I was starting to wonder about the roster sizes myself with so many teams carrying extra players and seemingly recalling and demoting them at will. To be honest, I don't have a true recollection of what the rules were, but I have this vague notion that the roster limit was 24 players (excluding injuries) and you had a 48-hour window to reduce the roster if you went over the number.
That would fit the Flames' scenario here where they recall Fleury to get to 25 and then demote Churla to return to 24, but it's equally likely that I'm hallucinating after 6 weeks in quarantine and imagining the whole thing.
Also, in the two hours since I posted the game 39 report, two people have private messaged me inquiring about the Theoren Fleury rookie card shown.
That card DOES NOT exist, I created it myself just for this post because I liked the picture and it worked symmetrically side-by-side with the genuine Sakic card. Call off the search party, it's not some rare, hard to find treasure.
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