Because apparently I am since I don't understand this at all
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I think you’d have to be dumb to understand it. Crazy rule
Must play AHL games before recall – will create issues for teams that need a quick recall on short notice
Sounds like the new rule prevents teams from sending down players as additional healthy scratches to sit in AHL? I think. It’s a weirdly formatted tweet
If I understand it right, (and take this with a grain of salt), the NHL recently changed the rules to eliminate paper transactions for NHL clubs to send down AHL players to meet the cap restrictions— I.e. sending down Jiricek without actually sending him to Iowa, just keeping him in Minnesota while on paper listing him as playing for Iowa (and the Iowa Wild “scratching” him)
Now when teams send a player to their AHL affiliate, they HAVE to physically play in at least one game for the AHL affiliate before they can be called up to the NHL again.
Anyone sent down to the AHL is required to play at least one game before getting called back up to the NHL. Since Jiri played for Iowa last night, he’s good to Come up. If he hadn’t played, they wouldn’t let him come back up.
It’s meant to stop “paper reassignments” just meant to save money
I think it’s better for the players overall getting recalled. Not just one guy is going back and forth. Missing games on both sides because they don’t actually play in the NHL game usually. And then miss what would have been an AHL too.
While it will cause problems logistically to keep track of who’s been called up and who’s eligible to be called up. For the players it keeps them playing more and travelling less.
I totally forgot about that new rule, we got lucky
This might be a hot take but I kinda like this rule. It might fuck us at some point but it applies to everyone and paper moves are bullshit
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I think you’d have to be dumb to understand it. Crazy rule
Must play AHL games before recall – will create issues for teams that need a quick recall on short notice
Sounds like the new rule prevents teams from sending down players as additional healthy scratches to sit in AHL? I think. It’s a weirdly formatted tweet
If I understand it right, (and take this with a grain of salt), the NHL recently changed the rules to eliminate paper transactions for NHL clubs to send down AHL players to meet the cap restrictions— I.e. sending down Jiricek without actually sending him to Iowa, just keeping him in Minnesota while on paper listing him as playing for Iowa (and the Iowa Wild “scratching” him)
Now when teams send a player to their AHL affiliate, they HAVE to physically play in at least one game for the AHL affiliate before they can be called up to the NHL again.
Anyone sent down to the AHL is required to play at least one game before getting called back up to the NHL. Since Jiri played for Iowa last night, he’s good to Come up. If he hadn’t played, they wouldn’t let him come back up.
It’s meant to stop “paper reassignments” just meant to save money
I think it’s better for the players overall getting recalled. Not just one guy is going back and forth. Missing games on both sides because they don’t actually play in the NHL game usually. And then miss what would have been an AHL too.
While it will cause problems logistically to keep track of who’s been called up and who’s eligible to be called up. For the players it keeps them playing more and travelling less.
I totally forgot about that new rule, we got lucky
This might be a hot take but I kinda like this rule. It might fuck us at some point but it applies to everyone and paper moves are bullshit