Good morning SHL,

It was brought to the attention of Head Office that the Toronto North Stars began the season with several players not under contract. While investigating this/deliberating on appropriate disciplinary measures (the rulebook currently does not specify a consequence for rostering players not under contract, so we needed time to discuss and research precedent), Toronto was instructed to sign those players in order to play them legally. 

It was determined during this investigation that, due to contract tier adjustments, Toronto would not have been able to legally sign those players (players who had already begun the season on Toronto’s roster and had played a full week of sims), as they would not have had the cap space to do so. While calculating this, we also discovered that TOR had been assessed a fine (for releasing an active player) that was $500,000 higher than it should have been. When all the math was said and done, the final cap overage was calculated at $5,000,000.

In accordance with the rulebook (Section II, Subsection C, Rule 6), Toronto will be issued a fine of $10,000,000 (twice the surplus) towards next season’s cap (S80).

Ordinarily, Toronto would be required to rectify this situation prior to the next sim, but due to the late hour at which this was determined/finalized and the GMs were able to be notified, as well as the early sim time for this day's sim, TOR will be given 24 hours from the time of this post to become cap compliant.

As always, Toronto (@mcgriddleluver and @jaypc8237) may appeal this decision and can send an appeal request to any head of the appeals committee, currently @DrunkenTeddy and @Leafs4ever. Any appeal should be filed within 48 hours of publication of this punishment.


On behalf of SHL HO,
Frenchie