Rules: 
Teams/Rosters: 
It is the GM's sworn duty of the NAHL to maintain their respective teams. This means resubmitting lines as injuries, trades 
and suspensions can occur. Remember the following rules with respect to your teams: 
The Pro Roster must contain a minimum of 20 Players and a Maximum of 25. 
The Farm Roster must carry no more than 25 players. 
The  Salary cap is set at $40,000,000 (This is set by having ALL players on your Pro Roster. This will give you your Salary Cap)
You will have a maximum of 24 hours to make the necessary changes to meet the above noted conditions or face fines 
of $1,000,000 per day until the correction made.
Salary Cap, Player Caps:
On top of the 40 million salary cap imposed as part of the Financial Agreement, there is also a hard cap on player salaries:
-		Rookies, and all players between the ages of 18 and 19 (inclusive) can earn a maximum salary of 1 million dollars, 
-		- Restricted Free Agents (Ages 20 to 29 inclusive) can earn a maximum salary of 5.00 million dollars.
- Unrestricted Free Agents (Ages 30 and above) can earn a maximum salary of 10.00 million 
Player Ratings:
IJ - Injury Status
DD: Day to Day 
1W: injured 1 to 2 weeks 
3W: injured 2 to 4 weeks 
1M: injured 4 to 6 weeks
3M: injured 2 to 4 months
S#: (suspended for # of games) 
Stats:
HD - Stick Hand 
IT - Intensity 
SP - Speed 
ST - Strength 
EN - Endurance 
DU - Durability 
DI - Discipline 
SK - Skating 
PA - Passing 
PC - Puck Control 
DF - Defense 
SC - Scoring 
EX - Experience 
LD - Leadership 
OV - Overall 
Things to Remember: 
First off NAHL is in no way the NHL. Although players have NHL names, the numbers 
They put up in the NAHL are not the same? We also have players from other hockey 
leagues. Some better than NHL players. Like we have said before.
WE ARE IN NO WAY THE NHL.
Things that are done during and after the season
During Season
1) You can send players down to the farm team
2) You may make trades until the trading deadline
3) You may control who will be your goalie
4) Set your own roster
Year End
At the year end the following events occur
1) Player Awards (MVPs and accomplishment awards)
2) Player stats are updated
3) Play-off MVP handed out
Off-season
During the off season you may:
1) Take part in the Entry Draft
2) Sign your own players
3) Sign free agents
4) Vote on league mandates
5) Trade players
6) Change ticket prices
8) Move your team
9) Hire a head coach
GM Responsibilities: 
Besides the weekly responsibilities of taking care of the team via lines, trades, etc. GM's have some general responsibility
 to help maintain the well balance of the league. 
Please respond to all trade offers within 24 hours which includes confirming the deals. 
Vote on league issues when required. 
Participate in the drafts or submit lists. 
Although not a requirement - Try to submit PR's via the E-mail on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, this kind of participation keeps 
the league fresh and hopefully keeps in entertaining. We try to promote a good interactive league. 
If you are going to be away for an extended period of 3 days or more, please notify league via email. 
Salary/Finances: 
Each Team will begin with a $60,000,000 operating budget. 
Each GM will be responsible for naming its arena, determining arena size as well as setting their average ticket 
price. For realism purposes, arena size will start at 16,000 for the inaugural season. From there you may expand 
in the off season at 5 million per 1,000 seats. There will be a max of 20,000 seats for all arenas. 
There will be a team imposed salary cap of $40,000,000. The cap willonly with a league wide vote. 
team must be under the salary cap by prior to the first game of the season. If a team is over the cap, an automatic daily 
$3,000,000 fine is levied and a player(s) removed (waived) from the team. GM’s will have 24 hrs to correct the situation, 
or the league will step in. 
Rookie GM protection rule:
Rookie GMs fall into a special category. We realize the NAHL is complicated and that several veterans will try to take 
advantage of the lack of knowledge from new GMs. Any trade deemed unfair by the league will be rejected. Furthermore, 
All trades reject by league due to a veteran GM trying to take advantage of a rookie GM in a trade were the veteran GM 
clearly has an advantage will be fined 10 million dollars. This fine will double for every offense during the season.
Trades: 
Players can be traded left and right. You can trade just about anything. A trade becomes official when the commissioner 
receives a confirmation email from BOTH involved parties. An answer is expected within 24 hours of each other or the trade 
is off. Confirmed trades are to be sent to the commissioner privately and not through ICQ or AOL
Trades will only be finalized once the trade office receives an email confirmation from both teams involved. The following 
format should be used when confirming a deal: 
To Devils: Mike Comrie, Tommy Salo & EDM 2nd 2002 
To Oilers: Martin Brodeur 
The Trade Office will review all trades for fairness. The Trade office has the authority to rescind all deals. Reasons for a trade
 being rescinded are: 
1) The deal will put one team over the team imposed salary cap 2) The deal is grossly one sided 3) Trade Confirmation is not 
received from both parties with 72 hours 4) No future considerations
NOTE, all cash transactions will be strictly monitored to ensure teams do not go into bankruptcy. 
