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WTF is a taxi squad

Created by: Hypernova227
Team: 2020-21 Tampa Bay Lightning
Initial Creation Date: Dec. 27, 2020
Published: Dec. 27, 2020
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Usually scratches count against your cap, right?

But league mins and ELCs don’t count towards your cap if they are on your “Taxi Squad” .

So you can put all your scratched players on there instead, so you can save cap, right?
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Dec. 27, 2020 at 8:51 p.m.
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Honestly easiest thing to do here is google it. I would more think of it is buried players that can be called up in a real hurry.
Dec. 27, 2020 at 8:54 p.m.
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My understanding it would be like a call up, so if you’re injured player is just day to day you won’t have the cap room to fill the lineup spot
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Dec. 27, 2020 at 8:56 p.m.
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Edited Dec. 27, 2020 at 9:01 p.m.
You can’t use the practice squad or taxi squad like you can scratches they can’t play while you’re on the taxi squad today and you’re playing tomorrow and then you’re back on the taxi squad it doesn’t work that way when you go from playing to the taxi squad you got a clear waivers
Dec. 27, 2020 at 8:56 p.m.
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It's like the players have been waived to the AHL (unless no waivers with ELC of course), but because there is no AHL for the moment anyway and constantly bringing in players from a separate place is a bad idea for preventing COVID, they just stay with the team bubble. So, no, it is not like a regular scratch who stays safely in the roster without exposure.
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Dec. 27, 2020 at 9:22 p.m.
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lool wtf is Chara doing there?
Dec. 27, 2020 at 10:26 p.m.
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So a normal roster is a 23 man roster, and each of the players counts against the cap. So if a player gets dinged up and needs a game off, they can be scratched and one of the 3 normally scratched players can take his spot. A similar thing happens if a player is sent to the Injured reserve (IR) however now that that player is out for an extended period of time, his roster spot is freed up so that another player can be called up from the AHL (or in this season the taxi squad) to fill out the 23 man roster. However the IR players cap still counts towards the cap, so if that called up player puts the team over the salary cap, he can’t be brought up.

This means that if you only have the capspace for a 20 man roster and a player gets injured, another player cannot be brought up from the AHL (or taxi squad) to fill his spot. The only way you can get cap relief for an injured player is if it is a long term injury (LTIR) which I believe is a minimum of 10 missed games?

So with a roster of only 20 players and no capspace, a taxi squad does not help you one bit. You still won’t be able to ‘call up’ and play those players.

At least this is my understanding of how it works. Please let me know if I’m mistaken.

Though, to be honest I don’t know how a positive covid test for a bunch of players would work. If say 6 players test positive, they will likely only be out for 2 weeks, which wouldn’t be enough for LTIR relief. To me it would be unreasonable for the league to expect a team to have enough capspace to fill out that many extra spots on the roster, so there may be some sort of relief for such a situation.
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