A week or two ago, we were told that the NHL and NHLPA were moving past talking about contentious money issues. Now, there has been talk that the league is working on some kind of expanded roster system to deal with the inevitable issue of having a bunch of players test positive on the same team at once. Without it, there would be more games suspended and more scrambling to fill a roster that’s playable or to reschedule those games.
In last night’s Insider Trading, they talked about the difficulties the league and player’s association is having trying to figure out how they can make any alternative roster options fit within their cap system.