Flyers Vs Devils - League - 19th March 22
- Thread starter James
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We’ve currently got 21 players signed. Thats 19 skaters, two netminders. The rules state you can have 28 players. On any game night only 19 players are allowed to play. So you sit 9 guys every game. That leaves 9 guys to cover Covid issues, injury, illness etc etc etc. Not with 21, your playing every guy, every game. It’s the Bowns syndrome, rely on the minimum, which is fine, l couldn’t give a monkies, it’s not my club to run. When other teams have extra capacity, their potentially in a better position to compete. Like l said if you are intent to challenge, realistically you need to keep up with the competition at least. Financially it’s unrealistic for Cardiff to do this, your paying wages to players not playing and they want to play.
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If that’s the case, who was stupid enough to believe that was workable & agreed to it. On average a team going into the last 3 or 4 months will be carrying at least 3 injured players, probably more, add extra fatigue because of the short benches. That means EIHL clubs potentially looking for 10 plus players, at this time of the year, to play a few weeks or a month maybe. Really..........
My understanding was that although 28 could be registered over the course off the season, the total registered at one time could only be 19. So if a player is injured they go on IR and come off the 19, but are on the 28. In this basis having a spare, who to count as signed must be registered, and having 19 in the squad already goes against my understanding of the rules.
19 on the roster maximum at any time. Hypothetically you could carry spares but everyone counts on the salary cap unless they are on long term injury. So practically speaking you can’t carry any spares unless your 19 man roster is well under the salary cap. So you can debate all you want about whether all teams have abided by those rules but those are the rules.
If that’s the case why are teams staying within the cap. For me it seems there’s a rule that has been incorrectly interpreted by some clubs. Maybe behind closed doors that’s been acknowledged and it’s too late to do anything, no rules broken, no chance for clubs to increase rosters. Unless the league has an independent mediator who can administer penalties, it is, as they say, what it is.........some clubs obviously wanted to win much more than others.
Please.....give it a rest now, we know what you think about this team for this season, almost every topic you post in goes on and on about it and not one member from what I have seen has agreed with you but you are entitled to your opinion but the repetition is getting boring, it's almost like you keep saying it until everyone agrees, which they won't.
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