willy702
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Trying to prepare players for the NHL makes a better league than trying to win? Also to suggest that the best KHL teams like CSKA are "just a little bit better than AHL teams" is utterly ridiculous. Rather the best of the AHL could perhaps survive against the worst of the KHL, Charlotte versus Cherepovets could be reasonably tight, but it's not like the AHL is a league of much parity either.
Total nonsense. Take out the top four teams and their signings are guys that are barely AHL quality. Guys who are in the KHL and Europe because they couldn't get a good AHL contract. And your English must be bad or something because trying to prepare players for the NHL makes AHL WORSE than they could be. Just go check out some of the posts in our team's AHL thread, we have fans of the Chicago team that get mad when players get called up to the NHL. Chicago exists so the NHL team can be better. If the AHL was focused on just winning and not preparing players, they would have far more complex systems and players signed for those systems. Instead AHL teams sign a handful of guys just not quite NHL level and hope they do well enough to get bought out for a profit. Most of those guys would be stars in the KHL.