U see this in alot of the real life NHL but i was wondering, if a player u drafted in ehm 07 and his team doesn't make the junior playoffs and hes 19 yrs old can you sign him say like right now in like march or april and assign him down to your farm team like real NHL teams are doing right now with their prospects?

I've never done it as an NHL GM as I don't usually pay attention to how my prospects junior teams are doing. However, I was running a junior team and just as I was about to start my first playoff series, my best player was signed by the NHL team that drafted him. He never came back to my junior team, and I never won a game in that playoff series.

That's weird because most NHL teams will not remove a CHL (WHL, OHL, QMJHL) player when their team is making a run at the memorial cup. The NHL teams usually feel that the experience gained from being involved in a cup run will greatly improve their development.
I do hate it when my overage players are stripped off my roster by ECHL teams come playoff time though.

i had my multi award winnig goalie snapped off me by WBS of the AHL just before the playoffs after he set the record for most wins in a season in the OHL. i was not ammused

That is when I take control of WBS and reassign him to the OHL team ...Oh, the then resign WBS after your through the playoff push.

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Originally posted by 1br0ll1n:
That is when I take control of WBS and reassign him to the OHL team ...Oh, the then resign WBS after your through the playoff push.

heh! I suppose this is fair game if it isn't supposed to happen this way in real life.

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Originally posted by 1br0ll1n:
That is when I take control of WBS and reassign him to the OHL team ...Oh, the then resign WBS after your through the playoff push.

while i didn't think of that. i didn't think you could reasign players to juniors fromm an ahl team

doesn't matter anyway, won the memorial cup the year after anyway