Yea I wasn’t implying that you were against this or anything. It’s just you referred to it as a loophole which implies Leafs are somehow gaming the system, but I can see an angle in which this is all fair play for all parties and intentionally incorporated into the procedure.
On a tangent, do we know it was actually an official emergency recall, versus Leafs somehow getting permission from Pickard to recall him while waiving his right to waivers? Sometimes media make assumptions on matters that Leafs management otherwise have tightly covered.