Mitchell symptom free

Soapy · Post by **Soapy** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:06 pm

Great news off the internet today !!
Canucks' Willie Mitchell skated with the team today and was symptom free. He said he felt great and hopes he can play tomorrow.
A decision will be made tomorrow on whether he'll play, either following the skate or it will be game-time decision.
Thank you hockey gods! I thought we might have lost him with the unrecoverable concussion....make us a lot harder to play against. It will be awsome if he can play against Detroit.

the Cunning Linguist · Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:27 pm

This is what I read this morning... http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/ ... 5989dd055d Do you have a more current source? The Province article didn't sound too confident that he'd be back this week...

Soapy · Post by **Soapy** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:35 pm

SPORTSNET.CA
http://www2.sportsnet.ca/blogs/hockeyce ... ptom_free/

I saw it come up on the site at about 1PM PST

Backwash · Post by **Backwash** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:37 pm

Now do you leave him on the IR for his 10th game and free up $400,000?? If he's questionable i say do it, And alleviate the cap space pressure on Nonis.

JamesOwnzSam11 · Post by **JamesOwnzSam11** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:10 pm

We will see.

Jyrki21 · Post by **Jyrki21** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:56 pm

Backwash wrote:Now do you leave him on the IR for his 10th game and free up $400,000?? If he's questionable i say do it, And alleviate the cap space pressure on Nonis.

There was a lot of talk last year about this with Ed Jovanovski. My understanding is that it doesn't simply free up cap space. Rather, the value of a player acquired to replace him would not count against the cap.

Perhaps someone who knows more definitively can comment... but I believe in the case, the minimum wage salary of either Edler or Coulombe is what is not counting in his absence. Maybe not?