So with my current save I continued as normal for now and on Sept 1st a few of those players were signed by AI teams - Bondra, Hasek, Federov, Fetisov, and a few others.
It also looks like the Sept 1st is when all those players are removing from the free agent pool and come back July 1st when the new season starts.
My one suggestion for now would be on the Manager options where you can mark the Iron Curtain rule it says "prior to the late 1980's".
Since it's specific and not random, what about changing the wording to say something like "prior to the 1990-91 season" ?
Since it said late 1980's, I was thinking it would have been the 1989-1990 season
