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Originally Posted by Macindoc
With their cap shenanigans and continuing to keep now healthy players on LTIR to remain “cap compliant” rather than making the necessary salary dump trades, I certainly don’t want to see Vegas make the playoffs and take advantage of a $90+M roster. They still could have made salary dump trades after the deadline to be compliant with the part of the LTIR rule that states that players may not remain on IR when they are fit to play. VGK’s attempt to do a salary dump trade at the deadline for a player already on IR showed that they did intend to activate a player following that proposed trade, or the transaction would have otherwise hurt their playoff prospects.
If the Golden Knights miss the playoffs this year, that will be their just reward.
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I would rather they not either. But it's looking like LA is starting to fall apart.
Them being way over the cap isn't going to guarantee them playoff success either. We don't know how well all of the players who were out will click once they start playing again. Practice isn't the same as playing games. It might be good enough to get them past the Oilers' suspect goaltending and defense but not so easy against the Flames with Sutter behind the bench.