February - last edited February
AHL is fun in the first season when your team has a mix of signed NHL players (playing in the AHL) and AHL only players. In subsequent seasons you should be able to sign a free agent to an AHL only contract. Otherwise, as you progress in franchise mode your AHL roster become pretty lean if you can only have players on your AHL team who have NHL contracts. Hope I'm missing something, but if I am I can't figure it out.
February
If you don't have enough players on your AHL roster, the game will automatically sign players to AHL contracts to fill the empty spots.
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