Greetings SHL,

It has come to the attention of SHL Head Office that during games streamed on 04/21/205, the Tampa Bay Barracuda played with lines that included a player not under contract with the team. 




Tampa Bay did in fact provide evidence of having offered the player a contract, but the contract was not posted prior to the signing freeze and was never moved to the free agent section of the portal as stated in Section II, Subsection E, Rule 3.a.c:




GM’s have been warned in multiple places that the 72 hour crasher moratorium would void any contracts agreed to that were not posted at the time of the freeze. The player in question’s contract was not posted before the freeze and was never moved to free agency.

HO has voted to issue the following punishment:

Tampa Bay’s GM’s @hockeyiscool and @EmoLeBron will be fined half of their GM salary in S82.

Tampa Bay will forfeit their S84 2nd round pick.

The player Max Carnage (@Sizz) will be immediately released to free agency and is no longer allowed to be signed by Tampa Bay for the S82 season.

As always, the Tampa Bay GMs have 48 hours to send an appeal request to any head of the appeals committee, currently consisting of @DrunkenTeddy and @Leafs4ever.