Recalled/Assigned: Laine placed on IR, Julian Melchiori recalled

[YWGinYYZ]

Is there any reason to not put a player on IR if you know he's going to be out for seven+ days? You do get a healthy player in to the roster and there's the cap benefit too (probably meaningless in this case though).

There's no cap benefit to placing a player on IR, only LTIR, and even that only allows you to exceed the cap by the player's salary so it only comes into effect if you're at or near the cap. This is my basic understanding of it - our resident CBA expert Holden probably has more details than this.

 

[Lempo]

There's no cap benefit to placing a player on IR, only LTIR, and even that only allows you to exceed the cap by the player's salary so it only comes into effect if you're at or near the cap. This is my basic understanding of it - our resident CBA expert Holden probably has more details than this.

Oh damn, I forgot there was the LTIR. And didn't really thing there are cap considerations in the team. Though, does Ehlers have bonuses agreed on his ELC? He'd hit some if there was.

edit: CapFriendly has Ehlers at $650.000 for performance bonuses this season.

 

[Deif]

If Laine is not going on this trip, maybe they just want to give Melchiori a look.

There's not much to look at.

 

[alchemyindex]

There's not much to look at.

Nope. I don't think he's an upgrade on Chiarot in any way, which is saying something.

 

[Calendal]

Is there any reason to not put a player on IR if you know he's going to be out for seven+ days? You do get a healthy player in to the roster and there's the cap benefit too (probably meaningless in this case though).

There is no benefit calling up a player until you need to do so.. would just hurt Moose I guess.

 

[pucka lucka]

So why did we sign Brian Strait to a 1 way contract again?

 

[Deedog99]

Wait - where's Stu? Wouldn't he be next in line before Melchiori?

Melchiori is better than chiarot and Stuart. Hopefully he gets a legit shot.

 

[Weezeric]

So why did we sign Brian Strait to a 1 way contract again?

He's a good pro to help the moose?

 

[Lempo]

There is no benefit calling up a player until you need to do so.. would just hurt Moose I guess.

That's a good reason. In that case it doesn't really matter when you put the injured player on IR as you can do it retroactively when you need to.

 

[Gm0ney]

Melchiori is better than chiarot and Stuart. Hopefully he gets a legit shot.

He's barely a competent AHL defenseman...or did I slide into a parallel universe where he's actually good?

 

[blues10]

So why did we sign Brian Strait to a 1 way contract again?

Chevy and the pro scouting staff love him. Coveted him for 3 years. He is developing nicely and should be in the top 16 anytime now.

 

[garret9]

Really, no team should have Chiarot, Stuart, Melchiori, and Strait under contract... yet here we are.

 

[JetsFan815]

Melchiori is better than chiarot and Stuart. Hopefully he gets a legit shot.

He's not. Stu actually might be better than all 3 of Chiarot, Melchiori and Strait, atleast at 5v5. It takes special talent to have not 1, not 2 but 3 d-men worse than Mark Stuart this high on your NHL depth chart, it almost seems like trolling.