NEW YORK — Just when you thought you had the Flyers' roster all figured out, two more players went down with injury and it affects the team's salary cap more and will now alter its roster.

Scott Laughton (knee) and Brandon Manning (shoulder) are out for the foreseeable future (see story). Both of these players were likely targets to be sent to the Phantoms next week as the Flyers get down to 23 players.

Injured players can’t be moved. Hence, the Flyers now have a cap quandary in which someone — who likely deserves a spot on the team — has to go. In the past, that was defenseman Andrew MacDonald.

It's hard to see MacDonald going back given he's been the club’s best veteran defenseman in camp.

“I will say this about Andrew — he’s played very well,” general manager Ron Hextall said Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. “I know some people have a perception of him that he’s a bad hockey player and he’s not."

The NHL cap is $73 million. The Flyers are at $74.675 million right now (26 players), via capfriendly.com, with Roman Lyubimov, Travis Konecny and Ivan Provorov — three players who have earned a roster spot.

Who goes? This time, it could be any number of players, including newcomer Lyubimov ($925,000) or even the rookie Konecny ($894,167).

Konecny’s play this weekend at Boston in the exhibition finale will be pivotal to him surviving the cut. Yet even if the 19-year-old went back to junior, his salary alone doesn’t solve things.

“The stakes go up,” Hextall said. “They’re going to be up in Boston and we’ll see how they do and how everyone else does. But they’ve done a good job.”

Konecny should benefit from Manning’s injury and remain here.

“I’m still looking at it the same way,” Konecny said. “I have to earn my spot. It’s upsetting news. I don’t want to see a guy go down like that.”

Problem is, the Flyers have too many players right now (Cole Bardreau medically cleared and sent back; Mark Alt is injured non-roster) and unless you know which players they plan to carry, it’s hard to figure their cap.

The Flyers could LTIR (long-term injured reserve) Laughton ($863,333), but if they do, they take a penalty hit at the trade deadline if they pick up any players. They get charged with the full cap and not the pro-rated amount.

Hextall isn't in favor of going the LTIR route.

“We have to figure some things out,” Hextall said. “It’s not as helpful as you think. We have two things to deal with. A roster of 23 and a cap issue. It’s more the cap issue that gets complicated. … The roster spot is not an issue right now. It’s the cap.”

Hextall wouldn’t talk specifics, yet admitted his choices are less than ideal.

“We’re probably going to have to do something we don’t want to do, anyway,” he said. “We got a battle going on here … I can’t tell you right now, I don’t know at this point. We have some tough issues.”

The injuries to Laughton and Manning alter things for "bubble players" and creates a “domino effect,” Hextall said. Example: Jordan Weal ($650,000) and Chris VandeVelde ($712,500) are bubble players at this point. Even if the Flyers cut both, it’s still not enough savings off the cap.

Unlike Laughton, both those players would have to clear waivers. Laughton can’t be moved, anyway.

The Flyers could waive an expensive veteran such as Matt Read, but the most the Flyers could shave off their cap from his $3.625 million salary is $950,000. That’s not enough.

Read and Lyubimov would get them under the cap but would hurt the club because Lyubimov has been very good in preseason. They could also send Nick Cousins ($840,000) down with Lyubimov and get under.

“We’re going to consider everything we can do to put the best team on the ice under the cap,” Hextall said. “Try to keep our depth together.”

Easier said than done.