Talk:2008–09 NHL transactions

"Rights" to a player
A hockey club may gain the rights to talk to a certain player first, but nevertheless, the player is not a free agent until July 1st. So, up to this point, the player is a member of the club he has been traded to. Hockey-holic (talk) 08:27, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Blake Wheeler
Should his entry level signing with Boston be included in the free agent listing? ccwaters (talk) 19:05, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * If he was under contract with Phoenix, he should be on this list. But I highly doubt this because he signed an entry level contract. Hockey-holic (talk) 19:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * No he wasn't, Phoenix drafted him, but he refused to sign with them. They got an extra 2nd round pick (#35 overall) as compensation. ccwaters (talk) 19:13, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * http://coyotes.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=364733 ccwaters (talk) 19:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Since he did not have any binding agreement with Phoenix, treat his signing with Boston like a signing of an undrafted player then. Those usually stay off the list, if I'm correct. Hockey-holic (talk) 19:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I suppose it does make sense to keep him off then, I had only added him based on his being moved to a new team as a UFA, but because he was never under contract with Phoenix, he should be left off. – Nurmsook! (talk) 19:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Players joining NHL organisations from non-NHL clubs...
...like Väänänen, Babchuk and Jamtin should stay off the list because this article is about team-to-team transactions within the NHL. Can we take this policy as general consensus or are there arguments against it? Hockey-holic (talk) 11:56, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Nullified trade
Should there still be reference to the nullified SJ/PHI trade in some form or should we just delete it? ccwaters (talk) 02:50, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I would delete the trade from the table, but perhaps put a note on the bottom saying "Trade between SJ and PHI (Kyle McLaren for 6th in '09, Mar 4 '09) was nullified by PHI on Mar 6 '09 because McLaren did not pass a physical *insert reference here*" or something like that. But that's just my $0.02... --Soccer-holic (talk) 10:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * We could leave it and use tags too. ccwaters (talk) 13:46, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Confusing
Although the color scheme show's player/team together; on the first glance it's confusing. For example, It intially looked as though Bill Gurein was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers. GoodDay (talk) 20:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, when I made the first transactions page, it included logo images, and was less confusing. Obviously, it was decided to get rid of the logos, so it looks pretty bland now.  Plus, I didn't really know what I was doing - I created it out of the little HTML I knew at the time.  Please feel free to remake it. Thricecube (talk) 21:57, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Free agent re-signings
We should include players who have become free agents and then chose to re-sign with their same team. This would provide useful information about free agent signings that is currently omitted from the lists. A player should not be included if he re-signs before becoming a free agent, but if he re-signs after becoming a free agent he should be included in the list. Dolovis (talk) 14:14, 31 October 2010 (UTC)