It’s time to get ready to do it again. What may be the strangest season in modern NHL history is set to start in 10 days, and it begins with short training camps, no exhibition games, reduced rosters and extra goalies.
By January 12, the training camp roster of players has to be divided up into four groups:
- The salary-cap-compliant roster of 23 players or less*
- The Taxi Squad of four - six players
- The players cut to the minors or loaned to another league
- LTIR (unlikely, but injuries happen)
* The Maple Leafs can’t have 23 players on a roster unless someone who is fairly expensive is hurt and on LTIR.