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Old 01-11-2021, 11:06 AM   #101
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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18 View Post
It’s quite possible this is all just for cap flexibility too.

With the taxi squad it actually makes a lot of sense just to carry a 20 man roster. And by waiving guys you have more flexibility on how that works.

Since cap space is calculated daily and accrues up this could be a way to create some deadline space for an add. You put your 13th forward and 7th dman on the taxi squad to have a lower daily hit and keep the cap space.

It’s a risk that they might get taken on waivers but lots of teams are going to be doing this, so doing it now likely lowers that risk.
That makes me feel better about waiving Kylington. Still don’t understand why Nordstrom (or Simon) makes it over Ryan
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