NSHL Player Agent

NSHL Player Agent

The league's NSHL Player Agent is a role elected by league GMs prior to each off-season. This person is responsible for the player's side of negotiations and is expected to act in the player's best interest when handling negotiations.

When it comes to negotiating deals for the NSHLPA's team, the NSHL Player Agent for players involved becomes the Commissioner, followed by the VP if the Commissioner's team is also involved in negotiations for the same player.

The elected NSHL Player Agent for Season 8 is Eric 'The Goss' Gosselin, GM of the San Jose Sharks.

Contact the NSHL Player Agent at nshlpa@jaykashman.net or godbls7@hotmail.com (they both go to the same spot).

Signing a Free Agent

In order to sign a free agent, a team has to e-mail the NSHL Player Agent (NSHLPA) and include all of the information listed below. Any offer submitted to the NSHLPA that's missing mandatory information or for a player that is ineligible to be signed (for example, the player in question is a rookie and cannot be signed or worse, is already on another team's roster), the NSHLPA may ignore the e-mail altogether or may respond asking the team to re-submit a proper offer. Constant submissions of unacceptable offers can be held against the team and may force the league to take further action.

The information that's required to sign a free agent is:

• Player's Full Name
• Player's Age
• Player's Last NSHL Team / NHL Team
• Player's Last NSHL Salary (if applicable)
• The minimum acceptable salary allowed for the player's age / experience based on the CBA
• The salary and term being offered

The NSHL Player Agent will respond to all offers made as soon as they possibly can. Offers or questions about offers are not to be asked to the Player Agent in conversation on MSN Messenger unless the PA brings it up (out of respect).

Any questions about negotiations can be directed to the league at any time, either to the NSHL Commissioner (nshl@jaykashman.net) or the Vice President of League Operations (olostar@hotmail.com).

RFA Re-Negotiations

Below is a list of all the players that were able to re-negotiate new RFA deals during the negotiation window between the All-Star Classic and Trade Deadline.

All of the contracts listed below go into affect at the end of NSHL IX and come with temporary No Trade Clauses which prevent them from being dealt before the upcoming Trade Deadline.

Boston Bruins
Dmitri Afanasenkov - $1,600,000 / 3 years

Chicago Blackhawks
Carlo Colaiacovo - $1,850,000 / 1 year
Ilya Kovalchuk - $7,850,000 / 1 year

Colorado Avalanche
Kris Letang - $850,000 / 2 years

Los Angeles Kings
Nathan Paetsch - $1,900,000 / 4 years
Lee Stempniak - $3,500,000 / 4 years

New Jersey Devils
Tomas Popperle - $1,250,000 / 4 years
Ian White - $2,750,000 / 4 years

Pittsburgh Penguins
Sidney Crosby - $9,000,000 / 2 years
Kari Lehtonen - $6,000,000 / 4 years
Alexei Ponikarovsky - $3,700,000 / 2 years

San Jose Sharks
Bobby Allen - $700,000 / 3 years
Lasse Kukkonen - $1,850,000 / 4 years
Andrew Murray - $1,250,000 / 4 years

St. Louis Blues
Michael Ryder - $7,400,000 / 4 years

Toronto Maple Leafs
Cam Ward - $5,500,000 / 2 years

Franchise Player Tags

The following players have been named as their team's Franchise Players and therefore have No Movement Clauses attached to their contracts and no other player on the team can make more money than them until the next time the Franchise Player tag is used.

Calgary Flames
Jean-Sebastien Giguere

Chicago Blackhawks
Ryan Smyth

Los Angeles Kings
Chris Pronger

Philadelphia Flyers
Scott Niedermayer

San Jose Sharks
Marty Turco

St Louis Blues
Martin Brodeur