AHL Clear Day 2012
Photo by Kyle Mace
Today is the day we find out who will be on the roster for the remainder of the season. For those of you unfamiliar with AHL Clear Day, here is the explanation directly from the AHL.
Only those players listed on a team’s Clear Day roster are eligible to compete in the remainder of the AHL regular season and in the 2012 Calder Cup Playoffs, unless emergency conditions arise as a result of recall, injury or suspension.
Teams may also add signed junior players or players on amateur tryout contracts after Clear Day, but only once their respective junior or college seasons are complete.
Those listed in the 22 available spots are the ones that will be able to play. If there is an injury or one of the players on the roster is called up to Washington, that spot will be filled in by a non-roster player. Those players are traditionally called the “Black Aces”. They stay in Hershey and practice with the team.
So who makes the cut?
In the past Doug Yingst has been very savvy in his roster that is turned in to the league. Of note, Keith Aucoin and Dmitry Orlov are both eligible to be on the roster thanks to being assigned to Hershey at the NHL trade deadline.
Let’s see how close I am:
- Braden Holtby
- Dany Sabourin
- Patrick McNeill
- Kevin Marshall
- Dmitry Orlov
- Patrick Wellar
- Julien Brouillette
- Thomas Kundratek
- Sean Collins
- Boyd Kane
- Andrew Carroll
- Keith Aucoin
- Chris Bourque
- Graham Mink
- Jacob Micflikier
- Christian Hanson
- Ryan Potulny
- Kyle Greentree
- Garrett Mitchell
- Cody Eakin
- Mike Carmen
- D.J. King