[Party Elephant]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

And that's the difference between having some wiggle room of not.

If you are right up against the cap (like EDM), then when the flu hits, or whatever, you're hooped and it is going to have an affect on the team, over the course of 82 games.

On the other hand, if you have wiggle room (like CGY), you can simply bump the roster up to 23 during periods where there are some minor injuries, or flu, or slumps, or whatever.

EDM may try to run with 21 out of necessity - which would have consequences.

The Flames may run with 21 during periods where they can get away with it, so they can build more cap space for the deadline. But wouldn't face those consequences because they could go back to 22 or 23 at any time

It's even funnier looking back at those speculative articles from a month ago saying they were going to trade for P.Kane at 75% retained... lol