All trades involving a players acquired in a previous trade that has not been approved by the league will result in a fine of 2 
million dollars per player. If this player begins a snowball of rejected trades the offending team will receive a fine of 2 million 
dollars per trade denied due to that player.
When a trade is rescinded for fairness both teams will receive the following email message: Using the above deal 
as an example, 
The following deal, (below) has been rejected by the trade office as it is deemed to be unfair to the Oilers. 
To Devils: Mike Comrie, Tommy Salo & EDM 2nd 2002 
To Oilers: Martin Brodeur 
Suggested revision: 
To Devils: Mike Comrie, Tommy Salo & EDM 5th 2002 
To Oilers: Martin Brodeur & NJD 1st 2002 
Trade Office, 
All trades offers should be responded to within 48 hours. If a GM knows he/she will be away for an extended period of time, 
an email should be sent to the commissioner indicating when (date to & date from) you will be away. 
After the trade the teams may sign there new players to an extension up to 4 years as if signing a free agent.
(Example Team A trade John Doe to Team B for Jim Smith. Both players have 2 years left on there contracts. The new teams may sign them for another two years or leave the contract as Is. It’s the teams choice.
Free Agency: 
All teams have 7 days after the entry draft to make a qualifying offer to there 
RFA if not made in that 4 days the player becomes a UFA
Free agency period
The "free agent Signings" A period of 24 hours will be allowed to beat or match contracts. If no one beats the highest offer 
within 24 hours, then the player is signed to the team with the highest offer. . Every bid must beat the previous Determined by the league officials.Rulling of the league Is Final.
DEFINITION OF 24 HOURS: The time a Gm sent the mail.
You can only have a maximum of 4 bids pending at any one time on any class of free agent. This will prevent who ever is in 
charge from getting emails with 32 offers. So if you offer a player a contract, make damn sure you want him. Example: Toronto 
has an offer pending on Probert,Ciccarelli, Chelios and Yashin, then he can't offer a deal to Yzerman until one of his offers signs 
or is beaten.
The league ( being me ) and/or the free agent referee can eliminate any idiotic bids at their discression. That means, 
don’t offer Steve Yzerman 4/100. You new Gm's are probably laughing, but inevitably happens every year.
A bid for a player must be at least 85% of his previous contract. NO FRONT LOADING Contracts (no 800,000 contracts with 8,000,000 signing bonus when the player made 5,000,000 the season before)
If a bid would break a GM's salary cap (salary cap being signed players minus free agents), then the bid is rejected.
All players under the age of 31 and in the final year of their contract will be considered restricted free agents. There will be two 
groups of restricted free agents. 
RF1 players between the age of 19 & 25. No other team can negotiate this players contract or make another offer. All players 
within this age group may be pre-signed by their existing club anytime during the final year of their contract, IE., player has 
only 1 year remaining. The maximum salary increase will 150% of current contract (current contract + 50% raise) 
So, if you have any RF1 you want to presign please follow the following process. Teams have until the end of the regular season to presign these players. If they are not presigned by the end of the season they will test the free agent market as 
either RFA's or UFA's if they are not offered a 10% qualifying offer (only in the summer - not accepting qualifying offers now!!)
In the subject line provide us with your teams name, the player's name, age, current salary and your offer in terms of % and 
the number of years up to a maximum of 4. 
The minimum raise a player can get is 10% and the maximum as mentioned above is 50%. If your offer is too low, the league 
will make a counter proposal.
Please using the following format as it will make it easier for me when reviewing the offers.
Subject: Razors RFA presigning
Player - Pierre Dagenais, 23, 500,000, 10%, 4 yrs - (500,000*10%=550,000)
Please Note - These presignings will not be processed into the sim until the summer. All presigned players, their  new salary and salary length will be kept on a separate spreadsheet. 
RF2 players between the age of 26 & Older 
Players within this age group are normally in the prime of their career and may seek significant raises. Teams may only pre-sign 
these players at the end of the current NAHL season. Negotiations will be much tougher, players may request a maximum of 
250% raise (current salary + 150%). Teams must make the player a minimum 10% qualifying offer in order to retain the right 
to match 
Rates for pre-signing RF2 (players 26 & Older yrs) players - raise % = 100% = player doubles salary, 50% = players current 
salary + 1/2 current salary.
