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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
It's crazy. I don't spend a lot of time (zero actually) listening to Edmonton media, but if this isn't a huge deal up there, they are not paying attention or are intentionally ignoring this. With Koekoek gone, they are still ~227k above the cap with 12 forwards and 7 d-men. If the season started tomorrow as far as I can tell, they'd have to send down Broberg as he's the only guy left who wouldn't have to go through waivers. They would be compliant but have zero players in the stands. Oh, and Holloway is forced to play in the minors as well. Unless they have someone else who can go on LTIR? Either way, it's beautiful.
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Plus, from what I can tell, the oilers have to have Broberg and Holloway on the opening day roster in order to not need cap room for their performance bonuses. Seems like if they call them up if they were not on the opening day roster they would have to have the room for their bonuses (800+k for Broberg, 500k for Holloway), which could mean losing the ability to call them up through the season. They also don't seem to understand the LTIR up there, as some fans are talking about just putting guys on there for a game or two, while ignoring its a 10 game/24 day minimum the players must miss.