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Originally Posted by getbak
Regarding the preseason "veteran" rule, any player who played at least 30 NHL games last season or has played at least 100 total NHL games meets the "veteran" requirement. As does any player chosen in the first round of the most-recent draft.
Using that criteria, Andersson, Kylington, and Mangiapane all qualify because they played more than 30 games last season. Dube and Valimaki just missed the 30 game cutoff.
Almost every player on the Flames' NHL roster will qualify as veterans under this rule.
Froese and Davidson also qualify under the 100 games played threshold. Assuming NHL playoff games count toward the 100 game count, Quine also qualifies.
Pelletier qualifies as a 2019 first rounder.
Without any PTOs, the Flames should have no problem meeting the 8 veteran requirement for any preseason game, even the split-squad.
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Not so sure this is right. BUt even so, they need to have warm bodies for preseason game, especially split-squad. Typically the Flames give a bunch of rest to vets (thinking Gio, Hamonic, Backlund, Ryan, etc) and guys nursing minor hurts, so it doesn't hurt to be able to have PTO guys to step in.
I also don't think you keep young guys who aren't making the team for this purpose (like Pelletier or Quine). Those guys get sent down to start AHL camp.