Jordan Tootoo made $750k and then $700k in his last two seasons, he could have been sent down without any impact to the salary cap.
And in the end his shoulder had been bugging him, and the MRI likely would have shown issues, and he got surgery.
Teams smartly abuse LTIR by correctly timing when their guys have their surgery's (that's what they did with Kucherov and Stone)... but this isn't a situation where it's relevant at all since Tootoo could have been sent down with no cap impact.
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