Player Rookie Status

[Asiriath]

From my understanding in the NHL a player must play up to 10 games in 1 season to not a rookie in the next season. i have 2 young prospects, both 20. Owen Tippett and Nico Hischier.. i let both play 7 games in there first year, neither impressed, so i sent em down. Same thing the next year, let them both play 8 games, sent them down cause having them as 4th liners didnt make sense. Now on there 3rd year I have them as my second liners and now there not rookies?

"To be considered a rookie, a player must not have played in more than 25 NHL games in any preceding seasons, nor in six or more NHL games in each of any two preceding seasons. Any player at least 26 years of age (by September 15th of that season) is not considered a rookie."

This confuses me because i recall everybody always saying a team has until the 9 game mark to determine whether they want to keep there rookie up or send them back. Matthew Tkachuk scored 2 goals in his 10th game of the season which was the game after they decided he was staying. Maybe im reading something wrong idk.

[nino33]

Matthew Tkachuk was in his first season in the NHL, and thus was still a rookie (as he hadn't played any games in the NHL ever before this year)
If they had sent him back to Junior after playing 6 games, he'd be a rookie next year too (because he'd not have had two previous seasons of 6 or more NHL games)

I'm not sure how often it happens that a team keeps a player on the NHL team at the start of the season and they play 6-9 games but then get sent back to Junior two seasons in a row so that by their 3rd season they're no longer a rookie......

[Manimal]

From my understanding in the NHL a player must play up to 10 games in 1 season to not a rookie in the next season. i have 2 young prospects, both 20. Owen Tippett and Nico Hischier.. i let both play 7 games in there first year, neither impressed, so i sent em down. Same thing the next year, let them both play 8 games, sent them down cause having them as 4th liners didnt make sense. Now on there 3rd year I have them as my second liners and now there not rookies?

"To be considered a rookie, a player must not have played in more than 25 NHL games in any preceding seasons, nor in six or more NHL games in each of any two preceding seasons. Any player at least 26 years of age (by September 15th of that season) is not considered a rookie."

This confuses me because i recall everybody always saying a team has until the 9 game mark to determine whether they want to keep there rookie up or send them back. Matthew Tkachuk scored 2 goals in his 10th game of the season which was the game after they decided he was staying. Maybe im reading something wrong idk.

The 10 games is just for contractual status. If they play less then 10 games then their ELC slides a year.
Your Tippett and Hischier should not be rookies year three, as they did play "six or more...in two preceding seasons"