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Originally Posted by flamesgod
Worked pretty good for Tampa. If there was no loophole the league wouldn’t be looking at addressing this issue.
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They looked.
They aren't changing anything.
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While a few general managers sitting around the table for Tuesday’s three-hour meeting might have voiced their displeasure in seeing Nikita Kucherov bragging about the Tampa Bay Lightning being $18 million over the cap and winning the 2021 Stanley Cup, there’s no real desire to do away with the LTIR mechanisms.
The subject wasn’t even broached during the seven hours GMs spent together for Monday’s meeting, and it only took up about 30 minutes of Tuesday’s meeting.
“We all get sometimes focused in on recency bias,” said Calgary Flames GM Brad Treliving. “The reality is we’ve had a cap for 17 years and if there has been a grey area of it, it’s been maybe once or twice.
“And the league does a very good job; you can’t just put somebody on LTI and add to your cap without the league going through that with a fine-tooth comb. There’s been legitimate injuries. The way the system’s set up, you can do certain things. I don’t necessary look at it as abusive. Are there areas that need to be tightened up? Maybe. But the sentiment in the room there wasn’t that it’s fundamentally broken.”
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https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/nhl-gms...ceived-abuses/