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Originally Posted by GioforPM
This is what I was suggesting. You can bring on replacement players all you want. But in the POs when your guys are healthy, you can’t ice a team $10M over the cap. You have to scratch guys. TB would have had to lose some fairly significant players that they signed knowing Kucherov would be gone all year. Vegas can’t count on Stone, Patches, Karlsson and Eichel returning together.
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Yeah that’s a good way to go about it. Perhaps even allow the on-ice lineup to be ~$2M above the cap, just so teams could still try and get an edge at the trade deadline.