[Sylvanfan]

The only issue with the LTIR is that the player will want to get back on the ice to earn another contract at some point. So unless you can swap another body for when that happens you hit that bind again.

Really have not heard much about Monahan's recovery but they shut him down earlier last year and he will have had more time to rehab than the previous year. So unless he has had a setback, doesn't seem like he would be on LTIR for too long.

Would be different had he played thru this and had the surgery after the playoffs where he likely would have been really damaged.

My suspicion is that he'll play at the start of the season, and who knows what you get out of him.