Commander Clueless
Hiya, hiya. Pleased to meetcha.
- Sep 10, 2008
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While I do see your point, I don't think you can fully avoid the ability to use conveniently timed injuries to your advantage... Not while keeping the intended ability to replace injured players in season.I disagree. I'm not saying it's not better as it's a small step better. But it won't stop what we see happening. Teams with dead cap players will just get a "Get out of jail free card".
It would in effect allow teams to bury poor contracts come playoff time for better ones.
Player X makes 10 mill on his 8 year deal and is 40 years old in year 8. He's cooked and barely even plays.
Meanwhile player Y at 12 million goes on LTIR in a Kucherov/Stone type situation (will miracle heal in time for game 1)
Now they trade for player Z at 11 million.
They are cap compliant with player X and Z on the roster so long as Y is on LTIR.
Playoffs day 1 comes.
Player Y comes off LTIR, player X is sat to be cap compliant, player Z is plays.
You could even go through the exercise with player X just getting magically hurt and going to Robidas island as well.
Would be interesting to see and I do agree it's better than what's currently happening. But my point is they'll just find ways to get around it as well.
It's difficult to avoid "addition by subtraction" scenarios when contracts are guaranteed and players' performance can radically change for a variety of reasons.
As you say though that is better than the scenario that exists now, where a team could simply use all three players in the playoffs.
The faking or misreporting of injuries is already against the rules and is on the NHL to enforce. We as fans never truly know the full extent of that discussion obviously.
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