Rick Deckard
Registered User
This thread is mainly a question to Irish Blues and kdb209.
Irish Blues, you say on your homepage under the player cap page that Lasse Kukkonen will be a Group VI UFA, if he doesn't play 70 NHL games this season, otherwise he is a RFA.
According to the CBA a player has to be 25 or older, needs three professional seasons under a SPC and played less than 80 NHL games to qualify for Group VI UFAs.
As Kukkonen only played two seasons in North America (03-04, 06-07), why does he qualify for Group VI UFAs? Was he under contract with Chicago than he played for Oulu during the lockout?
Irish Blues, you say on your homepage under the player cap page that Lasse Kukkonen will be a Group VI UFA, if he doesn't play 70 NHL games this season, otherwise he is a RFA.
According to the CBA a player has to be 25 or older, needs three professional seasons under a SPC and played less than 80 NHL games to qualify for Group VI UFAs.
(c) Group 6 Free Agents.
(i) Means any Player who is age 25 or older who has completed three (3) or more professional seasons, whose SPC has expired and: (i) in the case of a Player other than a goaltender, has played less than 80 NHL Games, or (ii) in the case of a goaltender, has played less than 28 NHL Games (for the purpose of this definition, a goaltender must have played a minimum of thirty (30) minutes in an NHL Game to register a game played). For the purposes of the foregoing, the term professional season shall: (A) for a Player aged 18 or 19, mean any season in which such Player plays in eleven (11) or more Professional Games (including NHL Regular Season and Playoff Games, minor league regular season and playoff games, and games played in any European professional league, while under an SPC), and (B) for a Player aged 20 or older, mean any season in which such Player plays in one or more Professional Games (including NHL Regular Season and Playoff Games, minor league regular season and playoff games, and games played in any European professional league, while under an SPC).
As Kukkonen only played two seasons in North America (03-04, 06-07), why does he qualify for Group VI UFAs? Was he under contract with Chicago than he played for Oulu during the lockout?