Cards don’t follow players. Cards are meant to limit the number of deals/movement. It is not like the NHL with roster spots etc.
All rookies are assigned cards once they play their 10th game. After they achieve that, they are on the full player card. Once they play game one the following seasons, they count as a card.
Hilton played over ten games so his first game this year was assigned a card.
Each of the rookies on the roster technically do not have a full card yet. They need to play 10 games but we assume they will play 10 games and then be assigned a card.
The only thing I am not sure of is Conway. I’m not sure if it is him on the player game sheet or actually on the ice.
It was about the arena lease. They received a significantly better deal in Brantford. When your attendance is brutal, controlling costs becomes a big deal.
The issue is that we need bodies at defence and forward. If that is the case, then we need to consider releasing Mack so that we have enough skaters.
We are coming in to flu season which could kill us. We need this year to be a write-off and develop players. The issue is not the players but that Boyd did not draft players who could play in the OHL in the past few years. Tourigny had the same issue; hence, his son made the team.
For me the team that makes sense right now is
Pinelli Foster Stonehouse Gerrior
Ekberg Dever Korbler
Yanni Whitehead Horner
Barlas Amidovski Kelly
Houben
7 D 2 OA
Nelson
Conway
We are not going to get a player for Gerrior or Stonehouse, but we need to waive and trade one of them.
While I would like to keep MacK to play this year and ease Nelson and Conway, I think we need the 7 D at least especially as we do not know what we will get back in trades for Mews and Pinelli.
Horner