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Old 11-04-2021, 12:29 AM   #1016
Macindoc
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
The trade deadline. Once that passes, they can exceed the cap.

Vegas has 19 games after the trade deadline, almost a quarter of the season. If they somehow managed to work the LTIR in their favour by not activating all of them at once, that is a good chunk of games to make up some ground before the playoffs even start.
What are you suggesting, a weekly musical chairs of LTIR? "Sorry, we've decided that you lot of players whose salary cap just happens to add up to $10M, are going to be injured this week, because we want Eichel to play"? Then sit a different $10M of players the next week, under the guise of injury?

Either Vegas has to dump $10M of salary, or Eichel can't return until the playoffs. There is no other realistic scenario.
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