The Kingslayer
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For the record I want Bo on this team. You all know how I feel about Ian Cole. Bo still needs to earn it.
I’ve been wondering this too. Like a 3-5 man reserve list. These guys travel and practice with the team but are not allowed to enter a game unless somebody from their listed 23 man active roster is deemed unfit to play.I wonder if the league doesn't look at potentially expanding NHL rosters to 25. Teams would still have to be cap compliant with said rosters, but with AHL and other junior league uncertainty, it could allow teams to carry a couple extra bodies and younger guys who don't have anywhere else to play at the moment.
It would also help limit the team movements of players, and with a condensed schedule it allows teams to more easily rotate players in the lineup and deal with injuries better.
I wonder if the league doesn't look at potentially expanding NHL rosters to 25. Teams would still have to be cap compliant with said rosters, but with AHL and other junior league uncertainty, it could allow teams to carry a couple extra bodies and younger guys who don't have anywhere else to play at the moment.
It would also help limit the team movements of players, and with a condensed schedule it allows teams to more easily rotate players in the lineup and deal with injuries better.
So yeah no worries about opportunity if the player is ready. Byram just has to show he’s ready. Lucky for him he’s got a full camp to do it. Nothing to see here.Sam Girard’s first game as an Av he played 21:55 after coming over in a trade.
Hell, Makar got 15 minutes in his first game which was a playoff game just several days after playing in college.
Two of those guys were absolutely ready for the opportunities they were given but they never “earned” it. Neither even took part in a training camp with the Avs and were given big roles from the moment they first touched the ice.
That's great I hope he has a great WJC and walks into camp with that big dick energy and gets a roster spot.With the NHL season likely starting in late January or possibly even later a guy like Byram should have a massive head start on an NHL roster anyway having just finished a WJC just prior to walking into NHL training camp when most of the guys will have only played informal team skates/captains skates as any type of organized hockey.
Almost nobody will be able to have 25 guys on their roster and be under the cap. It's not going happen unless the cap goes up a few million.I wonder if the league doesn't look at potentially expanding NHL rosters to 25. Teams would still have to be cap compliant with said rosters, but with AHL and other junior league uncertainty, it could allow teams to carry a couple extra bodies and younger guys who don't have anywhere else to play at the moment.
It would also help limit the team movements of players, and with a condensed schedule it allows teams to more easily rotate players in the lineup and deal with injuries better.
I agree, but the pressure on the Avs to be good won't disappear whenever the next season starts. Hench has pointed out that as one of the longest tenured coaches in the NHL, Bednar will be under a lot of pressure when the season starts not to falter early.It was the Playoffs. Not every rookie is Cale Makar that can start his NHL career in the middle of a playoff series.
Ditto this. He's going to have some rookie mistakes happen, it's part of the game he plays and he needs to learn what he can and cannot do with his talent level in the NHL. Either now or next season or the season after that, he has to do that, may as well do it now.If Byram shows he's physically ready to handle the NHL then give him a spot. Yes, give. Just put him on the bottom pair and let him work through the rookie mistakes. If there are a bunch of back to backs then rotate players in and out. This is your 19 year old 4th overall pick, not some college FA or guy on a PTO.
Maybe they feel differently but I don't consider the WHL an option for him, even if they somehow find a way to play games. So that leaves Europe if he can get cleared? Send him to Sweden for a few months and let that team handle his minutes and development?
I doubt the NHLPA would sign off on expanded rosters. Furthers the escrow debt for future seasons. Assuming a nice round 1m, that is 62m in salary and anther 124m in HRR that would need to be made up.
I think they may be willing if the AHL doesn't restart. I wouldn't be surprised if they allow a 3-5 player reserve roster where they are getting paid their AHL salary and a paper transaction would still be needed for them to play to bump them up to their NHL salary and vice-versa.
We saw how many injuries there were in the playoff bubble for all teams, it's safer to allow these reserve players to travel with the team rather than fly them in if they need a call-up.
Almost nobody will be able to have 25 guys on their roster and be under the cap. It's not going happen unless the cap goes up a few million.
Over 20?That just isn't even close to being true.
There's over 20 teams in the league right now that could easily run a 25 man roster and be under the cap.
Over 20?
Once teams have signed their guys there won't be almost any space. The number of teams that can roll with 25 players is not even close to 20. You also have to take into account that some have a budget and won't spend to the cap no matter what.
If Byram shows he's physically ready to handle the NHL then give him a spot. Yes, give. Just put him on the bottom pair and let him work through the rookie mistakes. If there are a bunch of back to backs then rotate players in and out. This is your 19 year old 4th overall pick, not some college FA or guy on a PTO.
Maybe they feel differently but I don't consider the WHL an option for him, even if they somehow find a way to play games. So that leaves Europe if he can get cleared? Send him to Sweden for a few months and let that team handle his minutes and development?
Over 20?
Once teams have signed their guys there won't be almost any space. The number of teams that can roll with 25 players is not even close to 20. You also have to take into account that some have a budget and won't spend to the cap no matter what.
Yes, well over 20.
Internal budgets are something else entirely and quite frankly don't matter at all. If they expanded to 25 player rosters teams wouldn't be required to have a 25 team roster it would just give them the option.
But fact is at least 20 teams could quite easily run a 25 team roster if they wanted too.
Nah, it's a shit show.I would rather prefer us send Byram to Russia to play in KHL, preferably on one of the top KHL team instead of Sweden. Sign a one year contract in the KHL and then come back to play for the Avs as soon as KHL playoffs are over.