As Ray noted in the comments, Jake Gannon not only signed an ECHL deal with Utah but got the ‘C’ for the Grizzlies as well.
Chris Botta tweeted about this report from Moncton, in which Danny Flynn confirms that Moncton will take Kirill Kabanov back from the Islanders if the kid doesn’t make the big club. (The “age eligible” line in there, as we’ve discussed often in the past, is slightly off the mark.)
When a reader learns the news from the corrections, what does that say about newspapers? An interesting piece.
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Alice and Andre are getting along great, but I wanna see that nature show.
And RIP, Dan Rostenkowski and Ted Stevens*, two guys with crushing ends to their careers, and David L. Wolper.
*-And of course the other victims of the crash
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Mike,
I was wondering, since Gannon has an ECHL contract with Utah,does that also make him Calgary/Abbotsford property or can he work out a deal with any AHL team, sort of like when Sixsmith played for Milwaukee for a spell the last couple of years? Thanks.
Comment by Jeff — August 12th, 2010 @ 11:01 am
On an ECHL deal, he can PTO as he pleases, much like Sixsmith, yes.
Comment by Michael Fornabaio — August 12th, 2010 @ 11:15 am
Hey Mike, sorry for missing it, but could you explain the “age eligible” thing, how is this line off the mark?
Comment by Doug — August 13th, 2010 @ 8:41 am
It’s not that he’s “too young to play in the AHL,” which is the off-the-mark part. It’s that he has played Canadian major junior. If the Islanders decide not to keep him in the NHL, they have to offer him back to his junior team (Moncton), and his junior team has to decline to take him, before the Islanders can assign him to Bridgeport. (Of course, he’d theoretically have to be signed first before that would happen.)
Players NOT from Canadian major junior? They just have to be 18 to play in the AHL. Examples off the top of my head: Oleg Kvasha, Nicklas Bergfors, Artem Anisimov, Anton Klementyev, Kyle Okposo.
Comment by Michael Fornabaio — August 13th, 2010 @ 1:13 pm