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Rookie Qualifications

To be considered a rookie, a player must not have played in more than 25 NHL games in any preceding seasons, nor in six or more NHL games in each of any two preceding seasons. Any player at least 26 years of age (by September 15th of that season) is not considered a rookie.

Up to 3 keeper players can be kept at the end of the year who qualify as ‘rookie/sophomore' status

Weighted lottery

Keeper Rules Update:

Not sure if many of you realize, but five (5) Keeper players is not actually that much. From the league that was played last year, going by O-Rank, if everyone had kept 5 players from there team, some of the notable first round draft picks would be Heatley, Nash, Sharp, Lidstrom, etc. So 5 isn't really all that bad, there is still good talent out there. Now, onto the fun stuff!

Pro Keeper rules: everyone needs to select a mandatory 5 Pro Keeper players each year. A Pro Keeper player is simply a player which you would like to retain for the following season, with no restrictions or limitations regarding age, years of service in the NHL, or position. What this means is that the 1st – 5th round draft picks in every following year will be invalid as trade items, simply because the first 5 rounds will be used to assign Pro Keeper players. If you trade a 1st – 5th round draft pick, we will veto the trade during the year.

Note: These players can be selected up to one (1) week before the Draft of the following year. This allows you enough time to determine whether it's worth keeping certain players over others due to trades/signings/running away to Russia/etc.

FreeKeeper Rules: We would like to introduce a FreeKeeper system as well, where you can keep anywhere from 0 – 10 Keepers who are at the Rookie level. For our league purposes, a Rookie is