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Originally Posted by dissentowner
It doesn't affect the league in this situation because the Leafs so have the cap room to do it but what happens when a team doesn't have the cap room and keeps a guy on IR because the rookie they brought up is killing it and they would rather have him instead of having to send him down for a guy they don't really want anymore? Are we ok if a guy is not working out out you can just put him on IR to open up a roster spot? That is the problem.
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So the problem is not with this situation, but with a different situation that, at this point, is still hypothetical. And the specific problem is with a team not having cap room, so it is, in fact, about cap circumvention, which is not happening in this case.
None of this makes the Leafs guilty of any wrongdoing.