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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I think that a simple solution is that in the playoffs, a team needs to be cap compliant. When a players is cleared from an injury, in order to return players from the roster must be made ineligible to play for the remainder of the playoffs.
There would not be an punishment, other than forcing roster players to finish their season early and have to watch from the sideline. This would also remove player incentive to want to participate in cap circumvention.
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Will this allow the player to have his name on the Cup even if he'll be sidelined for the rest of the playoffs? Isn't players on a winning team always have their name put on the Cup even if that player is sidelined through the whole playoffs as long as that player was on the roster before the end of the regular season? I think Robin Regehr (with the Kings) is one such a scenario that I can recall.
To really fix this, you'd want to close all loopholes. The best way is to ensure the active roster iced in the post-season is the same as that of the regular season.