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Originally Posted by Freeway
And NHL teams almost never make moves with the AHL club in mind.
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They don't need to make NHL moves. Heat acquired Yann Sauve, who was playing in the ECHL, last season at the AHL trade deadline (which is a week after the NHL trade deadline).
Also last season Charlotte and Bakersfield made a trade where they swapped players on AHL rosters, but Carolina and Edmonton retained the NHL rights to the players. Oilers assigned Andrew Miller to Charlotte and Canes assigned Zach Boychuk to Bakersfield in exchange. In the end not much change to the NHL teams as the Oilers could still recall Miller and the Canes could still recall Boychuk but the moves were made to better the AHL clubs.
The Canes and Canucks also did the same thing last season with Blair Jones and TJ Hensick.