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2024-25 Canes Miscellaneous Thread

Was he on an emergency callup with a time limit or something?
As far as I can tell, he was on a regular recall, which is 30 days or 10 games, right? He was recalled on 10/28, that’s only 13 days and 6 games. So this has to be for banking a day of cap space, no?
 
Is there an explanation for any of these moves?
Nope. They didn’t practice today, they’ll have a morning skate at 2 pm eastern time tomorrow. If the team or Walt tweets about the participants we’ll know, otherwise it will be RBAs presser after the skate.
 
I'm guessing that Smith being called up means that Stillman is finally healthy enough to play and that they want to send him to Chicago to get going. It probably also means that one of the D corps is dinged up so they need an active body in reserve. With Orlov, Ghost and Walker all being adept on their off side, I wouldn't read much into right/left shot concerns.

Same idea with Jost, really. Somebody's dinged up and needs cover. He's a bottom 6 guy, but Blake can slot into the top 6 and Jarvis can obviously slide up.
 
Mackinnon, Kaprizov, Makar, Eichel, Kucherov, Reinhart, NECAS?!??!

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It's not like anybody who follows the Canes didn't know he had it in him. The only doubt was whether or not he'd ever make adjustments to allow that prodigious talent to start to ring up counting stats. He has, and hopefully he'll enjoy the acclaim enough to keep it up.
 
Could someone else claim him?
Yeah, he's well past being exempt from waivers. I think this is his 7th contract year.

Now, WILL someone claim him? I doubt it, but you never know. They'd have to have immediate need on their NHL roster and be willing to take on a guy who basically needs another training camp to be ready to contribute. So, pretty decent chance he just ends up going to the Wolves.
 
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