There is no term bonus

-For a coach to receive a MINOR offer, they must be MINOR eligible (Meaning they did not finish last NHL season a full time head coach)

-Initial bids must meet minimum coaching salaries per level and be for 3 or less years.

-Bid increments must be at least $150K until bid is over $999k, then the bids must be in increments of least $200k.

-All bids must meet appropriate $ increase regardless if the bid is changing from Minor offer to Pro Offer.

-Once a Pro Bid is made on a coach, only PRO bids will be accepted from that point on

--No signing bonus may be used

 

Example of FA process.

 

Team A makes Coach 1 a Minor offer for 800k. Team B takes lead with a Minor Bid of 900K for the coach. Team A regains lead with 1.05M bill (still 150k increment) for Minor Coach. Team B comes back with $1.25M (bid is now at least 200k increments) for PRO coach. At this point, the next bid must be: a) at least 1.5M and B) must a pro offer.