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Originally Posted by 3thirty
With the ECHL limits removed due to the draft delay, wondering what GM's think about the AHL roster limits and overagers?
Reason I ask is I signed 4-5 draft overagers and if they don't get a decent draft slot I'd normally cut them, just as you would with the excess ECHLers after the NHL draft.
It's not really any different IMO if we are talking about draft overagers, not entire AHL rosters, that we use their NHL draft value to factor in to keeping or not.
Someone being proactive and signing them in the offseason before the draft and then cutting ones that aren't drafted isn't any different than drafting 20 guys and cutting the ones who don't go high in the NHL draft IMO
Thoughts?
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It's a good question. The implications of doing an unlimited roster for the AHL until the NHL draft has a broader impact than just the specific case of overagers. It would allow GM's to take advantage of the extra roster space, using the NHL draft as a bit of an excuse.
Without thinking through things too much, it might be worth considering having those specific overagers moved to the ECHL for now, having those guys frozen (ie can't be traded), then when the draft comes, they move back to the AHL and the team has to make a decision as to whether to keep them or cut them.
The challenge for the CPHL team is we would be in the middle of the season and it would mean potentially having to make a bunch of moves around that time...but I think this might be the simplest way to deal with this?
Just putting a thought out there...don't know if it is right or not.