Question for contract geeks...

[Bizzle McDizzle]

form an article about signing Jeff Skinner...

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RALEIGH, NC – Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has signed center Jeff Skinner to a three-year, entry-level contract. Beginning with his first full professional season, the contract will pay Skinner $810,000 per season at the NHL level or $67,500 per season at the minor-league level. Skinner receives a $270,000 signing bonus as a part of the contract...

...Under the guidelines of the NHL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, Skinner may still be reassigned to his junior hockey team, Kitchener, but may not be assigned to the Hurricanes’ American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers.

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That last part there... so even though he signed a 2 way, his only choices are to either make the big club or sent back to juniors? No AHL?
Am I reading that right?

somebody please 'splain dis to me... me confooosed.

 

[Destroydacre]

form an article about signing Jeff Skinner...

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RALEIGH, NC – Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has signed center Jeff Skinner to a three-year, entry-level contract. Beginning with his first full professional season, the contract will pay Skinner $810,000 per season at the NHL level or $67,500 per season at the minor-league level. Skinner receives a $270,000 signing bonus as a part of the contract...

...Under the guidelines of the NHL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, Skinner may still be reassigned to his junior hockey team, Kitchener, but may not be assigned to the Hurricanes’ American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers.

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That last part there... so even though he signed a 2 way, his only choices are to either make the big club or sent back to juniors? No AHL?
Am I reading that right?

somebody please 'splain dis to me... me confooosed.

If you are drafted out of the CHL, you have to be 20 years old before you can play in the AHL. If a CHL player is under 20 it's either make the NHL team or play in junior. It's an agreement between the CHL and the NHL that allows most of the top end talent under the age of 20 to stay in the league so the level of play is better.

 

[dash]

It's due to his age and playing hockey in the OHL, biz, Jeff is 18 and the CHL has an agreement with the AHL that 18 year olds aren't eligible to play in the AHL.

Edit: Destroy beat me to it and he knows his stuff ;-)

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

I knew some of you smart fuckers would be able to 'splain it.

Thanks fellas. Makes sense now.