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The roster is expanded. You don't have to send anyone down, and you have LTIR space.
The limitation you have is you only receive 4 non-emergency callups after the trade deadline. If you use 1 and send that player down, you can't just call that player up. You'd have to use another of your non-emergency callups to bring them back up.
That is why, traditionally, once a guy is called up after the TDL, they're here to stay. That wouldn't be a problem if your coach played them. Otherwise, you could find yourself in a situation where say you've called up Jason Robertson, and he eventually is just not playing at the NHL or AHL level because the coach doesn't want to sit Janmark/Cogliano/etc. when everyone is healthy.
The coach, as much as Nill, is fighting for his job, and more often than not, they tend to become even more conservative and tight as things start to come apart. Look at Hitchcock in 2018.
Thanks. I forgot about the expanded roster.