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Originally Posted by bdubbs
NHL games, and make it so ELC players are excluded from the rule.
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Wouldn’t have stopped the Kane example, or Stamkos either (or Anderson in Toronto). It really would only apply to Kucherov out of the examples of creative cap compliance I can think of.
The issue with the Hawks and Leafs examples wasn’t the players - it was the bodies added with freed up cap space. Toronto could never have signed Rittich, Foligno, Nash or Hutton.
Tampa only added Savard (a good player). But their issue with Kucherov was that they had signed a few RFAs to raises as opposed to signing new blood. I still need convincing that, at the start of the season when they gave those raises, they knew that Kucherov would be ready prior to the end of the season. Because that’s they only way they could have knowingly taken advantage.