Establishing rosters

[Jedediah-Hartford]

Ok, so this time, I'm going to be the broken record bringing up the lack of lineup fulfillment by teams in this league again, but with a slightly twist on which aspect of this I find objectionable...

The lack of a selected lineup is something that is at least being tolerated for the time being.  However, should there be a stronger stance when it comes to major/minor league rosters?  It's one thing to not have a lineup set, but to not even have a declared major league roster screams unrealistic, and yet continues to occur. 

If none of the players are on either roster and yet players are being used for the game (as is the case with 1 team, and there is another that has only 2 players on its major league roster and none on its minor league roster), is it not arguable that the entire 45+ man rosters of these clubs could/should be treated as available each game (which then could be used to interpret any players on minor league contracts as potentially being bench players on a given night, which would then kick start the owning team's obligation in the following season to offer said players big league contracts or face losing them?

Curious to hear others' takes on this.

[Scott-New Jersey]

Only need to sign if they played a GHL game. Bench is not playing. No stats are made.

[Jedediah-Hartford]

Feb 20, 2020 11:38:36 GMT -5 Scott-New Jersey said:

Only need to sign if they played a GHL game. Bench is not playing. No stats are made.

Except for goalies though, 2 goalies "play" even if only one gets on the ice.  It's why I played a then minor league Mike Condon in the 15-16 playoffs, because even having him on the bench and playing another goalie the whole time would not have prevented me from having to offer him a contract the following season, when I was hoping to stash him in the minors all year and just take the MIN contract increase.  That eventually played a role in me trading him later on.