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Originally Posted by getbak
That was apparently one of the things that they were going to discuss at the GM meetings this week (I don't know if it was). The suggestion was that you'd only be able to put a player on LTIR if he was injured while playing for your team.
It would still allow for trades like the Coyotes acquiring a bunch of injured/retired contracts to be used to reach the cap floor, but you wouldn't be able to do something like the Eichel trade or the trades Tampa did last year to add the Gaborik and Nilsson contracts.
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I'm guessing GM's didn't like the idea because they like being able to trade players on LTIR.