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Originally Posted by Jay Random
LTIR was never intended to help teams acquire injured players via trade. It's a pretty freakish circumstance that put Vegas in a position to use it that way. I personally would wait to see if it happens twice before I consider it a loophole big enough to need closing.
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Ah. I’m with you.
In that case what LTIR gave Vegas was time - the downside being a struggling team but we’ll ignore that for now. Rather than trading Reilly and McNabb for maybe a couple 3rds they can wait to the deadline and get a couple 2nds.
In the flames case the would have to have traded salary to Buffalo or elsewhere for whatever they could get. And probably at a discount.
This feels like luck more than a systemic issue, to me.