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Originally Posted by Jay Random
How much are they going to bribe the league's medical staff to approve the LTIR? And why will the other 31 teams just sit there and let the league do that?
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Won’t have to bribe them at all.
Player: “My neck has been hurting.”
Doctor: “Did you strain it or twist it in a game?”
Player: “Yeah. It’s been bothering me for a while. Last time this happened it took a couple months to heal up completely.”
Doctor: “Ok. We’ll check you week-to-week to see when you feel 100%.”
Doctor stamps approval for LTIR.
If a player says he feels pain or discomfort in any way, a doctor will likely approve of rest and recovery every single time. What’s he going to do? Say you’re lying, there’s nothing on the X-rays, and send the player back out there to play a super physical sport? No way. They would always lean on the side of caution.
As far as the other 31 teams… what could they do? What could/would the league do?
They could have video footage of Vegas management asking all the players at once if any of them have any nagging injuries - even very small ones - and, if they do, they should step up for the team and go on LTIR so that the team can stay together. There would be zero consequences. Management could say they didn’t want to risk injuries getting worse while also trading away players to fit in eichel only to have a depleted roster come playoffs so they chose to not force players to play through “injuries”. Done. There’s likely no way to fight back against Vegas in this case. They will absolutely get away with it.
The only way you could punish/stop them is if a player openly admitted to completely lying about injuries because they were told to by management to do so. Very unlikely.
Management in the case of Vegas will be basically giving the ultimatum to everyone on the team… either find some injuries amongst yourselves or some of you will get traded/put on waivers and it could cost us the ability to have a powerhouse come playoffs. You get paid a full salary either way.
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