Growler
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- May 16, 2018
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It will be interesting to see what they do. The ECHL has already released their schedule, with a normal start date of mid October. Typically the NHL season starts a week or two before the AHL, and the ECHL a week or two after that, so players can trickle down for camp at each level as rosters are finalized. With the NHL likely to start the next season much later it may be a reverse situation, where players start in the AHL or ECHL and "trickle up" - or both minor leagues might be much more reliant on free agents and not getting NHL contnracted players, or players signed to AHL deals by the NHL club. Or maybe they end up revising and starting later too.
How on earth can the ECHL survive this? Honest question.