Yeah, it without a doubt simply is all numbers. Timonen wont be ready to go again tomorrow (holy shit, this flu is nuts) so they couldn’t do the simple fix and just send Kukkonen down. When you look at the numbers (note, the salary cap page has been updated with all of these moves), you can see how it works out. As of right this second, the Flyers are just $252,500 under the cap.

The Guenin call up makes sense because he’s cheaper than Kukkonen.

Say you send down Jared Ross and his 500k comes off. You’re then $752,500 under, but Giroux has a cap hit of $821,667. Sending down one of Powe or Cote wouldn’t get the Flyers under either, if you want to keep Giroux. The only guy who the numbers would work out for is Arron Asham. He makes 640k and if you send him down and keep Giroux, you’re $70,833 under the cap. That’d probably be the closest any team has ever been to the cap.

I see how the Flyers want to keep Asham in against the Devils, and I’m sure they’re probably assuming that Briere nullifies Giroux’s output for the time being — however long Timonen is out.

I’m sure that whenever Timonen is healthy, Guenin and Ross will be back down and Giroux will be back up.

Well, either way, Homer has to do something because this is not good cap management. You can complain about Briere and Jones making too much, or injuries causing this, but no matter what, this should not be a season-long issue. And even if your Briere for Giroux one day wash theory was correct, if Homer had done something a month ago, imagine Briere and Giroux in a critical game like this. Chances go way up if the cap was not an issue. I’ll reiterate: Trade Randy Jones

could this be because homer is gonna deal giroux soon? idk

has bent over backword to accomodate briere’s return.

briere had better put up some numbers or this town will crucify him.

to send giroux down at this point is a horrible mistake. every time giroux touches the puck there’s a scoring chance.

Don’t doubt Danny.

When he’s healthy, the points he puts up are insurmountable. I’d suspect that he’s going to be just fine during his return, and will have a stark impact on whichever line he is going to skate with. I expect him to have at least one point tomorrow, if not more. Chalk it up in the G category, too.