This is a five season franchise progressive league. Only join if you're going to play all five seasons.

RULE UPDATE: The salary cap is $120M

Select your exclusive franchise and build your team with player seasons from your franchise.

Draft 9 forwards, 4 defensemen and 2 goalies from your franchise. For example: your team is Toronto, you can draft any Toronto player and start his 1st season anytime in his career. If Toronto drafts Darryl Sittler, you can start season one with his rookie season or 2nd or 3rd season etc. But you must use his seasons consecutively. You don't have to use all 5 seasons for a player but you probably want players with that many. If one of your original 15 doesn't have 5 consecutive seasons with your team, say he is traded in real life or retires, you must drop him.

Darryl Sittler
Season ONE: 72-73
Season TWO 73-74
Season THREE 74-75
Season FOUR 75-76
Season FIVE 76-77

You can keep Sittler for all 5 seasons. If you drop him, he is blacklisted from future drafts.

IMPORTANT: There is only one time a franchise player can be used by more than one franchise. That's in the original 15. So Sittler can be an original 15 player for Toronto and an original 15 player for Philadelphia. All future drafts, Sittler would not be available, example: his Detroit seasons would not be available.

If a player is WIS ineligible for a season after season one, you can put him on IR. Bring him back to your roster when he is WIS eligible.

So all teams will need 8 more players to fill their teams.
EDIT: Draft for the 8 players to fill rosters will be in reverse order of franchises selected. Not a snake draft.
The players available in this draft will be players not listed on any of the exclusive rosters. They can be from any NHL team.

Once these players are dropped, they are then blacklisted.

Example of a franchise player in this progressive...

Players who played with more than one franchise can be drafted by each franchise. Example: Wayne Gretzky can be drafted by Edmonton, Los Angeles, St. Louis and New York Rangers. So if Gretzky is drafted by Edm, L.A. and the NYR franchises but the St. Louis franchise doesn't draft Gretzky, then his St. Louis season won't be available in future drafts as he was on at least one original 15 roster.

After each season, owners will post their cuts. Then a draft set in reverse order of the previous seasons standings will take place.

Any players can be traded. Just make sure you don't trade for a clone.

No to WW, AAA and clones. No cap. We will go directly from 2003-04 to 05-06 because of the lock-out.

The first draft of 8 players, you can draft from ANY franchise as long as they are not a clone and keep them as long as you want.

Season 2 through 5 drafts, also draft from any team but no clones to be drafted.

Rule Clarification: The original 15 players chosen for your franchise- all seasons for these players must be from your franchise.

Any players drafted in the 8 round draft that happen to be from your franchise can be kept even if they join a real life different franchise.

Theme Name: 5 Season Exclusive Franchise Progressive

Founder: hockeyhead

Description: rules go here...

Salary Cap: $120,000,000

Options: Waiver Wire not allowed, League Number is hidden, Minor League Players allowed, Below Average Minor League Players, Max of 8 Players Out Per Team, Not using Playoff Intensity, Relaxed Roster Requirements, Player Trades allowed, 8 votes required to veto a trade, Allow Ties-No Shootout

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Franchises

Montreal Canadiens
Toronto Maple Leafs
Detroit Red Wings
Chicago BlackHawks
Boston Bruins
New York Rangers
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins
St. Louis Blues
Los Angeles Kings
Minnesota North Stars-Dallas Stars (includes California Seals and Cleveland Barons)
Vancouver Canucks
Buffalo Sabres
New York Islanders
Atlanta Flames-Calgary Flames
Washington Capitals
Kansas City Scouts-Colorado Rockies-New Jersey Devils
Edmonton Oilers
Quebec Nordiques-Colorado Avalanche
Winnipeg Jets-Phoenix Coyotes
Hartford Whalers-Carolina Hurricanes
Tampa Bay Lightning
Ottawa Senators (new)
San Jose Sharks
Florida Panthers
Anaheim Ducks
Minnesota Wild
Columbus Blue Jackets
Nashville Predators
Atlanta Thrashers-Winnipeg Jets

Defunct Franchises
New York Americans-Brooklyn Americans 1925-42
Montreal Maroons 1924-38
Ottawa Senators-St. Louis Eagles 1917-34
Quebec BullDogs-Hamilton Tigers 1919-25
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Owners Franchises

