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Originally Posted by dino7c
A team shouldn't be allowed to trade for a player during the season that puts you 10M over the cap.
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God forbid, but if Monahan were to start the season on LTIR would you be opposed if the Flames exceeded a cap hit of 82M next year? Or would you find it distasteful like the Knights are doing?
It's not really a loophole when the it's the entire point of the LTIR. An LTIR that already closed the loophole by requiring teams get cap compliant before activating players and a stipulation that the league can review with a neutral doctor if players are put on there when not injured.
Bringing up the Dadonov trade as though cap dump trades don't happen regularly by the continued insistence that they acquired a player on LTIR (which meant nothing to the Knights whether Kesler was included or not). I mean there's far bigger cap dump trades to make note of, Marleau for example. The conspiracy that Stone was healthy but bidding his time faking his injury when there was no need for him to fake it. And the hyperbole that they wanted a 100M roster for the playoffs. Those are what prompted the discussion.
But in reality, if it was up to Vegas, if the LTIR
shenanigans didn't happen, if players stayed healthy, after Eichel was ready to go they would have had this 23 man roster:
Kolesar
Stephenson
Roy
Marchessault
Karlsson
Janmark
Carrier
Smith
Amadio
Howden
Pacioretty
Stone
Eichel
Patrick
Pietrangelo
Theodore
McNabb
Coghlan
Whitecloud
Hague
Martinez
Lehner
Thompson
Only moves of note are Dadonov traded, Brossoit moved.
82M combined cap hit, 23 man roster that would have been cap compliant because of the banked cap prior to acquiring Eichel. Instead they acquired Eichel then ran into additional injury problems, then when they tried to fix it they got shot down by the league in the Dadonov trade. There was never this 100M roster plan for the playoffs, they wanted to get
compliant, they wanted to get everyone playing, so that they wouldn't have a player like Smith (if healthy) sitting when they are about to miss the playoffs. It was that their plan didn't work that they have this inflated payroll and allegedly healthy Smith sitting on the sidelines watching his team. Which is hilarious and we should laugh at them but some of the conspiracies just show a lack of understanding of the CBA and cap.