Quoting: RipNasty
When someone is injured they get an emergency call up and when someone gets hurt longer they can go on LTIR and they have space to bring up spares. It's a temporary issue.
It all depends on who gets injured and for how long, theres not a lot of upside in the AHL for them. A 20 man roster works fine if the injuries are real short and they're not key guys.
If a top 8 forward or top 4 dman gets injured, whos the callup? And if its one of the big 4, sure it helps to get cap space for later but do they have the assets at hand for a replacement?
A short term 20 man roster is fine but its far from ideal and shouldn;t be the goal, and waiting for an injury shouldn;t be one either. And emergency callup works for a game, then its IR or LTIR which is like 8-10 games or a matter of weeks, but is that what we want to happen?
As far as lafferty or timmins going before Jarnkrot, fine but both probably have to go to create the same space, and again what quality is the replacement?
I get what you're saying, I just think we've seen this before, running so close to the cap with subpar replacements and in a year they have to go for it with half the team expiring I just don;t think its wise to go with so little depth and wear out the top players, because the bottom of the roster is poor.