Canucks purchase the Peoria Rivermen (Post #162)

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The Canucks will only get the players who are Rivermen property. Those players are forwards Derek Nesbitt, Chris Bruton and Sergei Andronov and defenseman Brent Regner.

Nice. Heard good things about Regner in his limited showing with the Wolves.

The other thing to consider is that the AHL definitely wants other teams (like the California ones) to move their affiliates out west too.

The Heat NEVER made sense in Abbotsford. They never were seen as a permanent fixture.

The Canucks having their affiliate in Abbotsford makes tons of sense, and it also makes the AHL out West a permanent item. Look to see more teams now start to move their franchises out to California, Washington over the next several years.

I would hope that, if we do move our farm team to Abby, it would be simultaneous with other Western teams moving theirs out west too. But that's not likely to happen...