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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
This is the solution IMO.
And it's funny if you look at Vegas...
Eichel, Stone, Hertl, Karlsson, Marchessault, Barbashev, Roy, Mantha, Stephenson, Howden, Amadio, Cotter = $53.7M
Pietrangelo, Theodore, McNabb, Whitecloud, Hague, Hanifin = $23.25M
Hill, Thompson: $5.7M
Total= $83.15M
For all the noise about Vegas cheating their best dressed roster come playoff time actually is still under the Salary Cap. And it was the same thing last year.
It allows them to build depth and squeeze these guys in, but it's easy to build a 20 man roster with most of their best players that is still below the cap of $83.5M.
You can't dress Carrier / Kolesar and have to dress Cotter, and Martinez can't play (not sure he would anyways with those other 6), but not like they have to make any really tough decisions.
And since they are in LTIR all season long most of the time they can't accrue cap space like another team can, any team can be over the cap in the playoffs if they use their cap accrual space wisely...not just LTIR teams.
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On top of that (and really good points about Vegas btw) I think it makes the most sense as a solution because it’s the least disruptive. It allows the rule to function as intended while eliminating any edge cases that would really give teams an unfair advantage.
One thing people don’t seem to really recognize is how this process also helps the teams moving these guys get more value for them. That’s why I especially disagree with the idea of eliminating retention. For a team like Calgary trying to move Hanifin, the return starts to look a lot worse if you’re saying that playoff teams near the cap or into their LTIR usage can’t even make an offer or wouldn’t be able to play the player in the playoffs if they did.