Reading here that the relocated Stockton players may not get a lot of games in.
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19. I really feel for the AHL, its team and its players. It’s a financial mess and an enormous challenge for everyone involved. Last summer, the Professional Hockey Players’ Association (which represents AHL and ECHL players) agreed to pro-rated salaries for this season. Back then, the league was talking about 56 games with 31 teams. Now we know three are out, and no one will play 56 — with the Canadian teams coming in as low as 24. Ontario has not yet given permission for Belleville or Toronto, and Stockton’s team looks like it’s headed to Calgary. One player said he was looking at the possibility of $30,000 pay for four months work, which he said he couldn’t afford to do.
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Maybe the team should loan some of the prospects back to European teams?
The 24 game season has to hurt the AHL-only contracted guys, although I guess some of them could go to the ECHL.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...came-together/