Folks, the Calgary Flames have made a few transactions today. There’s some math involved, but let’s get the easy stuff out of the way first: Derek Ryan has been placed on the long-term injury reserve (retroactive to Feb. 4), while club has officially recalled Connor Mackey and forwards Zac Rinaldo and Byron Froese.
Via PuckPedia, here’s the gist of things:
With #Flames putting Derek Ryan on LTIR, they first called up Mackey. That left them with $312K of Projected Cap Space. Then, putting Ryan on LTIR allowed to exceed cap by his $3.