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Originally Posted by 3rd liner
If Vladar is out for the season why is Wolf ‘emergency back-up’? Wouldn’t he need to be on the bench as regular back-up? I might just be misunderstanding the terminology…. Maybe something to do with them wanting Wolf to play for the wranglers?
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Yeah, it's a misunderstanding of the terminology. He's not the emergency backup, he's on a emergency recall.
Basically, after the deadline, teams can only make 4 "regular" recalls from the AHL, but they can make unlimited "emergency" recalls. To qualify as an emergency recall, the team must be in a situation where they don't have at least 12 forwards, 6 defencemen, or 2 goalies who are all healthy to play.
Because of Markstrom's injury, the Flames only had one healthy goalie, so Wolf qualified as an emergency recall. Now that Markstrom in healthy again, but Vladar isn't, Wolf can stay up still on an emergency recall.