No that is not my interpretation. Anyone picking him of the first waiver would have to send him through waivers to loan him to the AHL. But since there is no such rule for anyone who hasn’t obtained this kind of player through waivers I can’t see why he wouldn’t be threated like any other player on an ELC?
The result is that anyone picking him must plan to play him in the NHL, they could never get him to the AHL. If we sign him we are the only one that possibly can get him to the AHL.
This is getting close to billable hours,
, but we could safely get Tkachev to the AHL by making a deal with the top team in the waiver draft.
This is how it works, we sign him and send him through waivers. The top team in the waiver drafts takes him, and cannot send him to the AHL since they acquired him through waivers, but if they trade him to us we can. In this position we have acquired him through a trade and can send him through waivers.