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Originally Posted by Macindoc
But it’s still not ideal for parity. All the Oilers have to do is put Nurse and Bouchard on LTIR during the regular season, replace them with real defencemen and some depth forwards with the cap relief, then continue to sit them during the playoffs.
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Unless a player is medically certified to be unable to play for the entire season including playoffs, putting him on LTIR only gives you cap relief equal to the league average salary. The Oilers would only get about $8 million in LTIR space for both those players – and that's assuming they both consented not to play for an entire year, which I very much doubt.
Then they have to come up with assets from somewhere to trade for the replacement players. They're already trading away 2029 picks, for Pete's sake. There isn't much more in that well.
All that work, just to shore up a team that is below average right now, would not affect league parity in the slightest.