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Originally Posted by Macindoc
I believe that is why they introduced LTI relief in the first place. The Flames did not have any cap room left to replace their injured players, so they simply played without replacements.
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The issue that the Flames ran into was that the LTIR requires a player to miss 24 calendar days and 10 games. The Flames were not able to put any of their injured players on the LTIR at the end of the 2009 season because they needed the player available for the playoffs. Therefore they could not get any cap relief and were required to play with 15 players for the final 2 games of the season.
In 2013 the new CBA added the "Roster Emergency Exception" which more or less meant that a team in the Flames position would only have to play a single game shorthanded. After that one game playing with a short bench they could add any number of players making less than league minimum+100,000k (i.e. less than $850,000 in 2022) to get back up to the 18+2 roster limit without having cap implications.