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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Honestly this happens so rarely that I don't think it warrants a rule change. It's like when people were clamoring for a fix for the EBUG system after that Zamboni driver went in against the Leafs. If it starts happening a lot we can talk about needing to fix it, but one team every 5 years based on injury timing... not really worth addressing.
Besides, if the league really wanted to address it they could just declare it to be cap circumvention and institute some penalty, like you lose a pick or have a cap penalty next year or whatever.
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For the Kucherov example you need (a) a star player with (b) a serious injury/surgery that at least can be estimated for the whole season to rehab, (c) you have to make the POs even without that player and (d) he has to actually come back and make a difference in the POs.
A rule change would put teams in a real bind when facing a serious injury to a player. Do they not replace him and possibly toss the season on the chance they’d have some sort of severe penalty if the recovery goes really well?