Today the Tampa Bay Lightning have reassigned forwards Gabriel Dumont and Adam Erne as well as defenseman Jake Dotchin to the Syracuse Crunch. These transactions may be short lived, however, because all three could be recalled to the Lightning in the next two hours.
So why are these transactions being made? For a player from the NHL to be eligible for the AHL playoffs, they must be on an AHL roster at 3pm today.
With Dotchin and Erne being waiver exempt, they were easy decisions to move down before the deadline without risk of losing them. Dumont required waivers, and was placed on waivers yesterday at noon so that he would clear waivers today and be eligible to be sent to Syracuse.