Quoting: RazWild
As opposed to calling someone up from Iowa, and rewarding a kid that had been in the press box the last ten days? Sure whatever you say.
MN was already at the 23 man roster cap yesterday. I don't the the rules to non-roster a positive COVID test player. I also have no clue what time Freddy G's COVID test came back hot, so getting someone to MN from Iowa might have been too much of a time crunch? It was also a home game against a bottom feeder, so there might not have been any urgency?
This is team failure on the management side of things. Spurgeon should have been put on IR to open a roster spot. A FWD should have been called up when Zucc got hurt as an insurance policy. It's not like MN is cap tight at all.
It seems like every year there is at least one game a year where a d-man line up as a FWD: Addison, Hunt, even Prosser. Some of those years it was due to MN pushing the cap and having no room to play with.