1. hockeyhead San Jose Sharks
2. taybaijor Montreal Canadiens
3. bradpark22 Quebec Nordiques-Colorado Avalanche
4. poddy Philadelphia Flyers
5. sakabakbrg Boston Bruins
6. fatboydad54 Kansas City Scouts-Colorafo Rockies-New Jersey Devils
7. warrior0510 Pittsburgh Penguins
8. alanasdad Detroit Red Wings
9. wininie New York Islanders
10. mattyberk Edmonton Oilers
11. jmerch Minnesota North Stars-Dallas Stars Including California Seals and Cleveland Barons
12. mllz Atlanta-Calgary Flames
13. tkconcrete Los Angeles Kings
14. knigtthorn Chicago Blackhawks
15. crippled Buffalo Sabres
16. eicheltower Washington Capitals
17. mattcarriere New York Rangers
18. lupah99 St. Louis Blues
19. wininie (2) Toronto Maple Leafs
20. taybaijor (2) Tampa Bay Lightning
21. tkconkrete (2) Vancouver Canucks
22. alanasdad (2) Hartford Whalers-Carolina Hurricanes
23. warrior0510 (2) Anaheim Ducks
24. kiteport Ottawa Senators (new)

The divisions will be realigned on the basis of the order of teams reserved. One conference will have the higher salary teams. This will help the lesser salary teams compete for the Stanley Cup.
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FAQ's

Can teams use player seasons that are not from their exclusive franchise?

Yes, but only if they are NOT one of the original 15 players. Of the original 15 players, only player seasons from your franchise can be used.
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After the original 15 posted, can teams draft players not be from their franchise?

Yes, you can draft players from any team.
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After the original 15 posted, do teams have to keep players a certain amount of time?

No, teams can drop players anytime. That's including the original 15. All dropped players are blacklisted.
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Who is available to draft in the 8 round draft?

Any players not posted to the original 15.
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Can players be traded from one exclusive franchise to another?

Yes, and teams must use the same seasons for the traded players.
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Can draft picks be traded?

Yes.
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Can MLers play?

No, for trade filler only.
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Can players be put on IR.

Yes, but only for players who are WIS ineligible for certain seasons.
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How many players must you keep after season one?

You can keep or drop as many players as you want, but remember once players are dropped they are then blacklisted.
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Does 2004-05 count as an IR season?

No, we'll skip through 04-05 season and not use this season for IR.
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Will season(s) be used after 2016-17?

Yes, we'll use 2017-18. Our 5 seasons will probably be done before 2018-19 stats are out.
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After your original 15 are posted from your franchise, do players you draft have to be from your franchise?

No, players can be then drafted from any franchise.
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After your original 15 are posted from your franchise, do players you draft have to be uses progressively?

Yes, all players have to be used progressively.
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Original 15 for alanasdad

The Detroit 15

	C	'88-89 Steve Yzerman	80/80	65	90	155	50.3	61	388	16.75	78	9,399,966
	C	'05-06 Pavel Datsyuk	75/82	28	59	87	53.1	22	146	19.18	86	6,977,740
	LW	'03-04 Henrik Zetterberg	61/82	15	28	43	45.6	14	137	10.90	77	3,442,669
	RW	'50-51 Gordie Howe	70/70	43	43	86	49.5	74	278	15.47	66	6,849,367
	C	'93-94 Vyacheslav Kozlov	77/84	34	39	73	50.3	50	202	16.83	72	5,746,884
	C	'91-92 Sergei Fedorov	80/80	32	54	86	50.4	72	249	12.85	74	5,974,286
	C	'40-41 Syd Howe	48/48	20	24	44	50.3	8	136	14.71	70	5,783,173
	C	'65-66 Alex Delvecchio	70/70	31	38	69	50.4	16	218	14.22	61	5,352,033
	LW	'02-03 Tomas Holmstrom	74/82	20	20	40	0.0	62	109	18.30	65	4,348,331
	D	'05-06 Nicklas Lidstrom	80/82	16	64	80	0.0	50	243	6.58	83	8,204,842
	D	'07-08 Brian Rafalski	73/82	13	42	55	0.0	34	175	7.43	87	7,053,179
	D	'50-51 Red Kelly	70/70	17	37	54	50.6	24	165	10.30	87	8,318,488
	D	'99-00 Chris Chelios	81/82	3	31	34	0.0	103	135	2.22	90	5,960,861

