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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
It impacts Vegas if they wanted to pull a Stone again, but I don't think he hurts them with Pietrangelo who has pretty much retired.
You can exceed the "average replacement" but it means that player is ineligible to return for the remainder of the season or playoffs.
With Pietrangelo that won't be an issue.
They should have just created a provision where if a player is truly LTIR retired that he can be placed on a different list where he doesn't count against the cap. The whole LTIR thing for players like Pietrangelo and Price who are actually retired has always been weird.
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The problem is that these LTIR retirements are another cap circumvention. Marchand getting a 6 year contract at age 37, meaning it triggers the 35+ rules in the CBA, shows that they are going to play him until his body breaks down from age instead of some specific ailment and then put him on the LTIR until his contract runs out.
This is slightly different from Pietrangelo, Price, or Weber who signed contracts in good faith and are unable to play them out because of real issues but the last thing you want to do is create a special "LTIR retired" category that invites the bad faith version of this behaviour.