2009-2010 NHL Season Part 3: After The Gold Rush

[aparch]

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Wow, thanks for the explanation. You'd think they'd be able to do it a little better, without the mass confusion, but then again, it is the NHL.

So, if an NHL team doesn't have an affiliate, they can just put a player on any other AHL team, and the AHL team just has to go along with it? Or is this a case where the AHL teams have to agree to take these players?

The AHL team would have to agree to take on a player from the unaffiliated NHL club. When the Dallas Stars kicked around the idea of sending Sean Avery to the AHL two years ago, the Hartford Wolf-Pack was the only club that wanted him; the Manitoba Moose went so far as to publicly state (since Dallas was putting a majority of their players in Manitoba) that they would refuse his assignment to them.

Most of those terms get worked out by the GM's behind the scenes.



Here's another wrench to the system too... NHL clubs don't necessarily have to assign their players to their AHL affiliate. They can also work out agreements to assign their players to other AHL clubs. The Atlanta Thrashers "loaned" defenseman Grant Lewis from the Chicago Wolves (AHL) to the Hershey Bears (AHL), and the Florida Panthers "loaned" forward Greg Stewart from the Rochester Americans (AHL) to the Chicago Wolves (AHL).
These types of loans happen mostly toward the end of the year (the AHL trade deadline is traditionally a week after the NHL deadline) just before the "clear day" rosters are set. (Don't ask. It's a whole 'nother can of worms that you'd need some beers in you to understand.)

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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From Down goes Brown. Classic.

"And, Phil Kessel against the Bruins...*crickets*"

[aparch]

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"And, Phil Kessel against the Bruins...*crickets*"

I liked the "Calgary Flames: It's like watching the Toronto Maple Leafs, just two hours later."

[Hammer]

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Why? It was just a scrum. Besides Cindy had already gotten away with about a dozen crosschecks leading up to it.

Doesn't matter. Someone touched his head. 5-game suspension.

[Eagles]

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I liked the "Calgary Flames: It's like watching the Toronto Maple Leafs, just two hours later."

I am favorite of "The Edmonton Oilers...will never be on NBC". hahaha

[bigblue_dl]

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(Don't ask. It's a whole 'nother can of worms that you'd need some beers in you to understand.)

Ok, I'll ask at about 9:00 tonight.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Not Huet, but might as well be...

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[pardonme]

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Captain Clutch!

[Wardy]

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Captain Clutch!

More like Mottau and White getting PWNd like they always do leaving Drury wide friggen open in front. I doubt Jacques will get the hint that both are friggen awful. Martin and Salvador should be the D-pair for NJ up-1 under 1:00.

[SteveP]

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From Down goes Brown. Classic.

How'd that taste, America???

ROFLMAO!

[aparch]

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Issues with my cable (landlord pays for it, never activated my converter box) has made me lose versus and anything that isn't above basic cable (for the technical minded my ClearQAM was blocked by Comcast unless you use their box; I'm lazy and like just plugging the cable into my tv to get the local channels in HD. The box the landlord got me is one of the non-HD boxes and I'd lose the local channels in HD)...

But Comcast Chicago is offering a free preview of NHL Network for a few days, and I'm going to enjoy the Sharks/Stars game in glorious unfiltered 1080i HD. (again, for the technical crowd, they unblocked the SD and HD ClearQAM versions of those channels.)

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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So apparently Spacek should've been the first player to get slapped with the new rule, but his shoulder-to-head hit on Booth (of all players) was not called.

[MoFan]

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So apparently Spacek should've been the first player to get slapped with the new rule, but his shoulder-to-head hit on Booth (of all players) was not called.

Saw the hit reviewed in detail on the NHL Network, they said it didn't apply because the hit was straight on, Booth just had his head down and should have seen the hit coming.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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I am favorite of "The Edmonton Oilers...will never be on NBC". hahaha

"The Winnipeg Jets...."

[bronconick]

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Nabokov with his 50th career shutout last night to tie him for 24th all time with that Detroit backup guy. I can't recall his name, because he now plays about as much as Clemmensieve did in Jersey.

Speaking of which, could the Wings just go on ahead now and get to a 5-6 seed? They're a top 4 seed disguised as an 8 right now because of injury, just like last year's Ducks.