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Originally Posted by lazypucker
Is that still in effect that teams can only make 4 recalls from the minors from now till the end of the season?
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Yes; but ‘emergency recalls’ don't count. (See devo22's post above.)
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Fact maybe a little vague for me, but I remembered a few years ago where the Flames had run out of warm bodies (the 15-skater fiasco under Darryl)
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That wasn't a problem about recalls; the team could have made as many emergency recalls as necessary. The problem, rather, was that there was no cap space to pay the recalled players. The way the CBA was written, you could put an injured player on LTIR and get cap relief, but only if the player was going to miss at least 10 regular-season games. Robyn Regehr was injured with only 9 games left in the season, so the team could not get any cap relief. If he had been injured just one game earlier, there would have been no problem and the team could have called up all the replacements it needed.
It was a thoroughly stupid situation, and the problem has been corrected in the new CBA. Article 50.10(e) provides that even if a team has no cap room, it may make emergency callups to ice a roster of 18 skaters and 2 goalies, provided that each called-up player is paid no more than $100,000 over league minimum. If that rule had existed at the time, again, the situation would never have arisen.