ATTENZIONE
Per i giocatori che sono andati/vanno in europa in questa off-season è necessario distinguere tra due casi:
quelli che ci vanno solo x via del lockout e che poi torneranno indietro quando la NHL riparte, e quelli che invece vanno x restarci.
Solo per questi ultimi è corretto permettere l'opzione 'signed overseas'.
Un criterio efficace per distinguerli è basarsi sul fatto che fossero o meno NHL free agents in questa off-season.
Esempio: Andrei Kostitsyn era RFA e ha firmato x tutto l'anno col Chelyabinsk, quindi ovviamente deve poter essere settato come 'overseas' da Claude Giroux.
Esempio contrario: Ehrhoff se ne è andato in Germania, ma non era NHL FA, x cui il suo contratto europeo prevede automaticamente una out-clause che lo termina nel momento in cui finisce il lockout. Anzer non può approfittarne x metterlo come 'signed overseas'.
Traducendo in regola e con maggiori specifiche:
If, when signing overseas during the 2012 off-season, the player was a NHL free agent (or was released by his NHL team), then he can be set as "signed-overseas/retired" on the league site. If his contract overseas is instead a lockout contract (gets terminated as soon as the NHL resumes) he is not eligible to have his Stanleit contract terminated.
If the NHL free agent signs in Europe after the NHL season starts, he won't be eligible for overseas status, just like previous seasons.
Also, if the NHL free agent is offered his stanleit contract after he signed overseas, he is not eligible to be set as 'signed overseas'.
Players erroneously set as signed-overseas will have that status removed as soon as possible should that become evident.
Here is a list of most players still signed to lockout contracts:
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?id=75388" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.eliteprospects.com/lockout.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
players appearing on any of those lists can not be set as signed/overseas
(sfortunatamente nessuna delle 2 liste è completa.. però messe insieme forse coprono tutti i giocatori)
Lastly, to cover the unlikely case of players under contract in the NHL that refuse/fail to come back from Europe straight away, their GM will have the chance to set them as IR as long as they stay in Europe.
They may also set them as OFS, but in that case they won't be able to reactivate the player till the end of the 2012/2013 season (playoffs included).
