Dr Love
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Now there's something I think we didn't know, that you can call a guy up for the game and then send him back right after the game and save yourself some money. And luckily for the Flyers, the Phantoms play across the street and practice in the next rink over. But like Clarke said, for some teams, it's going to be a big problem.So what that means for Flyers rookie center R.J. Umberger is that while he is playing games with the Flyers, he is practicing with the Phantoms. "It's not that he can't, he could," Flyers general manager Bob Clarke said. "But when you're called up, the money from his contract goes against the salary cap and in [Umberger's] case that's close to $5,000 a day. If it's 1 day, that doesn't make a whole lot of difference, but if it's 20 days, or there are five different players you use that way for a month, it adds up.
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"Where it will add up is when your farm club is in Utah or something and to get a kid up it's a 3-day trip for 1 day [of playing]. Then you've got 3 days. We wouldn't be able to send him back if he was going to be here for a few more so that would add up pretty quickly. In no time at all we would be up to a couple of hundred-thousand dollars."