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With just around 6 hours until the lockout begins, it's not surprising to see teams assign players to their AHL affiliates. I'm pretty sure that only players that have signed 2-way contracts (i.e. contracts that specify terms for playing in both the NHL team and it's AHL affiliate) can actually be sent down, so it could be that Tambellini had a feeling that a lockout would happen, and thus deliberately put that clause into the contracts of a lot of the players that he signed within the last couple of seasons. That
could explain why so many Oilers got sent down.
Here in Peg Sheety, on the other hand, most of our "main guys" only have one-way contracts, and thus cannot be sent/assigned to play for our AHL affiliate. Our only "main guy" being sent down is Burmistrov, and most of the rest of them would likely have been assigned to the AHL anyway.
Jets assign 13 players to St. John's IceCaps
Saturday, 15.09.2012 / 3:04 PM / News Articles
The Winnipeg Jets announced today they have assigned 13 players to the Jets’ American Hockey League affiliate, the St. John’s IceCaps.
The players assigned to St. John’s include Alexander Burmistrov, Chris Carrozzi, Ben Chairot, Patrice Cormier, Jason Gregoire, Carl Klingberg, Julian Melchiori, Eric O’Dell, Will O’Neill, Edward Pasquale, Zach Redmond, Cody Sol and Ivan Telegin.
The Jets have also announced they have assigned Mark Scheifele to the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League.
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http://jets.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=641600We also still haven't re-signed Kane yet. Offers have been made, but he and his management are being hella-ass slow in responding. He says he wants to stay with the team, but it makes one wonder if he really does or not...or, if he's just holding out for more money.