	Pos	Goalie	GP	W	L	T	GAA	SV	SV%	GA	SA	Salary
	G	'50-51 Terry Sawchuk	70	44	13	13	1.99	1594	93.43	112	1706	9,763,475
	G	'00-01 Manny Legace	39	24	5	5	2.05	836	92.00	73	909	3,266,291

Original 15 for knightthorn

C '63-64 Stan Mikita 70/70 39 50 89 50.2 146 258 15.12 45 5,026,0
LW '64-65 Bobby Hull 61/70 39 32 71 48.9 32 241 16.18 61 5,697,822
C '89-90 Jeremy Roenick 78/80 26 40 66 50.5 54 173 15.03 54 4,104,055
RW '69-70 Jim Pappin 66/76 28 25 53 48.9 68 158 17.72 80 5,773,642
RW '88-89 Steve Larmer 80/80 43 44 87 49.6 54 269 15.99 49 5,088,944
LW '09-10 Patrick Sharp 82/82 25 41 66 51.7 28 266 9.40 76 5,073,200
C '10-11 Jonathan Toews 80/82 32 44 76 56.7 26 233 13.73 71 5,634,159
LW '80-81 Al Secord 41/80 13 9 22 47.0 145 111 11.71 18 251,087
C '83-84 Denis Savard 75/80 37 57 94 50.4 71 210 17.62 37 4,037,846

D '12-13 Duncan Keith 47/48 3 24 27 0.0 31 91 3.30 84 6,268,963
D '91-92 Chris Chelios 80/80 9 47 56 0.0 245 239 3.77 77 6,203,426
D '09-10 Brent Seabrook 78/82 4 26 30 0.0 59 129 3.10 89 5,696,239
D '68-69 Pat Stapleton 75/76 6 50 56 0.0 44 112 5.36 69 5,615,833

G '11-12 Corey Crawford 57 30 24 0 2.72 1361 90.30 146 1507 2,891,814
G '69-70 Tony Esposito 63 38 17 8 2.17 1521 91.41 143 1664 4,836,867

Tampa Bay Original 15

s	82/82	51	44	95	47.9	38	297	17.17	50	5,702,645
	RW	'02-03 Martin St. Louis	82/82	33	37	70	37.8	32	201	16.40	67	5,585,341
	LW	'99-00 Fredrik Modin	80/82	22	26	48	50.0	18	167	13.17	71	4,415,471
	C	'02-03 Vincent Lecavalier	80/82	33	45	78	43.9	39	274	12.00	56	4,475,837
	RW	'14-15 Nikita Kucherov	82/82	28	36	64	0.0	37	190	14.74	72	5,369,082
	LW	'95-96 Rob Zamuner	72/82	15	20	35	49.6	62	152	9.87	83	3,783,337
	C	'03-04 Brad Richards	82/82	26	53	79	46.7	12	244	10.70	76	5,386,768
	RW	'10-11 Teddy Purcell	81/82	17	34	51	32.4	10	196	8.67	60	3,069,272
	LW	'13-14 Ondrej Palat	81/82	23	36	59	13.5	20	165	13.94	73	4,947,485
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	D	'02-03 Dan Boyle	77/82	13	40	53	0.0	44	136	9.60	92	7,683,833
	D	'15-16 Victor Hedman	78/82	10	37	47	0.0	46	180	5.56	91	7,172,775
	D	'14-15 Anton Stralman	82/82	9	30	39	0.0	26	138	6.52	94	7,309,169
	D	'13-14 Matthew Carle	82/82	2	29	31	0.0	28	115	1.74	79	4,990,502
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	Pos	Goalie	GP	W	L	T	GAA	SV	SV%	GA	SA	Salary
	G	'13-14 Ben Bishop	63	37	21	0	2.23	1625	92.40	133	1758	5,852,306
	G	'01-02 Nikolai Khabibulin	70	24	32	10	2.36	1761	92.00	153	1914	5,862,575
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Somehow, I cut off Stamkos from my post above for Tampa Keepers
09/10 - Steven Stamkos - 82/82 - 51 - 44 - 95 - 47.9 - 38 - 297 - 17.17 - 50 - $5,702,645

