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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
You have to be a real powerful team or in a garbage division to pull it off. Tampa was powerhouse enough that they could go the entire season without Kucherov and still make the playoffs. If they were fighting for a playoff spot and needed him it would be a different story.
For Vegas - assuming Calgary and Edmonton keep at their current level - they will need the rest of the division to suck - which is entirely possible.
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It's not even the "coming back from the playoffs" thing that bugs me about Vegas. It's the "using their LTIR they got from injured players to add a $10M franchise C, who was on another team's LTIR and is now on their LTIR, giving even more LTIR cap relief to get more players while doing nothing to help their immediate injury problems, which is what LTIR cap relief is meant for."
Super long sentence short: You shouldn't be allowed to spend LTIR cap relief on other players who are already on LTIR with their current teams. (I believe other limits should be imposed as well, but the concept of not being able to spend injury relief on more injured players should be a no-brainer.)