Player Contract offer limitations

[tcat84]

I'm heading into my 2nd offseason in my save using the '98 database. I had only one pending UFA I wanted to keep which is Alexander Mogilny. Pre-draft I was going to try and re-sign him, but he said he wants to test the free agent market and if I was in the the offer screen it was showing an 8 millionish offer the board was allowing me.

Fast forward to the offseason, I have about 13 Million in cap space available and along with Mogilny there are some high profile free agents like M. Lemieux, Yzerman, S. Niedermayer, Sakic available and I was obviously interested in one or two of them.

This is where my problems arose, I went to offer them a contract and even setting the player to a key role on the team the max amount I am allowed to offer is 5,019,000 per year. All the top tier guys wanted around 6 or at least 5.5 and unfortunately my offer doesn't meet their expectations.

So with 13 Million in cap space available and set the player's role to KEY, is there anything I can really do??

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions on how to overcome this.

Thanks

[nino33]

So with 13 Million in cap space available and set the player's role to KEY, is there anything I can really do??

Are you close to or over your Team Budget?

[tcat84]

I think that was my problem. But I cheated and changed my player budget with EHM assistant to the same as the cap (44 mil) and I could still only offer 5.5 mil. So I then said screw it and changed it to 80 mil haha and I could offer what ever I wanted.

Thanks for your reply though!