Team mattyberk

Pos	Player	GP	GLS	AST	PTS	FOW%	PIM	S	S%	DEF	Salary
	C	'81-82 Wayne Gretzky	80/80	92	120	212	50.3	26	369	24.93	80	12,174,454
	RW	'82-83 Jari Kurri	80/80	45	59	104	50.1	22	218	20.64	75	7,972,352
	RW	'81-82 Glenn Anderson	80/80	38	67	105	50.3	71	252	15.08	74	6,818,520
	C	'85-86 Mark Messier	63/80	35	49	84	50.4	68	201	17.41	84	6,363,250
	C	'96-97 Doug Weight	80/82	21	61	82	50.7	80	235	8.94	88	5,587,762
	C	'99-00 Todd Marchant	82/82	17	23	40	52.2	70	170	10.00	78	4,048,077
	LW	'86-87 Esa Tikkanen	76/80	34	44	78	49.8	120	126	26.98	65	7,398,206
	LW	'84-85 Mike Krushelnyski	80/80	43	45	88	49.5	60	187	22.99	73	7,905,896
	LW	'87-88 Craig Simpson	80/80	56	34	90	46.7	77	177	31.64	62	9,248,562
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	D	'81-82 Paul Coffey	80/80	29	60	89	0.0	106	234	12.39	70	7,767,759
	D	'82-83 Charlie Huddy	76/80	20	37	57	0.0	58	151	13.25	70	6,162,063
	D	'99-00 Jason Smith	80/82	3	11	14	100.0	60	96	3.13	93	5,073,752
	D	'81-82 Kevin Lowe	80/80	9	31	40	0.0	63	110	8.18	75	5,590,669
	D	[ Draft Now ]
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	Pos	Goalie	GP	W	L	T	GAA	SV	SV%	GA	SA	Salary
	G	'15-16 Cam Talbot	56	21	32	0	2.55	1511	91.70	137	1648	4,325,625
	G	'98-99 Tommy Salo	64	25	28	9	2.48	1488	90.35	159	1647	3,296,461
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Team warrior0510

Pittsburgh Penguins:

C Mario Lemieux 84/85 3,331,202
LW Lowell MacDonald 72/73 6,273,155
RW Jaromir Jagr 92/93 6,290,738
C Sidney Crosby 12/13 4,232,000
LW Kevin Stevens 89/90 1,078,213
RW Jean Pronovost 72/73 2,091,322
C Evgeni Malkin 07/08 6,938,541
LW Chris Kunitz 10/11 4,246,338
RW Joe Mullen 90/91 3,357,131
D Kris Letang 08/09 4,803,773
D Larry Murphy 90/91 2,770,334
D Sergei Gonchar 05/06 5,857,543
D Ron Stakhouse 74/75 5,187,892
G Mac-Andre Fleury 5,159,666
G Jean-Sebastien Aubin 99/00 3,622,605

Here is my crappy Hartford Team: - Read carefully - Ulf Samuelsson is all mine!

	C	'85-86 Ron Francis	53/80	24	53	77	50.6	24	120	20.00	81	5,307,664
	C	'05-06 Eric Staal	82/82	45	55	100	42.6	81	279	16.13	39	4,435,085
	RW	'85-86 Kevin Dineen	57/80	33	35	68	49.4	124	167	19.76	56	4,478,374
	RW	'89-90 Pat Verbeek	80/80	44	45	89	49.1	228	219	20.09	36	4,547,576
	LW	'83-84 Sylvain Turgeon	76/80	40	32	72	48.8	55	237	16.88	40	4,009,825
	RW	'79-80 Blaine Stoughton	80/80	56	44	100	49.0	16	234	23.93	61	7,850,335
	C	'85-86 Ray Ferraro	76/80	30	47	77	50.4	57	132	22.73	64	6,355,417
	LW	'97-98 Sami Kapanen	81/82	26	37	63	0.0	16	190	13.68	83	5,782,598
	LW	'92-93 Geoff Sanderson	82/84	46	43	89	49.5	28	271	16.97	27	3,283,533
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	D	'12-13 Justin Faulk	38/48	5	10	15	0.0	15	76	6.58	43	1,811,786
	D	'85-86 Ulf Samuelsson	80/80	5	19	24	0.0	174	72	6.94	47	1,879,331
	D	'96-97 Glen Wesley	68/82	6	26	32	0.0	40	126	4.76	62	3,399,313
	D	'85-86 Dave Babych	81/81	14	55	69	0.0	50	205	6.83	54	4,872,417
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	Pos	Goalie	GP	W	L	T	GAA	SV	SV%	GA	SA	Salary
	G	'07-08 Cam Ward	69	37	30	0	2.75	1690	90.40	180	1870	3,617,022
	G	'98-99 Arturs Irbe	62	27	20	12	2.22	1618	92.30	135	1753	5,614,579

