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Originally Posted by dino7c
lol @ talking about the Flames doing it with Monahan next season so same same:
Vegas currently has 7 players on LTIR...that is the NHL record for players on LTIR at a given time.
Unless I am missing someone that means they have had 11 players on LTIR this season...also a record
Odd the capped out team that added a 10M player would have the "worst" injury luck in NHL history
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In another one of your many misconceptions of the cap, CBA, and LTIR, you have conflated having long term injuries with the usage of the LTIR. The last time this question was asked it was pointed out that (at the time) the Coyotes had at least six players with long term injuries eligible for the LTIR. But they had 0 players on the LTIR.
The LTIR is only beneficial if the replacement player for the injured player would otherwise have the team go over the cap. There is, however, a major disadvantage of using the LTIR should a player miraculously recover. In an ironic twist, Kesler is not on the LTIR because there was never a benefit for the Ducks to put them there.
In most circumstances an injury to Bischoff would not result in him being placed on the LTIR, Vegas cap strapped themselves so they had to do it.
But we're now left with this. Vegas either knew in November when they acquired Eichel that Stone would be injured in February in order to activate him, they then would fool the entire league by pretending to trade Dadonov at the deadline knowing he was ineligible to be traded for no other reason to keep the perception that they would trying to get compliant despite not breaking any CBA rules anyways or they acquired Eichel thinking that when he was healthy the would make the required moves to activate him. Occam's razor clearly favours the former, but I just don't know why they didn't use that crystal balls of theirs to look beyond February.