With Schneids and Lu bringing the total to 23. If this is the case, we're not choosing Barker over Schroeder, Barker is as good as waived. We're choosing to not expose Ebbett to waivers now and instead dropping Schroeder temporarily until Kesler can be put on LTIR. Then, we will call up Schroeder and not have to place Ebbett on waivers until after Kesler returns. Ebbett remains the 13th forward. (And yes, I do think that Ebbett would be claimed given the awful names having already been claimed).
At that point, yes, we may have to expose Ebbett to waivers, but at the very least it will be after we have Kesler back. Am I off anywhere? I think Gillis's comments match up pretty exactly with this scenario.
The Canucks don't need Kesler on their finalized roster to get him on LTIR. They aren't over the cap, even with Schroeder, so they don't need either Kesler or Booth on their finalized roster because without being over the cap they don't qualify for LTIR.
Right now (excluding Kesler and Booth) the Canucks have 24 players on their roster (13F, 9D, 2G). In order to get under the roster limit today by 2PM, they need to send Schroeder down to the minors or make a trade. In order to bring Schroeder back up, they need to waive someone or have someone be injured enough to go on the IR.
I'm arguing that if they plan on bringing Schroeder back up soon and plan on doing so by waiving someone (i.e. Barker), it makes more sense to waive Barker today, when every team is finalizing their roster and won't have space to simply claim him without making a corresponding move. If they wait even until tomorrow to put a player on waivers, they run the risk of a team suffering an injury in a game and suddenly having a need and roster space for said player.
Based on what you looked up yesterday it seemed to me like they could waive guys anytime during the day (or during business hours anyway) and they would clear within 24 hours. Did I misunderstand or misremember something?
I think the waivers period is always 24 hours (unlike in the previous CBA where it was 48hrs if it happened over the weekend). Unless they've radically changed waivers, usually there is a deadline (noon EST) to place a player on waivers for that day. Given that all the waivers moves over the last week have been in the morning, I'm guessing that's still in place.
Perhaps they're also trying to make a deal with some other team to get rid of one of these guys in return for someone who can be sent down without having to clear waivers. Maybe looking to deal Alberts for someone like that... ? Just a thought.
Yeah, that's entirely possible.