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Originally Posted by Wolven
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.
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Fair, maybe make it an application or something that is reviewed on a case by case basis. In the case of Pietrangelo and Price I think those would be two legitimate circumstances where it would be pretty obvious that this wasn't done with cap circumvention in mind.