- NHL
- Hockey's Hardest Hitters
Transaction Rules
- Trade Review Period
- 24 Hours, no vetoes
- Enforce Roster Minimums
- Yes
- Who is Placed on Waivers
- Dropped players and all free agents after game start (recommended)
- Free Agents During Preseason (After Draft)
- Always-On Waivers
- Lock Free Agents Before Draft
- No
- Transaction Limits
- Week: 6
Waiver Claims
- How Are Claims Resolved
- Blind Bid Auction
- Time on Waivers After Drop
- 24 Hours
- Prevent Waiver Churning
- None, cycled players are subject to waivers like all others
- Always-On During Preseason
- Yes
- Process Game-Start Waivers On
- Every day, locking at 5:00 AM EDT
- First-Come-First-Served
- After 8:00 AM EDT
- Initial Waiver Budget
- $150
- Allow $0 Bids
- No
Miscellaneous
- Lifetime
- 25 Keepers Est. '25-26
- Membership
- Private
- Type
- H2H Points
- Flea Eligible
- No
- Lineup Locking
- At game start, Weekly Lineups
Rosters
- Roster Requirements
- 3 C, 2 LW, 2 RW, 4 F, 6 D
- Totals
- 25: 17 Starters, 8 Bench, +4 IR, +10 TAXI
Tiebreakers
- Individual Game Tiebreakers
- Most total starter Points
- Highest individual starter score
- Higher bench points total
- Break Regular Season Ties
- No
- Power & Playoff Rank Tiebreakers
- Best head-to-head record
- Best division record (same division only)
- Most average points/game
- Hardest schedule (record)
- Hardest schedule (points)
- Rank division winners higher
- Yes
- Retroactively apply official stat changes (recommended)
- Yes
Draft
- Status
- Unscheduled
- Player Pool
- Rookies only
- Rounds
- 5
- Snake
- Snake the whole draft
- Supplemental
- Yes
- Reserve Players
- Do not count TAXI against roster maximums
- Non-Keepers
- Release at start of draft
Calendar
- Current Season Opened
- Wed 6/25/25 6:00 AM
- Next Season Opens
- Thu 6/25/26 6:00 AM
- Trading Deadline
- Mon 3/23/26 5:59 AM EDT
- Playoffs
- 6 Teams; Weeks: 22-24 Mon 3/2-Sun 3/22, 2 byes (re-seed each round)
- Schedule
- Auto-generated
