Edited Sep. 23, 2020 at 2:22 a.m.
Quoting: SuperRandy49
Sorry bud but that 8 year extension rule after the deadline was eliminated from the new CBA that was signed July 10, 2020.
https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2020/07/examining-some-major-cba-changes.html
https://www.nhlpa.com/the-pa/cba
The first link it says it halfway down but I figured you would question the integrity of the link so I went to the CBA website and looked it up and its true. If you acquire his rights before he becomes a UFA you can sign him to an 8 year. I knew Pierre Lebrun wouldn't make a mistake like that, especially since I remember it was Lebrun who brought up on TSN about how EK couldn't sign a new contract with SJS until after the upcoming TDL.
That is a different rule. That is when you acquire a player on a one year deal. You used to have to wait till the next TDL to sign them to an 8 year extension.
Unless there was a different amendment that one does not apply to this rule.
For the leafs to sign him to an 8 year deal they would have had to acquire him by the TDL.
The ONLY team that can sign him to an 8 year deal is the blues. If they were to sign petro to Toronto’s structure and trade him to the leafs then it could be an 8 year deal. It would be the first sign and trade ever completed. So even that is far fetched.
So I decided to do the work, so here is the amendment you are referring to
“ Sign an 8-Year SPC
CBA §50.8(b)(iv) shall be amended to provide that when a Club acquires a Player who is signed through the subsequent Trade Deadline, it can immediately sign him to an 8-year SPC without waiting until the subsequent Trade Deadline if otherwise permitted to do so under Section 50.5(f).”
As you can see when a club acquires a player “WHO IS SIGNED THROUGH THE SUBSEQUENT TRADE DEADLINE” they can now immediately sign that player.