We start with the 05-06 season and the 26-27 season. i chose 26-27 because its the first season with all the orginal 6 teams. The 05-06 season regresses while the 26-27 season progresses.
When we are full we will have a 1 rd draft and pick one 05-06 franchise and from that franchise you get to take 6 keepers. The 6 keepers will be the standard 1c,1rw,1lw,2d and 1g. There will be a cap on these keepers at 28 million. Then the draft will start. The order will be reverse of the franchise draft for all 17 rounds. We will use a salary cap for keepers. We are going to use 45 mil because of the increase player pool. This will be set for the first season. It may need a slight adjustment after we see how it is working.
ADDED: Any player that was traded during the 05-06 season will be the property of the team that the player ends the year with. You then will have theoption of either of his stats(his former teams 05-06 stats or his current teams 05-06 stats).
ADDED: You are allowed to put one player on your I.R. The player must have not played 20 games that season. You will also have to use half of his previous salary against your keeper cap.You have to keep atleast one of every postion and 2 defencemen. Im going to cap goalie keepers at 2. There will be no final cap. Just the keeper one. Cap - Franchise - 28Mil Next season Keeper - 45Mil
EDIT*** Keeper cap bumped to $50million starting on 32-33/98-99 Draft yearsML - AverageMax Inj. - 4P.I. - offW.W - OffTrades - onVetos - 8
ADDED: The previous seasons presidents trophy winner will start the next years league.