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Originally Posted by blankall
He's back for basically the entire playoffs, so it's almost like free player "load management". The NBA has now made it illegal to rest the starters before the playoffs.
If the NHL wanted to show some balls, they would have banned him for the whole season. If he was caught with actual PEDs (as opposed to a recreational drug or prescription), that should have been the actual punishment, at a minimum. He'll still have gains from the PEDs in a couple of months FFS.
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The NHl doesn't prohibit it though, and there's no cap relief.
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There is cap relief, but also "load management" has nothing to do with cap relief. It's something NBA teams started doing a few years ago, resting starters against lesser teams once their playoff position is more or less secured (or earlier for contenders). Doesn't work the same in the NHL though as our best teams are closer to the middle of the pack and lower teams (save for 3 - 4 tanking teams each season) so you can't really be resting stars like the NBA, where a literal NBA all star sitting is generally the difference between a 130-85 and 110 - 85 score.
