Not 100% sure, but every one of our D-man are on 1-way contracts except Aulie, we carry a full roster atm.
To get them both up we'd need to either have a Dman clear waivers and go down or ice 11 forwards and have 10 Dman on the team, I wouldn't mind both of them moving up at this point, but it seems Yzerman doesn't want to go through the hassle of moving multiple pieces around to call them up.
Not that I'd mind losing Lee, Bergeron or Brewer to waiver pickups.
I don't see us bringing anybody else up this year unless there are injuries. We have already taken 3 of the Crunchs best players, we are in 1st place down there and the kids need to make another championship run.
If Boucher is not gonna play Conacher or Palat much just send them down and play Hall, MAB or Mikkelson.
I don't see us sending Lee, Brewer, Mikkelson or Brewer down. We are strong enough down there where we don't need them and it wouldn't benefit any of them if we did. We are better off buying out Brewer in the offseason. Letting MAB walk or get a 7th. Lee we could probably get a 5th for similar to Ellerby from Fla. I would keep him as he is still a serviceable bottom pair player. He may have a really high +/- but he is our top hitting defender, and is a good puck mover if playing with Aulie.
I really think Carle is our worst defender, whoever we put out there with him that suddenly becomes our worst pair. We need to put him with Salo a few games and see what happens.