Steve Dangle, Adam Wylde and Jesse Blake discuss the Maple Leafs decision to put John Klingberg on LTIR and what it means for the defesive core moving forward.
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Vetted by the NHL – HAHAHA. Just like the all the other abuses of medical clearances and injury issues. Just like Kucherov taking the year off.
Most NHL players are playing somewhat injured anyways, how can the NHL or a doctor say no this guys doesn’t have chronic back pain or damaged ligaments when they objectively do.
If guys claim they feel better around playoff time and play injured during the whole thing just to go back to LTIR the next season it isn’t cap circumvention, they simply played injured, there is ways a team could abuse those rules by maxing LTIR with good veterans with chronic injury issues, but thats purely in theory and outside the realm of reality.
I’ll baptise that new hypothetical category of player/contract : LTIR Vet Playoff Mercs.
Leafs are not ever cup bound unless the cap goes to like 110 million. And even then their gm would sign forwards over defensemen and goalies, so thats what
15 million in underperforming UFAs on LTIR. How incredibly convenient.
Jessie you're assuming that these NHL teams are honest and that the NHL is honest lol …money my friend money
The 3rd dpair,first line and samsonov looked lost last night
Dont the leafs always have on someone on ltir every year what a surprise
This organization is worse than the Astros
What happened to "Watch a Leafs Game With Steve Dangle"? Haven't seen a single game this season.
Of course the Leafs are circumventing the salary cap. They always do when obviously bad contracts predictably go badly…Muzzin, Murray, and Klingberg. The real laugh is that even with a $100m team, they'll still lose to cap compliant teams. This is because they're poorly constructed and poorly managed.
The Leafs signed John Klingberg knowing he wasn't well, they also knew that they'd not have to give up assets to sign him, and if necessary they could circumvent his cap hit by exploiting some dumb LTIR rules that benefit wealthy teams at the expense of poor teams. Yeah…that's cap circumvention however you guys choose to employ mental gymnastics to excuse it.
King fan here. Love SDNP but I am not a Leaf fan and if they eventually win a cup I don't know if i will continue to follow and how much of Steve's fan misery is what attracts me to the show. As far as the tin foil "the NHL rigs everything to help the Leafs" conspiracy theories they all fall into flat earth level nonsense. New York, LA and in Canada Toronto are the 3 biggest TV markets. If the NHL wanted to rig the Cup all 3 of these franchises would have far more Cup finals, far more cups.
Yall were so snarky and bitter about Tampa and Vegas, but hey, now that the worst player on your team is getting knocked out by a "long flight," suddenly you're beating the LTIR defense drum. Love to see it!
Adam Wyylde…..time for Keto
Sad story for John???…..he's collecting 4 million bucks. Toronto needs a bonafide defenseman. It will be painful but somebody needs to get traded for a defenseman.
Ryan Reeves has outscored Klingberg.
The difference with Tampa and Vegas is, they had players who were healthy but they held them out until the playoffs (Specifically Kucherov). The players Toronto places on LTIR (Muzzin, Murray, Lupul, Clarkson, etc) have all remained there and never come back to play a game. Kucherov was fully practicing for weeks before coming back in the playoffs, but stayed out so Tampa did not have face cap consequences.
We need more views. OK so let's take our 2+hr videos and cut them into 10min shorts…I kinda can't stand that!!!
Is Steve wearing crocs too? Lol
If he ends up on Robidas island after the Leaf’s acquire another defenseman to replace him before he chooses to have surgery, then it is cap circumvention.
Of the team forces him to have surgery, it’ll be the same as Buffalo not allowing Eichel to have his surgery.