no, they could make a system in which a cap applies to the playoffs as a snapshot of the last day of the regular season and if you have an injured player like Landeskog who is expected to play for the playoffs but miss the season, you have to make it fit, either you replace the player for the season using LTIR like it is today but and the injured in ineligible to return for the playoffs, you dont put the player on LTIR and play without allowing the player to return when ready. That gets rid of cap shenanigans, teams shouldn't be able to benefit from injuries for the playoffs, and yes, this applies to Evander Kane as well.
Yea and with that system Landeskog would be on LTIR and they couldn't make him fit when he unexpectedly comes back at the end of the season
And that would rob us from one of the best storylines in the PO and from a better product on the ice.
And an over the cap team with an advantage over others. Another * if you will.
it can't be argued he could step in this week and be at full speed, given everything he's gone through, there is literally a documentary going on about this not being healthy and hiding an injury, the entire world for years has some empathy, weird take, Oiler loser denial insecurity at its finest
This ain’t an Evander Kane stating he will be back situation, this is a player missing substantial time and working his way back. To even try and say anything around Landeskog resembles circumvention is asinine
thats literally what I'm saying, is that someone saying this is delaying his readiness is unqualified, think you got what I was trying to say wrong, the sport is better with him making it back in the playoffs
No, just agreeing and reaffirming your point.
Delaying readiness or not. It’s still cap circumvention. I can’t see you what you are replying to because that poster has been in my ignore list for years now.
When Kuch was out for the year, the main complaint was he could have come back for the last few games probably. With Landy playing tonight the same complaint still holds that he could play before the PO. All that said the original complaint was bs anyways cause why would you play your star in meaningless regular season games instead of giving him time and play him when it actually matters.
It’s the long con, LTIR a player in the 21-22 season to exploit cap in the 24-25 playoffs. Colorado has some big balls pulling off this stunt!!!
Kucherov only missed 82 games and didn’t really require conditioning when he came back in the playoffs. Landy missed like 246 games (not counting playoffs) He needs conditioning stint in AHL to come back and play an NHL game again. Also we’re talking about different types of injuries with Kucherov and Landeskog.
Yup. As fans it's frustrating watching Kucherov and Stone be blatant LTIR circumvention, but I get why they don't close the loophole.
Something might happen in the future, but that's part of the CBA negotiations. Unlike the supposed "tax-advantage", this one is actually fairly easy to solve with just applying the salary cap for post season as well.
