Speculation: Pietrangelo to LTIRetire?

[BeranekAndNeck]

Hmm, and will the NHL use its media mouthpieces to sternly warn Vegas that it’ll be “investigating” just like they did with Evander Kane’s rehab? Nah, announcing literally months before the season starts that you will be unhealthy for a specific period of time is completely normal stuff and not cap circumvention at all.

 

[SML2]

This is a rules changes id make -- a player can't sit on IR/LTIR the full sesson and then play in playoffs. They must be active on the roster during thr season

I would make it so you can't dress a team with a cap hit that exceeds the ceiling. If someone is scratched or hurt they don't count for that game.

 

[The don godfather]

What happens in vegas stays in vegas.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Aex P to LTIR? Marner to Vegas and Alex P recovery 1st round of the playoffs

 

[Oddbob]

I'm sure you are going to have someone miss most of a season every year that has a big cap hit.

 

[Captain97]

Friedman said this has happened yearly that Pietrangelo has contemplated being done, so maybe the past two seasons and this season he's thought about it and maybe it's time he's had enough. We would be better with him because Theodore isn't inspiring confidence to be the guy, maybe Hanifin and him can tag team the responsibility.

Everyone making jokes about him coming back, Vegas couldn't replace his cap hit now then afford him again the next season because Eichel and Dorofeyev need new deals, if he doesn't play this season I think you are correct and he's done, which does make me sad.

I think Vegas is better with him when healthy and we could find ways to tweak the team and don't need to get out of his contract to improve the team, this isn't gaming anything, I think we would rather have a healthy Pietrangelo on our team.

It might be similar to what happened with Weber. He could play through the injury for years with some rehabbing but was painful and to fix it permanently would require career ending surgery.

 

[CanesUltimate11]

This is a rules changes id make -- a player can't sit on IR/LTIR the full sesson and then play in playoffs. They must be active on the roster during thr season

Yup. If you're healthy enough to play in game 1 of the playoffs then you're healthy enough to at least sit on the bench in game 80/81/82.

 

[eojsmada]

I wish the PA cared. They don't care about player safety though either, so, let the chips fall where they may.

Why would they? They get their dues, the agent still makes his money, and the player gets his money from the team.

 

[ManofSteel55]

The only difference is that Tkachuk will be activated as soon as he's healthy, not just in time for the playoffs.

Just like this year, right?

 

[ManofSteel55]

This is a rules changes id make -- a player can't sit on IR/LTIR the full sesson and then play in playoffs. They must be active on the roster during thr season

I don't know if it would even need to go that far. Make it so if a guy is on LTIR/IR for the last 2 games of the regular season, he will be ineligible to lay in the first round.

 

[WhataKnight]

To be fair, this has been bubbling for a while, and AP did back out of the Four Nations’.

One doesn’t have to look hard to see posts questioning his slowdown as far back as last fall/winter.