EHM The Blue Line

I just recently started a "career" or whatever you'd call a new game in EHM with the Colorado Avalanche. I'm a big believer in "trimming" the fat and constantly look for ways to free up as much cap space as possible so I can be very versatile come free agent time.

Anways, Ryan Smyth is currently signed to something like 4 year 6.5 million dollar contract. He's not that great, something like a .75ppg player, which is to low to make all that money for a forward. In my Blues game I have players like Perron and Higgings producing ~70-80 points from ~$2 mil. I tried to trade him but noticed he's got a no trade clause.

Is there anyway I can make him waive it or request a trade? I've tried criticizing him and it made him unhappy but I still can't trade him.

fine him. If you do it enough he'll let you trade him.

Be careful though. Treating a well thought of player like that can have a negative effect on other players on the team. It can also have a negative impact on future free agent signings.

If you need cap space you could place him on waivers and then send down to the Affiliate if nobody puts a claim on him.

selne wrote:If you need cap space you could place him on waivers and then send down to the Affiliate if nobody puts a claim on him.

Yeah I'll probably just place him on waivers at the end of the season if I want the cap room. He's Ryan Smyth, so I'm sure somebody would claim him.

Thanks for all the replies.

he is gonna accepte to his favorite NHL TEAM,

What normally works for me is to set their player status to "Not Needed" and put him up as available for trade. I've traded 3 or 4 guys with no-trade clauses and that's always seemed to work for me. That seems to make them angry enough at you to want to leave the team.

I just discipline them and fine them for no reason and stop playing them. That usually upsets them and they're usually happy to go anywhere after that.