Hi All,
This is my first post at LGW and I hate to be so negative with it, but this isn't possible. Tavares cannot sign with an AHL team at his age. If this rumour is true, Ferguson is only doing this for the headlines. Unless he's a total moron (which granted, is probable) he should know all this.
As a few people have already mentioned, this rumour looks like its pretty much BS. The reason no other GMs have tried anything like this before is because they are busy doing their jobs and not wasting time trying to use loopholes that don't exist.