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Earth2Fire

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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 15 at 11:31 a.m.
Thread: 2024-25 - Isles - 5mil for a LW-UFA - Increase estimate 87mil
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Earth2Fire</b></div><div>Is there a rule explicitly stopping it? From what I understand 20 is the minimum. Eventually injuries will create enough cap space for another 2 players.</div></div>

There's no rule against it, but it becomes an issue when you have someone who has a nagging injury that needs a night or two off - perfect example right now is Noah Dobson. You *could* put him on LTIR and free up the cap space to call someone up, but LTIR specifically states that a player must be out for 10 game or 24 days, whichever comes first. So you either have 8 extra games of Grant Hutton playing every night, or you find the way to have a couple of healthy scratches that you can rotate in and out of the lineup as necessary.