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Originally Posted by Jay Random
That doesn't work. To qualify for LTIR, the player has to be actually unfit to play, and the league is entitled to challenge any LTIR claim and have it reviewed by a neutral physician. If that physician determines that the player does not have a bona fide injury requiring him to miss at least 10 games or 24 days consecutively, the player can't go on LTIR and there is no cap relief. If the attempted circumvention is serious enough (like, say, trying to have $10 million worth of extra players on the active roster during the regular season, as some of you think Vegas can do), then the league can punish the team by a fine of up to $5 million, loss of draft picks, and even forfeiting games.
To my knowledge, no player has ever been put on phony LTIR simply so that another player could come off LTIR and be activated. I don't expect it to happen this time: 31 other teams have an interest in making sure it doesn't.
I've just outlined what the league could do. What the 31 teams can do is take a vote of the Board of Governors and order the league to take action.
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Yeah, the Kucherov situation was different in that he was injured enough to go on LTIR.... the shady part was he just conveniently stayed on LTIR until the first game of the playoffs.