The problem I have with the Knights' salary cap circumvention is that players are supposed to come off LTIR immediately when they are medically cleared to play, not when the team has cap room to accommodate them. There is no way that every year multiple high cap hit players are not medically fit to play the day before the playoffs and yet are medically fit to play the next day. This is an abuse of the LTIR rules that the NHL should not tolerate. The rule needs to be rewritten such that a player is not eligible for the playoffs if he is on LTIR at the end of the season, or that teams must also be cap compliant during the playoffs.
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