Fascinating stuff this morning… well, fascinating if you dig paperwork. The Islanders announced that Dylan Reese’s recall was under emergency conditions. You can’t call a defenseman up on emergency without having fewer than six healthy defensemen. (So I went speculating on Twitter. Ah well.) From what we understand, they listed Andrew MacDonald as the player whom Reese would be spelling. (Overcome by the Matterhorn, perhaps.) But then they said to expect the same lineup, and tonight’s warmup tweets indicate that’s the case, though Reese is taking warmup. So, apparently, as long as MacDonald (and the other five who played this week) are OK, with the emergency conditions terminated (in essence before they began), Reese will remain with the team on a regular recall this weekend as a seventh defenseman. (Edit: As gametime arrives, the Islanders announced that he is, indeed, on regular recall.)
The most pressing ramification of that is that it starts a clock toward the next time Reese would have to clear waivers. (For instance, Tim Wallace has been up long enough that he’d have to clear to come back to Bridgeport.) Though emergency-recall time apparently doesn’t count, once a player is on regular recall, if he plays 10 NHL games or spends 30 days (cumulative) on an NHL roster, he has to clear waivers again to be sent down*. Reese’s recall time has all been under emergency conditions so far, so he’s at zero on both counts. If a defenseman can’t play tonight, Reese remains up on emergency and plays tonight. If the six are OK, Reese sits and becomes a regular recall.
Edit, Jan. 9: Now got a conflicting interpretation of that last paragraph. Strike all that, for now at least. If Reese’s previous time does count, he had nine games in, and, I think, 21 days on his first recall.
So, weird as this sounds, appears we’ll have to start the clock tonight on Reese’s waivers exemption… unless he actually plays.
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Brent Thompson said earlier today that Trevor Gillies and Justin DiBenedetto are skating and are making progress. He didn’t anticipate any transactions beyond Reese.
Prescout on Bridgeport’s next two opponents. The visitors are more pressing; first regulation loss in six games for them.
Over 10,000 in Providence, but that doesn’t look like much compared to what this’ll do for the Phantoms: Announced attendance outside was a league-record 45,653. I liked Tim Leone’s tiebreaker idea. Thankfully, it wasn’t needed; Adirondack never led until it won in overtime.
Former Sound Tigers with goals tonight include Trevor Smith (well, sure), Victor Bartley and Scott Ford (defensemen, there you go), and Eric Godard (well then). And the night is still, in theory, young.
As seen on Uni Watch: Mount Saint Charles‘ nifty sweaters for a game at Fenway Park.
The NHL says it’ll postpone its realignment plan after not getting NHLPA approval by the NHL’s deadline. The NHLPA says the league didn’t provide information it requested. The collective bargaining agreement expires in September, by the way.
And RIP, Robert “Bobby Purify” Dickey.
*-This is all in Article 13.5 of the NHL CBA, if you feel like reading.
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