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In response to
"Hockey question? There are healthy scratches, right? And they sit up in the press box? If a player gets hurt during the game.... "
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Ender
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press box, owner's box, sometimes in the stands somewhere. they don't necessarily have to be at the game but they almost always are.
Posted by
mafic
Oct 24 '22, 22:58
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you can have 23 guys on the active roster, and dress 18 skaters and 2 goalies for any given game. only players on the 20-man list can play. healthy scratches can't join mid-game, except maybe arguably a goalie.
if both your goalies are injured, the rule is you can dress anyone available, so if you had a goalie as a healthy scratch, I guess he could theoretically dress and play? there's also emergency backup goalies - guys with day jobs who played goal at some point in the past who are on call in case a team loses both their goalies. they're available to both teams, so if the visitor loses both the emergency backup is there for them too. I don't know if the emergency backup or the healthy scratch would take precedence. I imagine you could choose, but I'm not aware of it ever happening.
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