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Caps recall Fleischmann

"Tomas Fleischmann has been recalled from his Hershey conditioning stint and activated from IR" - @capsmedia

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Still getting used to the new CapGeek, but I think this puts the team into the bonus cushion.

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by Gould Old Days on Oct 28, 2009 5:51 PM EDT reply actions  

By my math, you’re right. But they also, I believe, have to either IR one of Gordon/Laing or cut someone to get back down to 23 men, no?

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by J.P. on Oct 28, 2009 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

Fehr’s another candidate, but yeah, I think they need to put a forward on IR.

I get:
Ovi, Backstrom, Semin, Laich, Mo, Knuble, Aucoin, Steckel, Bradley, Nylander, Clark, Laing, Gordon, Flash and Fehr is 15 forwards
Green, Schultz, Poti, Pothier, Sloan, Juice, and Mo is 7 defensemen
Theo and Varly is 2 goalies.
Erskine is already on IR (I think)

That’s 24 players other than Erskine. So I guess Gordon, Laing or Fehr need to go on IR. I wouldn’t mind seeing them LTIR Gordon retroactively back to the first game he missed.

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by Gould Old Days on Oct 28, 2009 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

Can’t think of a better time to send Laing through waivers. Who is going to pick up a guy with swine flu?

by Stormblue on Oct 28, 2009 7:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

Can you waive a guy who’s out injured/sick?

by gfcaps fan on Oct 28, 2009 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Nein.

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by Bald Pollack on Oct 28, 2009 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sometime in the last couple of years, didn’t a team need a special exemption from the salary cap/ waivers rules because they had so many players get sick at once, but they weren’t LTIR eligible?

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by Gould Old Days on Oct 28, 2009 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

Didn’t think so, but wanted someone to confirm that.

by gfcaps fan on Oct 29, 2009 7:14 AM EDT up reply actions  

The roster spot was opened by assigning Giroux to Hershey and that freed up enough cap space too. Gordon and Erskine on IR already by my notes and that had to be or there would not have been roster spots for aucoin and giroux. My math says they have been using a good portion of the bonus cushion from 19’s contract all season.

by sk84fun_dc on Oct 28, 2009 10:10 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

sk8, do you know the terms of Backstrom’s bonus? Is he likely to get it?

I suspect the team hopes (wishes) to move the Nylander contract, so they feel fairly comfortable eating into the bonus for now. If I’m right, I hope that optimism is justified.

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by Gould Old Days on Oct 28, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

oooh, i forgot about Nyls……..maybe he gets moved and that clears the roster spot and no one goes back down….. lots of things would have to fall into place pretty quickly tho……

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by RedskinFan4Life on Oct 28, 2009 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions  

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by EmilyB on Oct 28, 2009 10:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

Huh. Guess I missed Gordo-to-IR. Thanks.

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by J.P. on Oct 29, 2009 6:39 AM EDT up reply actions  

Hopefully we get the Flash from the beginning of the 08-09 season, but I’m not going to hold my breath.

by SethB on Oct 28, 2009 6:00 PM EDT reply actions  

I doubt it.

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by gotsparkly on Oct 28, 2009 6:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

Line reshuffling again…

Brooksie or Flash on the 2nd line?

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by Steck It Out on Oct 28, 2009 6:03 PM EDT reply actions  

Laich for starters – Flash is going to have to start slow and I bet BB’s going to want to play it cool with his minutes at first.

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by gotsparkly on Oct 28, 2009 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

That does not sound like something BB would do with Flash. I bet Flash starts on the 2nd line, PP2, and more likely than I’d hope he’ll get PK time.

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by Rob Parker on Oct 28, 2009 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

I wouldn’t mind seeing Flash-Aucoin-Clark as the fourth/energy line. That makes Bradley-Steckel-Fehr the third line.

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by Gould Old Days on Oct 28, 2009 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

Given Bruce’s love affair with Flash, I’m betting he goes to the second and Laich moves down to center the third between Fehr and Clark

by b.orr4 on Oct 28, 2009 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah, I was going to say given Gabby’s troo luv affair with Flash, he’ll be starting the game with Backy and Ovie. :)

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by marky narc on Oct 28, 2009 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

I doubt it. Didn’t happen last year. I think it’s more likely he’ll be with Morrison and Knuble. Unless Bruce chooses to put in on the 3rd line with Fehr and Aucoin. Flash and Fehr have been a good combination in the past. (Of course, Fehr’s injured at the moment.)

by CapsFan75 on Oct 28, 2009 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

I voted Laing the other day in the poll, but I have to say I kinda like Sloan at forward.

