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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Again, you are making stuff up. Go show me where I claimed Landeskog will be 100% healthy for game 1? As I replied to T99 he could be right that Landeskog will not be playing in game 1 or might not play at all. I asserted that teams keep how far along players actually are and that is just common knowledge. If you have to make stuff up to try and win a debate you have clearly lost.
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You might not have said he's 100% healthy...but you (or maybe somebody else) has been arguing that they are keeping players that could play in the regular season out of games to avoid the cap, and that they will play game 1.
And last year for Mark Stone I think that was the case, and was 100% BS that his chronic back injury was too bad to play game 82 but not serious enough to play in the playoffs. (Although last year the Knights didn't take advantage of it to nearly the same extent as this year and the dressed roster for much of the playoffs was actually under the cap).
But I do think it's different this year.
I still think it's unlikely Landeskog plays game 1 if at all in the playoffs. He hasn't been a full participant in practice, hasn't been cleared for contact (To my knowledge), and still looks to be skating pretty gingerly from the videos I've seen. Could be just playoff posturing but they said yesterday that he wasn't close to returning yet still
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...turn-not-close
Now if he plays game 1 then I will 100% admit I'm wrong, but I honestly would be very surprised if that is the case.
In Stone's case I think it's the same thing this year too. Stone is skating but not yet cleared for contact with his injury. His injury return timeline always lined up with the start / middle of round 1, and similar injuries in the past to players had similar return time frames.
It was honestly a combination of sheer luck, and convenient timing that his injury occured when it did that it allowed the Knights to completely take advantage of the loophole to add Hanifin and Hertl.
He might return for game 1...but in his case it would actually be returning from his injury early to play in the playoffs than it would be holding a healthy player out to finish the regular season based on similar recovery timelines for his injury.