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Originally Posted by butterfly
Smith is clearly cheating. I don't know about Stone because he seems to be made of glass. Played 80 games once in his entire career. That stuff has been going on since the Ottawa days.
Another commenter mentioned "miraculously" being ready for Game 1, which I think is what happened in Kucherov's case. I don't even think Kucherov played in the regular season that year.
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He didn't. But his surgery (which admittedly was done late in the off season) had a recovery window which should have taken to about two weeks before POs). He delayed his return by at least that much (he was skating on his own).
The cleanup on that one is hard though - who's to tell a guy coming off major surgery when he's ready? Healing rates differ wildly.
I get the frustration. Team who don't cheat or at least play the cap game hard are not rewarded for it. But that's not part of the unlevel playing field since any team can do it and get away with it it seems.