All players who have am NHL contract and are no longer protected by age have to clear waivers before being assigned to the AHL.
Thanks, so then only way to avoid waivers would be to sign an AHL contract whereby the player is ineligible as a call up. If the player was needed he could sign a new contract of the NHL variety but then would not be allowed to return to the AHL for the remainder of that contract witrout clearing waivers. I suppose Corrado should have made that clear although I figured ELCs had generic qualities, waivers being one of them.
I suppose that means Campbell cleared waivers when he was first assigned to the Marlies.
I didn't accurately perceive the hardships management must go through in finding vets for your AHL club that still have serviceable NHL qualities to best foster player development in one of your clubs most important developmental leagues. The work around from the leafs perspective must be having vets run as the 7th D or 13th forward or press box, while having their own development team in the same city. Having communal training facilities would also help in this regard, allowing their AHL players to gain exposure to there NHL counterparts on a daily basis for practices etc.
Edit: I stated that they could place the vets in the extra skater slot but I should state that the assumption is that they challenge the kids for the main roster slots and are only relegateD to the press box if it is deemed to hamper player develop due to ice time restraints, there will obviously be slots on the 4th line where vets can be placed. Slotting the right type of vets on the same line as the kids is obviously great for there development. Those vets can focus on helped the NHL kids and the depth vets can focus on helping the AHL kids or what have you