MattCarriere: New York Rangers 15

C - 68-69 Jean Ratelle
C - 69-70 Walt Tkaczuk
RW - 28-29 Bill Cook
C - 91-92 Mark Messier
RW - 03-04 Jaromir Jagr
RW - 89-90 Mike Gartner
RW - 70-71 Rod Gilbert
RW - 38-39 Bryan Hextall
RW - 09-10 Marian Gaborik

D - 91-92 Brian Leetch
D - 11-12 Dan Girardi
D - 11-12 Ryan McDonagh
D - 69-70 Rod Seiling

G - 09-10 Henrik Lundqvist
G - 65-66 Ed Giacomin

Que/Colorado:
F:
Joe Sakic 98-99
Peter Stastny 81-82
Alex Tanguay 00-01

Michel Goulet 81-82
Anton Statsny 82-83
Jacques Richard 80-81
Adam Deadmarsh 94-95
Owen Nolan 94-95
Milan Hejduk 99-00
Def:
Curtis Leschyshyn 92-93
Rob Blake 01-02
Steve Duchesne 92-93
Adam Foote 98-99
Goalie
Patrick Roy 98-99
Semyon Varlamov 13-14

Minne/Dallas and the rest don't matter

Pos	Player	GP	GLS	AST	PTS	FOW%	PIM	S	S%	DEF	Salary
	C	'89-90 Mike Modano	80/80	29	46	75	50.4	63	172	16.86	80	6,436,682
	LW	'00-01 Brenden Morrow	82/82	20	24	44	40.9	128	121	16.53	88	5,795,593
	RW	'97-98 Jere Lehtinen	72/82	23	19	42	0.0	20	201	11.44	90	5,016,563
	C	'78-79 Bobby Smith	80/80	30	44	74	50.4	39	244	12.30	44	3,541,560
	LW	'87-88 Brian Bellows	77/80	40	41	81	49.5	81	283	14.13	33	3,387,309
	RW	'81-82 Dino Ciccarelli	76/80	55	51	106	49.1	138	289	19.03	60	6,950,302
	C	'88-89 Dave Gagner	75/80	35	43	78	50.2	104	183	19.13	62	5,718,970
	LW	'79-80 Steve Payne	80/80	42	43	85	49.6	40	233	18.03	79	7,411,597
	RW	'89-90 Ulf Dahlen	76/80	20	22	42	49.4	30	135	14.81	66	4,085,501
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	D	'96-97 Sergei Zubov	78/82	13	30	43	0.0	24	133	9.77	85	6,695,503
	D	'96-97 Darryl Sydor	82/82	8	40	48	0.0	51	142	5.63	83	6,590,637
	D	'97-98 Richard Matvichuk	74/82	3	15	18	0.0	63	71	4.23	77	3,813,222
	D	'14-15 John Klingberg	65/82	11	29	40	0.0	32	98	11.22	87	3,397,257
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	Pos	Goalie	GP	W	L	T	GAA	SV	SV%	GA	SA	Salary
	G	'10-11 Kari Lehtonen	69	34	35	0	2.55	1868	91.40	175	2043	4,901,171
	G	'02-03 Marty Turco	55	31	10	10	1.72	1267	93.20	92	1359	6,204,140

OTTAWA SENATORS

FORWARDS
Jason Spezza 2005-2006
Daniel Alfredsson 2002-2003
Danny Heatley 2005-2006
Marian Hossa 2000-2001
Mike Hoffman 2014-2015
Magnus Arvedsson 1998-1999
Peter Schaefer 2002-2003
Patrick Eaves 2007-2008
Martin Havlat 2002-2003

DEFENSEMEN
Zdeno Chara 2001-2002
Erik Karlsson 2013-2014
Wade Redden 2000-2001
Chris Phillips 1999-2000

GOALTENDERS
Craig Anderson 2012-2013
Andrew Hammond 2015-2016

Isles season 1:

pos	SEASON	name
RW	78-79	BOSSY
C	77-78	TROTTIER
LW	81-82	TONELLI
LW	77-78	GILLIES
C	91-92	TURGEON
C	86-87	LAFONTAINE
RW	95-96	PALFFY
C	83-84	SUTTER BRENT
LW	91-92	KING
D	75-76	LEWIS
D	74-75	POTVIN DENIS
D	80-81	MORROW
D	77-78	PERSSON
G	2003-04	DIPIETRO
G	2014-15	HALAK