It was for illustration purpose but there's other issues when you aren't banking cap space. It limits your roster moves. You can't bring up a player making more than the player you're sending down. If there's a minor injury to a player and he doesn't go on LTIR himself, you can't bring up someone to replace him for a bit. If there's multiple injuries that's how you end up playing short handed. Any bonus you pay out on an ELC gets deferred to next season. There is a lot of reasons to avoid using the LTIR.
However, if you're already forced to be using the LTIR might as well go ham like Toronto has done.
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