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Originally Posted by stemit14
They don’t need them all to sit. Just eichel. The LTIR for all their injured players right now just lets them acquire eichel without sending back much salary (just enough for Buffalo to reach the cap). Then eichel can be the one that stay on LTIR during the entire regular season unless someone like Stone gets injured again and is put on LTIR so eichel can come in. I feel like - just like Tampa last year - it is going to play out so obviously by design with the league just letting it happen. After all, Tampa set the precedent for it already. Absolutely everyone knew what they were doing before the season even started last year… because last summer was when they were supposed to have to gut their team. They got to delay it by a year and bought themselves another cup.
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The question then becomes whether the NHL approves a trade which is clearly structured specifically for the purposes of cap circumvention. It would be a much worse look than the Tampa Bay situation, which the team construed as a most fortunate aligning of the planets, and was at least loosely based on commonly-accepted recovery timelines and on a player already on their roster. The NHL has to approve trades, and a precedent has been set by the league voiding a trade. Allowing a trade clearly designed to allow Vegas to circumvent the cap would make the NHL complicit in that cap circumvention, as opposed to the TBL situation, in which the league basically said that the Lightning did not break any existing rules, so there was nothing the league could do about it.
Also, how will Eichel feel if they sit him for cap circumvention purposes and that causes him to miss the Olympics? He might not play ball the way that Kucherov did.