Blackjack
Registered User
He isn’t hurt. You can’t just put guys on LTIR for no reason. Plus we aren’t a cap team. Those cap savings only kick in once you go over the cap.
So he injured his hip, had surgery, and since then he can't stop 90% of the shots he sees in the AHL? He obviously never recovered and there's no doubt in my mind that if he was on the Leafs or Bolts he'd be on the LTIR in a heartbeat. We don't need the relief now, but if we were competitive next year or in 2021 we would have that flexibility. Also, buying him out is going to double the remaining years we have his dead $2 million, so 3 or 4 years from now that $2 million penalty could absolutely hurt us. Big money teams don't deal with any of that. They just LTIR and move on.