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Originally Posted by Ciccarelli
For some reason, you're unable to sign players from Europe unless they become free agents or they're from the Generic Leagues (ex. U18 leagues). The game seems to lack the ability to give out NHL/CHL/KHL Release Clauses out to young European/Russian players (KHL for Russians). For Russian players, its a bit understandable. For the other countries... not so much.
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Investigating it now. In those situations, it's supposed to be allowing the contract to be signed and charging the NHL team the standard IIHF transfer fee - but only in the offseason. It's supposed to work the same way as draft picks signing out of major junior (just a different transfer amount), and the generic leagues shouldn't be differentiated from the other ones (they're set identically in the database), but I have to work through a few different scenarios to see exactly what's going wrong.
Edit: OK, I think this is a combination of 2-3 things: the new system designed to inhibit overseas movement being too zealous when it comes to young players going from Europe to North America; some contract offer interface options not working properly when the player has an existing contract in a league that should allow releases; and a side issue for movement to the CHL leagues: an unrealistic way of determining which Europeans are interested in playing junior in North America (every player has an equal chance of choosing that option, but it should happen at a higher rate for players who have a shot at making the NHL.) I'll submit it as one collective bug to the tracker, so it can be dealt with as a whole. Probably going to need a couple of test builds to work it all out.