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Originally Posted by butterfly
Au contraire, I think it's clever that they're doing it. There's no cheating about it, basic or otherwise. We have some GMs who have shown creativity and innovation within the rules of the CBA instead of Eeyore accepting the way things have always been done and banging their head into the wall waiting for someone to implement perpetual fairness, which has never existed.
Costs far more money to play single deck blackjack than infinite deck - wonder why?
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I disagree, the rules have been changed to benefit several GMs at opportune moments.
First there were the compliance buyouts, because the cap didn't increase and managers didn't plan for it. Then retained salary transactions were introduced, so teams could build super teams for the playoffs. The taxi squad was pretty much meant for cap circumvention, etc.
However, the biggest comparative advantage come from not being responsible for your bad contracts, or for giving out a contract for longer than the player's career. Hossa, Seabrook Weber, Price, M. Smith, and many more were placed on LTIR, instead of retiring strictly because it is a loophole, and its cap implications. Then you get to use those contracts as currency. Trade them to a team like ARI, so they can get to the cap floor(because insurance covers it), or exchange a bad contract for someone on LTIR(T. Johnson for Seabrook). IMO once a player spends more than two full seasons on LTIR he should be considered retired.
Only then we get into the playoffs loophole. Everyone thought that Tampa would need to dismentale its powerhouse team after the first cup. The solution: plan Kucherov's surgery so that he's back to start the season; I mean playoffs. The problem is that every NHLer is playing through something, so anyone could be placed on LTIR, and a doctor won't be able to prove they're not in pain.
Right now the top team's daily cap hit is:
Toronto $99.5M(including 75% retention on Lybushkin)
Tampa $98.8M
Vegas $97.7M(including 75% retention on Hanifin, 50% on Mantha, and 17% on Hertl)
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Cap: $83.5M
In comparison the Flames daily caphit is $80M right now.