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Originally Posted by edslunch
Do players on 9 game tryouts count against the 23 man roster? If so, someone would need to be cut to make room for Bennett. Otherwise they just need to find another chair in the press box and decide who to scratch.
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I believe the answer is yes and yes.
1 MIKAEL BACKLUND C
2 SAM BENNETT C
3 BRANDON BOLLIG L
4 LANCE BOUMA C
5 PAUL BYRON C
6 JOE COLBORNE C
7 JOHNNY GAUDREAU L
8 CURTIS GLENCROSS L
9 MARKUS GRANLUND C
10 JIRI HUDLER C
11 DAVID JONES R
12 BRIAN MCGRATTAN R
13 SEAN MONAHAN C
14 MASON RAYMOND L
15 DEVIN SETOGUCHI R
16 MATT STAJAN C
17 TJ BRODIE D
18 DERYK ENGELLAND D
19 MARK GIORDANO D
20
COREY POTTER D - IR
21 KRIS RUSSELL D
22 LADISLAV SMID D
23 DENNIS WIDEMAN D
24 RAPHAEL DIAZ D
25 JONAS HILLER G
26 KARRI RAMO G
Take away Potter from the list because he's injured, it still looks like there are 25 players left (including Bennett). As far as I can see they still don't have room to keep Bennett here for a tryout.... and even if they don't they still have one player too many on the roster come Wednesday.
What am I missing?
Edit: I just saw the solution... Send Granlund back to the AHL and Bennet back to his OHL team. Now the Flames would be down to 23 players. If they keep Bennett here for a 9 game tryout, someone else, other than Potter, would have to go on IR or be waived to the minors.