Also Stefan Liv. Great SEL guy but during his AHL stint was probably closer to the ECHL (played 3 games with the Toledo Storm) than the NHL.
Interestingly, Liv's path to the ECHL went: AHL => NHL => ECHL => AHL
The Red Wings re-assigned him to Toledo from the NHL club where he joined them for a 3 games in 3 nights east coast road trip, where he started all 3 games, before sending him back to GR.
IIRC, Liv's failure to catch on with the Wings was kind of an unfortunate Storm (no pun intended) of factors:
-The Red Wings were loaded with organization depth in goal. When Liv signed, they had Joey MacDonald, Drew MacIntyre and Jimmy Howard all in the system at the pro level. They actually traded away MacIntyre to make room for Liv.
-The team brought back Hasek as starter, and at the start of that season they were absolutely paranoid about the 41YO (who missed the last chunk of the previous season with an injury) tweaking something by playing back to back nights, or going in off the bench. To remedy this, they kept MacDonald on the NHL roster basically just to sit on the bench if Osgood started instead of Hasek. So with three goalies on the NHL club, it meant they weren't going to need to recall a goalie from the farm as much, which meant Liv would likely be stuck platooning with Howard for most of the year. Live was actually recalled for 6 games early in the season by the Red Wings when Osgood went down, but it was just to take MacDonald's spot as #3. He was a healthy scratch for 4 games and sat on the bench on the 2nd of back to backs when MacDonald started.
-The Griffins had a down year after Kopecky, Hudler and Filppula graduated to the NHL team and a lot of the AAAA guys from 05-06 moved on.
Had Liv hung around in NA for another season, he might've adjusted to the smaller ice and had a better shot as the Wings had lost MacDonald and only carried two goalies for 07/08. They ended up needing a cheap back up for 08/09, which I'm sure Liv would've gotten consideration for with a strong 07/08 in the AHL. However, I'm sure he made much better money returning to Europe than he would've playing another year mostly in the AHL.