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by toymechanic on Oct 28, 2009 6:48 PM EDT reply actions  

I saw all I needed to see of Sloan at F. No gracias.

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by macvechkin on Oct 28, 2009 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

He’s a serviceable fill-in, but let’s not convert the guy.

Maybe play with an edge, be a little more physical -- maybe be more of a prick out there.

by jordanDC on Oct 28, 2009 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

I say Q out, Flash in for the 23 man roster.

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by Jake Shapiro on Oct 28, 2009 7:00 PM EDT reply actions  

Aaaand with this fanpost, CapsChick is off the front page. Things sure move fast around here. It’s pretty impressive.

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by Gould Old Days on Oct 28, 2009 7:16 PM EDT reply actions  

and hard to keep up with too!

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by RedskinFan4Life on Oct 28, 2009 9:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

Let's see....

Ok after reading everyone’s posts and some thinking…..here’s what I see…. (insert disclaimer here)

Ov-Backs-Semin
Knubs-Laich-BMo
Aucoin/Laing-Flash-Clark
Bradley-Steckel-Fehr

My bet is Laing too. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see Aucoin go - despite all his good efforts and points he’s been making the past week or two. Same thing happened to him last spring – did well right before the playoffs and got sent back anyway. But I like Laing’s work because I saw another post – he’s doesn’t score, but he doesn’t screw up either. I think Laing’s size might also help him stay vs. Aucoin. Aucoin’s a good guy with great hockey smarts, but did any of you see him bounce off Pronger last night? Now it seems the more I talk, the more I think Aucoin is going…..

I can’t see Flash going higher than 3rd line — don’t want him to slow down Knubs or Bmo while he tries to get acclimated to the NHL speed again…. but we all know how BB feels about Flash. Maybe BB will surprise us…..

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by RedskinFan4Life on Oct 28, 2009 10:21 PM EDT reply actions  

It wouldn’t be crazy to put Flash on the second line, but have Ovi’s doubleshift minutes come out of his TOI. That might work out to a reasonable number of minutes for Flash, coming off the health problems.

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by Gould Old Days on Oct 28, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

Why would BMo go on the wing? And Knubs to the LW?

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by EmilyB on Oct 28, 2009 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

Flash usually played as left wing last year even though he’s been listed as a center. Usually, the other winger on his line would be Semin or Fehr.

by CapsFan75 on Oct 28, 2009 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think he’s referring to RedskinFan4Life’s lines above (who seems to be a bit confused about positions). Using those lines, it would really look like this:

Ovie-Backs-Semin
Laich-BMo-Knuble
Flash-Aucoin-Clark
Bradley-Steckel-Fehr

Although, personally, I’d switch Clark and Fehr. And once Gordon comes back, I’d probably go:

Flash-Steckel-Fehr
Bradley-Gordon-Clark

as the bottom two lines.

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by Scott in Shaw on Oct 28, 2009 10:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah. We’d have to call that third line the Chocolate Line, though.

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by gotsparkly on Oct 29, 2009 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

Sadly, made by Necco, not Hershey

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by Gould Old Days on Oct 29, 2009 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions  

The Hershey Highway?

"Let the rest be scared of us." - Sasha Semin

by Scott in Shaw on Oct 29, 2009 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

Used to play against the Hershey Squirts when I was 9-10. Always had a good laugh.

Maybe play with an edge, be a little more physical -- maybe be more of a prick out there.

by jordanDC on Oct 29, 2009 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

I can think of an immediate abuse of that one, sadly.

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by gotsparkly on Oct 29, 2009 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

thanks Scott……thats a goof on my part. sorry…. Laich had played center before and he is listed as a center on the roster.

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by RedskinFan4Life on Oct 29, 2009 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh good idea! I hear he had 5 points and a shootout goal during his conditioning assignment!

by Mobsky on Oct 28, 2009 11:57 PM EDT reply actions  

Welcome back, Flash...

Fight, you time-wasting figure skaters!

by boutros23 on Oct 29, 2009 8:12 AM EDT reply actions  

Welcome back, Flash...

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by J.P. on Oct 29, 2009 9:02 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

you win.

Fight, you time-wasting figure skaters!

by boutros23 on Oct 29, 2009 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions  

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