ChiHawks10
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Ok...you're right. The AHL and the CHL must have changed their agreement. Used to be that you had to be 20 to play in the AHL per the agreement...it was put in place to help keep the CHL solvent and keep the marquee players in their league unless in the NHL. Helped keep the teams from being pillaged and plundered of it's NHL draft picks by the NHL teams who then would assign them to the AHL.
We've been talking about him on the Hawks board on and off all summer. Personally, I think they have plans for him to make the team so long as he can compete physically. I think they're banking on his offensive capability to ease the pain of losing Panarin on that front. We'll have to see, but I think he may stick on the Hawks. He may bounce back and forth a little bit, depending on his play, if he looks shaky at all, etc. But I think he definitely gets in a good chunk of games with the big club. Hopefully his play in Erie translates well.