Price does not wish to negociate a new contract?

[Samperino]

Hi guys,

I'm currently playing with the habs, and a bunch of players (Price, Beaulieu, Eller, etc) do not want to sign again. For exemple, Price is asking for 15M a year, that's way too much.

Is that a bug or something ?

Thanks

[batdad]

No clue. So many reasons. My guess..they hate speaking French?

[cstorring]

This happened to me, too, in my most recent Flames season. Monahan and Gaudreau would not sign because they 'didn't think the team could meet their needs'.

Couldn't get Monahan to sign even by offering $9M/year.

To test it out, I eventually offered Gaudreau the max $15M I was allowed and of course he graciously accepted.

Ended up signing Monahan for $3.6M after July 1, so just one of those strange things. Similar thing would happen in 2007 I reckon in some cases where you just couldn't sign a guy, then after he became a FA he'd sign for a reasonable amount.

Dunno what the deal with it is, but one would think they'd be thrilled to stay playing on the first line and leading the team in scoring.

[stone169]

If they're a RFA, just qualify them if they don't want to sign and then you can sign them after July 1st. If they're a UFA, then it's a bit of different story. I've found that sometimes the initial offer that comes up is what the UFAs will accept.

[Samperino]

Price still doesn't want to sign with me when he's UFA.

Is there any tools I could use to edit a player's salary ? I could try to manually change Price's salary to a more realistic one.

[stone169]

Did you check his "Information"? It's possible that he doesn't like you. I had that problem with Patrick Wiercioch. He didn't like when he was a RFA, but had no choice but to sign with me and he didn't like when he was becoming a UFA so I traded him while he still had value.

[batdad]

WHat do you have his role set at? With a guy like Price, unless a KEY player, he will have no interest. Is Board allowing you enough to sign him? Check what Price is asking, and if it is higher than $ available, board will not authorize contract. You may need to ask board for bigger budget. Also as stone said above is an issue at times.

Add in an NTC as well. If he had one before will not sign without it.

[Samperino]

He was a key player for the team. I even proposed him the 15M + NTC he asked and he still refused it.

[batdad]

Good for him. Clearly wants a new challenge, and guess he will get it. Or of course you could cheat and edit the contract like you are asking how to do in another thread.

[Samperino]

I don't consider this cheating at all. Don't you think it's a bit unrealistic that some players are asking so much that no team in the NHL can afford them ?

And do you know how to modify the contracts ?

[Peter_Doherty]

Maybe he just doesn't like what you've done to the team and want's a change of scenery? Players forcing themselves off a team isn't unrealistic, the unrealistic part is if he doesn't sign with another team.

[Samperino]

The only major change I made was releasing Plekanec... maybe he didn't like that

I just think it's strange that he wants to change team when we won the Stanley Cup last year

[stone169]

The only major change I made was releasing Plekanec... maybe he didn't like that

I just think it's strange that he wants to change team when we won the Stanley Cup last year

That could've done it. Sometimes certain players have other players listed as favourite teammates and maybe Plekanec was a favourite teammate of Price and you upset him by letting him go.

[Samperino]

That could've done it. Sometimes certain players have other players listed as favourite teammates and maybe Plekanec was a favourite teammate of Price and you upset him by letting him go.

Plekanec wasn't listed in his favourite staff. Is it still possible that Price left because of this ?

[batdad]

Anything is possible...

[CeeBee]

I've had players on rare occasions ask to be traded because they wanted a bigger challenge. Happened after winning a cup or 2 in a row. Guess that is a possibility as well.

[Samperino]

I offered him a tryout and he accepted. In his "information" it says he's happy to stay with the team and then he refuses a 15M contract...

[helpie]

Looks like contract demands/negotiations needs some more work, some players asking too short and low contracts, some players demanding too high salaries.

[batdad]

Yes it is kind of a known issue with the game. I have been having some fun with Samperino. 15 mill is a big ask. But really, I would just not bother worrying about Price and let someone else take over the crease.

And yeah, the contracts are somehwat low in some cases in terms of years they will sign for. That is a difficult thing to code into AI the way the contracts work now with the ramping and starting at different values for a couple years then going up over a 7-9 year period. But also remember, that the NHL has basically totally banned the back diving contract thankfully.

Is some work to do for Riz in contract area, and if you do not believe they are aware enough at SI...should post about it with more than just one example on their site as well.

[stone169]

With Ottawa I managed to sign Karlsson to a 5 year extension @ $9 million per season. 3 Norris trophies and 2 Stanley Cups, I'd say he was worth it.