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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Has to be for a full 30 days or 10 games, since that is the minimum for LTIR. What star player will consent to sit in the press box for a whole month leading up to the playoffs?
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Kucherov for one? I think many players would opt to rest up for the playoffs at a chance to win a Cup, if they had a good reason to. Every year on garbage day, we hear about players playing through injuries that they could have justifiably been pulled from the line-up for. It probably won't be hard for Vegas to find high paid players that could use the rest because they are playing through pain. The caveat being that they are in the playoff picture. It makes it easier if Eichel is being activated as well as it wouldn't be a net loss in talent.
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Tell that to the Flames the year Regehr was injured with 9 games to go, and they couldn't call up a replacement because he could not be put on LTIR.
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That wasn't planned. Obviously any team looking to take advantage of the LTIR will not be doing it with only 9 games left.
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‘Everyone knows’, in this case, means ‘some reporter tweeted that Kucherov looked good skating, so a bunch of yahoos invented a conspiracy theory that he was ready to go right at that moment.’
In fact, the Lightning activated him off IR right at the end of his expected recovery time. It just happened to be after the end of the regular season.
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Agreed, Tampa and Kucherov carefully considered the timing of his surgery, the type of surgery that most players get done in the off season.