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Originally Posted by stemit14
It’s the convenient timing of his return that has everyone upset. Yes, he had surgery and had a recovery time but if his return was one week earlier, Tampa would have not been cap compliant. He was practicing with the team for over a month before returning. If he had been activated off of LTIR any earlier than he did, the team would have been over the cap.
It seems to be the consensus that the lightning have circumvented the cap using this process. Everything they’ve done has been within the rules because the team had it in their back pocket to say when he is ready to be activated. “Back to full health” is a subjective term based on them deciding when he is fully and completely back to game shape. He could have been fully healed from the surgery for a long time, but the term “game shape” was likely how they kept him on LTIR for exactly as long as they wanted… and not a minute earlier.
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A whole lot of teams have held recovering players back until either a PO push or the POs themselves, this is not unusual. He was at most a couple weeks early (and he was way way ahead of the normal recovery schedule).