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Originally Posted by sureLoss
For Vegas, if enough major players are knocked out, they could just write off the season and acquire Eichel with plans to start next season fresh.
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I know it would be within the boundaries of the CBA to do so, but I think it really works against the spirit of the agreement. The whole idea of allowing salaries on LTIR to not count against your team was to help teams remain competitive in their chase for the playoffs, and not allow an injury to a high priced player be a death sentence for a season. I don't think the LTIR was dreamed up so a team could hide a franchise player, that would put them over the cap, until the post season where he would then propel that team to a championship. I also don't think it was put there to hide a potential franchise player until the next season when your team is already over the cap and would have $17.3M in salary on IR and another $12.5M on LTIR. Allowing a franchise like this to ad an additional $10M to LTIR would be criminal.