Mez
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Vegas about to circumvent cap again? UPD: Mark Stone back practicing.
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The Crypto Guy
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It would help if people understood what "circumventing the cap" really means.
Of course it would also help if people realized that if "circumventing the cap" is a thing, it's league-endorsed and it's never doing anything about it beyond a perfunctory no one should do it, we're watching, we're really serious this year statement.
Of course it would also help if people realized that if "circumventing the cap" is a thing, it's league-endorsed and it's never doing anything about it beyond a perfunctory no one should do it, we're watching, we're really serious this year statement.
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Mr Positive
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It almost needs a new word. Is it circumvention if the medical issue has been playable for a while, but the timing of going on LTIR is selected just to spend at the deadline, with Eichel returning just in time for the cap to disappear?
Honestly, if the medical issue is real (which it is) then you can't call it circumvention
Honestly, if the medical issue is real (which it is) then you can't call it circumvention
The simplest solution is make the cap apply through the playoffs.
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Imo a good consolation rule with that one would be that the cap only applies to dressed players when it comes to playoffs. A problem with a continuous cap is that trades are the only real way to fix a cap problem, and it would be too odd to have that going on during playoffs
I can't think of a candidate we could do with this though. You can't just make it up, but if there's a player suffering through some issue then we could have them get a treatment of some kind
I agree. At a bare minimum if they don’t want to do that then have whomever coming off LTIR can’t play in the first round. Suddenly these “injuries” won’t seem so serious
The thing about Las Vegas is that the house always win.
I was hoping Campbell would claim PTSD and that could be used but they forced him to play immediately in Bakersfield
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There’s no indication that Eichel will be on LTIR for the rest of the regular season. He’s already been out long enough to be placed on LTIR today and activated as soon as tomorrow after already missing the required 10 games and 24 days. Hasn’t played since Jan 11th—that’s 40 missed days and 13 missed games so far.
Eichel to LTIR appears to be a temporary cap juggling move by Vegas to free up the needed cap space to activate Theodore off LTIR.
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FFS somehow the Sens will lose a draft pick over this.
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Not quite that simple.
Most playoff teams are above the cap based on salary aav in the playoffs, because they accrue cap space during the season so they can spend at the deadline.
Make it hard cap for the playoffs, kill the trade deadline. And the ad dollars that go with it.
Maybe you can do somthing like the offseason where you can exceed by 10% so it's not so egregious? Not sure.
If you miss all the games from the trade deadline to the playoffs you miss the entire first round? Ensures a team can be cap compliant by the time playoffs start?
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Everyone playing in March has one or more things wrong with them that would put an average Joe office worker in work from home protocol for several weeks, it’s just weird how it’s never the 900k 4th liners taking the brunt of the physical punishment needing to go on LTIR that happens to end on game 1 of the playoffs.
Then just remove the salary cap.
Cap already killed the deadline. But if you want to discourage that practice of using LTIR as a crutch, it has to no longer be a crutch. As others have suggested, there could be some kind of flexibility.