Overall Player Ratings Raise
85+ 100%
80-84 90%
75-79 75%
70-74 50%
65-69 35%
60-64 20%
>59 10%
If no qualifying offer is made the player then becomes a UFA. 
RFA Free Agent process: 
1. Qualifying offers: A 110% qualifying offer must be made the team  to retain their RFA status  If a player is not offered 
a qualifying offer, that player regardless of age becomes a UFA and enters the UFA process. When a player is an RFA the 
team that holds his rights has the right to either match the highest offer or receive compensation. (See Compensation section.)
2. Loyalty Contracts Each team has the right to sign one player to a "Loyalty Contract". A Loyalty Contract is for a player 
normally over 26 years of age that the team wants to show they want him around. A Minimum of 20% must be offered to this 
player and a Minimum of 4 Year contract must also be offered. This shows the Player that he is more than wanted by his team.
NO OTHER TEAM may sign these players. making an offer is useless.
(Example  Bob Black 27 played for New York. NY wants his contract resigned they offer him a 20% raise for 4 yrs and add 
a 3 Million dollar signing bonus. Bob takes the offer and signs as a Loyalty Contract. San Diego's offer is scrapped.
3.  Entry Draft: There will be a 3 round draft. Draft order will be determined by regular season finishing order. 
How to generate a successful franchise.
Needless to say, winning is the key. It will determine everything.
Unassigned Players
Each season players are released due to many factors. Age, Contracts or just ratings. These players are under the unassigned players list. These players can be signed any team. Under these guide lines 
1.A player can be signed for his last Contract before being released. If he is signed before the Entry draft/Free agent time period is over. 
2.If a player has been on the list for the entire length of the Preseason/Free Agent Signings/Entry Draft  and no team has bid on him he can be signed for a League min. as follows
60-70 Rating  700,000
70-77 Rating 900,000
78-90 Rating 1,000,000
91-100 Rating  1,500,000
Once a player is being offered this contract he is under the same Free Agent Rules as the rest of the league . Meaning the highest bidder gets him.(Example Texas goes after John Smith a 78 they make an offer of 1,000,000 and look to sign him. Montreal wants him also and they make a bid of 1,050,000 for him they would get him unless Texas made a counter offer or unless another team did not make another higher bid.

Arenas:
A franchise begins with a brand new 16,000 seat arena. Seats can be added 
at a cost of 5 million for 1000. An arena can have a maximum of 20,000 seats. 
Seating prices:
You can charge what ever you want for seats to a maximum of 45$
The Farm Team:
The (CHA) Continental Hockey Association will be the farm league to the NAHL. Every NAHL team will have a CHA team. 
Each NAHL team can send down players to its CHA team for development.
Another season ends, another begins, and here is what happens at seasons end.
Moving:
I have no problem with moving and changing. However, you play your first game you are stuck there till the end of the season. 
Moving will have its cost.
Moving from city: 5 Million
Change of name and logo: 3 Million
A team may in debt themselves by moving. Owners that acquire a team in mid season may move a franchise for free after the present season but before the next season. After the first exhibition game, it is too late.
A new Franchise owner may move the team one time with no franchise moving fees.(Jim becomes the new owner of team A and wants them in Kansas City he is not charged for doing so. After two seasons he wants to move to Columbus then he would be charge the transfer fee.)
Expansion draft:
Players must be protected for the expansion draft. The formula changes every year. The Commish will inform you of the formula of protection.
Entry Draft:
The NAHL has two Minor Leagues that are available for  prospects. You must choose from these leagues.
The draft order is from worse to best team (Check Overall Standings for your Rankings)
Rookie cap:
There will be a Rookie cap enforced. We understand that a rookie is an unproven player, that is why a max of one million dollars we be enforced for rookies.
The following applies:
18 year old rookies can sign for there team for a max of two years, after their 20th birthday they then can sign for the 1-4 years 
like other players. After their 20th birthday the cap no longer applies.
19 year old rookies can sign for there team for a max of one year, after their 20th birthday they then can sign for the 1-4 years
 like other players. After their 20th birthday the cap no longer applies.
Example: Motor City picks 
B.J. Kilborne 18 C 60 62 35 36 25 74 62 59 56 64 52 50 47 59
Motor City can only sign him to a two year deal
Motor city signs two year 300k 
The Summer B.J. turns 20 Motor City offers a 3 year 500k contract
Debt:
If a team finishes in debt at the end of the season, they will loose entry draft rounds.
The penalty will result as follows:
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Debt Round lost
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under 1 million no effect
over 1 million 3rd round
over 5 million 2nd round
over 10 million 1st round