The team's regular backup, Josh Harding, would take the ice instead, but the guy the team had tapped to back him up, a minor-leaguer named Matt Hackett, had to catch a flight from Houston.
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Even then, it is likely that they are tracking ether a Major Leaguer whose rehabilitation assignment sends him through the Class A minor league or the development of an up-and-coming ballplayer.
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