Someone check my understanding please
Dvorak, Wideman and Price are all hurt and will be placed on IR. Players on IR still count on our cap but not on our 23 man roster.
We could place Price on off-season LTIR (like last season) so he doesn't count towards our cap but that has negative implications on how cap is accrued throughout the season and will impact next year's numbers. We're trying to wait until the regular season starts before placing Price and possibly Wideman on LTIR
We must dress a 20 man roster (league minimum) for opening night. We can paper-transaction some of our waiver exempt players (Slaf, Harris, RHP, Barron, Guhle, Xhekaj) and somehow still be cap compliant.
Am I understanding correctly?
Not entirely.
There is an active roster, and a cap compliance roster. Cap compliance is checked every day. Players unavailable due to injury count on the cap but not against the minimum 20 man active roster
on game days.
Start of 2023-24 season Cap Compliance day is not a game day. There can be unavailable players on the compliance roster prvoided there is no game that day and that the reason for their unavailability is injury (and not suspension for instance). Minimum roster size for cap is 20 and maximum 23.
If we wanted to, we could go with a 20 man roster with Price being one of the 20, but we don't want to waive either of Allen or Montembeault. So we will go with a 21 man roster, including Price. We will also surely include Dvorak and probably Wideman (because even though Wideman is expendable, his cap hit is less than waiver-exempt players we can and will paper-demote for 1 day).
We could actually take on Mathieu Joseph and still waive exempt players plus Allen, Armia and Evans, and come in un der the cap, then place Price on LTIR the next day, as well as place any guys on IR that we need to, and re-shuffle the roster to whichever max 23 healthy players we want.