Recalled/Assigned: Brandon Kozun recalled on emergency basis.

[Joey Hoser]

From the CBA

(i) A player on loan to a Club of any
league affiliated with the League may be recalled from such loan
under emergency conditions at any time for the duration of the
emergency only following which he must be returned promptly to
the club from which he was recalled.

(ii) Emergency conditions shall be
established when the playing strength of the loaning Club, by
reason of incapacitating injury or illness or by League
suspension to its players is reduced below the level of two (2)
goalkeepers, six (6) defensemen and twelve (12) forwards. Proof
of the existence of the emergency conditions including the
incapacity shall be furnished to the Commissioner of the League
upon request made by him.

...

(b) (i) A Club recalling a Player from a minor
league club, under emergency conditions, must specify on the
transfer form the name of the injured, ill or suspended Player
whom the Player on emergency recall is replacing.

(ii) When an emergency condition
terminates, the Club must submit a transfer form indicating
whether the Player's status has converted to regular recall or
is assigned to his minor league club.

Looks like it has to be an injury.

 

[Warden of the North]

Was he even hurt in the first place?

Could've been a maintenance day.

He certainly is playing like it

 

[Leafs at Knight]

He certainly is playing like it

..for the better part of the year.

Just kind of random to shut him down now. We have been playing meaningless hockey for a couple weeks now.

 

[Cor]

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris 1m1 minute ago View translation
Phil Kessel and Nazem Kadri are absent from #leafs practice. Kadri is sick.


Turn off the alarms everyone. Kadri is just puking

 

[Morguee]

..for the better part of the year.

Just kind of random to shut him down now. We have been playing meaningless hockey for a couple weeks now.

Nonis - Phil, we have a trade offer we are consi....

Phil - My wrist, My wrist I think it is broke.

 

[buttman*]

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris 1m1 minute ago View translation
Phil Kessel and Nazem Kadri are absent from #leafs practice. Kadri is sick.


Turn off the alarms everyone. Kadri is just puking

Alarms? More like cheering at this point. Want as many unheathy bodies as possible for the tank.

 

[Hero]

Two players injured, needed another body for practise it seems.

 

[XxJammingxX]

One thing I noticed is this new management group (looking more at Brandon Pridham) are taking advantage of these things that weren't taken advantage of in the past. Putting players in minors when at home, emergency recalls, etc. Now in the beginning of the season we saw it after almost every home game and road trip. Now I guess the cap space at the deadline is less of an issue (due to us not trading for anyone) so its not done as often.

 

[Slot]

Nonis - Phil, we have a trade offer we are consi....

Phil - My wrist, My wrist I think it is broke.

The real question is did someone throw his track suit in the showers first.

 

[gabeliscious]

The real question is did someone throw his track suit in the showers first.

they threw his oreos int he shower. even worse

 

[Nashville Transplant]

I missed Kozun's last demotion... didn't he score a goal last week? LOL

 

[yubbers]

they threw his oreos int he shower. even worse

What if the shower head had milk coming out of it? That would be like a dream come true!

 

[Al14]

What if the shower head had milk coming out of it? That would be like a dream come true!

Make it chocolate milk, and you've got a deal!

 

[burpsalot]

Best 5vs5 player on the Leafs.

http://stats.hockeyanalysis.com/rat...wards&minutes=50&disp=1&sort=PCT&sortdir=DESC

Stats prove it, it's a FACT, can not be disputed.

 

[Community]

I guess we only had 20 or 21 players still on the active roster before we called up Kozun? Then Kessel/Kadri were sick/injured so we had to call up Kozun to be within 20 players... If he's an emergency call-up, we'll probably have him back in the Marlies by the time we play our next game (although he deserves to be in the NHL, kid's a workhorse).

 

[crump]

Heard today that Kadri wasn't feeling well and Kessel taking a maintenance day. Maybe Kadri has the flu. Or a mega blockbuster trade coming.

 

[Diatomic]

I missed Kozun's last demotion... didn't he score a goal last week? LOL

Ya, wasn't good for the tank. Had to send him down.

 

[likeabosski]

Best 5vs5 player on the Leafs.

http://stats.hockeyanalysis.com/rat...wards&minutes=50&disp=1&sort=PCT&sortdir=DESC

Stats prove it, it's a FACT, can not be disputed.

Kozun also has the worst corsi on the team for anyone with 50+ mins 5v5.

Kozun is the primary example for why small sample sizes are misleading. Anyone can score 2 points in under 60 minutes of 5v5 play if they get a couple good bounces. The true test is whether they can keep that pace up over a larger sample size of ice time. There are about 20+ times more Corsi events than there are goals on average in the NHL. So Corsi is much, much, much more accurate than goals/points when it comes to evaluating small sample sizes.

 

[Loosie]

I guess we only had 20 or 21 players still on the active roster before we called up Kozun? Then Kessel/Kadri were sick/injured so we had to call up Kozun to be within 20 players... If he's an emergency call-up, we'll probably have him back in the Marlies by the time we play our next game (although he deserves to be in the NHL, kid's a workhorse).

Or there was enough players but not enough forwards.

 

[indigobuffalo]

I believe emergency recalls also mean a player is waiver exempt and Kozun is not waiver exempt, which is why the Kings dealt him to us in the first place...

This would explain the timing as Kessel is down for a maintenance day so that dropped us below 20 players.

This is Nonis micro-managing the salary cap to the absolute highest degree possible, ensuring that players are on the cap the minimum allowable time. What kind of advantage this nets us? I haven't a clue.

Guess it's better that we're doing it than not doing it...

I think this is a form of cap circumvention though, but I don't think it makes enough of a difference over a full season for the NHL to crack down on it.

It's also circumvention of the waiver exemption rule, IMO.