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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The NHL situation has made this more confusing than it used to be. We used to rely on some sort of specific use of the word "retire" but now players are done, but don't retire, because instead they are placed on LTIR. So we've generally allowed those players to remain active, but their ratings take the hit going forward. That's what was done with Savard, Horton, Hossa, and others in the past.
I'm totally open to how to make this less ambiguous. But that's what creating the confusion, and generally where we try to draw upon how we've handled in the past.
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If a player is retired, he's retired. I don't see what the difference is all of a sudden. The only difference then with the players mentioned above is that they didn't announce they were retired
The list of guys in our league that are retired that are still allowed to be on rosters is growing. If the rules were applied teams would be forced to make trades and changes to restructure theirs.
There are even buy-out penalties that can be enforced, one of the things that should be considered when handing out UFA 1 way contracts.
We may be backing ourselves in a corner when we choose to enforce rules after turning the other way to others