“We’ve seen it with other things, particularly with visors: If the players get used to it in the AHL, then they’re going to want to continue to use it in the NHL, so that’s the theory with the wrist guards and the foot socks that it’s something new and the players have to get used to it,” AHL president and CEO Scott Howson told The Associated Press by phone Tuesday.
Adam Johnson's death from a skate cut to neck in England leads to more NHL talks on cut protection
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Howson said Coachella Valley, co-owned by the Seattle Kraken, and the Henderson Silver Knights, owned and operated by the new Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights, have “raised the bar for everybody” as revenue generators.
Record revenue and attendance has business booming again for the American Hockey League
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