With Mark Stone returning just in time for Game 1 of the playoffs against the Dallas Stars, I wanted to dig a bit deeper into the “loophole” that has allowed teams to operate over the Salary Cap in the past few years. And I also discuss what potential solutions might exist to this problem and why they haven’t been implemented already.
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It's in the Grey area but the league wants the best players playing in the playoffs, trades are exciting and it gives rebuilding teams more trade partners… not going anywhere anytime soon.
This is just dishonest.
Vegas didn't make the playoffs 1 of those years and yet in that same year played 7 games at the end of the season trying to get in. So pay attention buttercup.
As soon as the Canadian teams do it then its game over
If Vegas wins the Cup this year, fans are going to be pissed and the NHL will be forced to make changes.
This is the best solution I've heard mentioned: Players MUST be removed from LTIR prior to the start of Game 82, or they are not eligible to play in the playoffs.
They could do a percentage system, where you get a percentage of cap relief based on the percentage of regular season games remaining. That way the whole “players don’t get paid in the playoffs” argument isn’t affected but also makes it so that the super convenient pre-deadline injuries have less impact
The salary cap rules should remain the same for the entie full season. Anytime the player returns, any other player gets sent down so as not to exceed the cap ceiling. When the playoffs begin, no players can be brought back onto the team.
It's so simple and fair.
I am a VKG fan and I understand the dilemma here. Wouldn’t an easy fix be to enforce the salary cap throughout the playoffs?
The loophole needs to close.. THATS ALL.. simple, if you gain players by putting them in the LTR, those players that you gained either don’t play in the playoffs or the returning player doesn’t play in the playoffs
How about, if you're on LTIR, and you don't play game 82 of regular season, you don't play game 1 of playoffs, don't play game 81, you don't play game 2, and so on.
"They're not breaking any rules."
That's the point, and that's why the rules should be changed. Circumventing the salary cap to gain a competitive advantage shouldn't be permitted.
I feel it's legal cheating but with that been said, if the huge majority of teams is not against it, who am I to judge. Still looking forward for Vegas been eliminated by stars or avs or Oilers.
I think if you haven't played a game in the regular season, due to injury, or missed more then 41 games due to injury, you should be ineligible for the first or second round, accordingly to time on Longtime IR
Its a great video but you missed a key point. The NHL does not allow players to fake an injury for the All-Star game to then play in the next game. They know faking an injury is an issue. So why not just bar players who are "injured" every game between the trade deadline to the end of the season from playing the first four games of the playoffs. Suddenly…no more fake injuries.
simple rule change would be anyone on LTIR at deadline cant play in playoffs for any team
100% cheating.
benefits all non-canadian teams because nobody wants to play in canada, ha
tHEy AreNT BReaKIng rULes. silly you should have to field a team through play offs that adheres to the cap or just remove the cap completely
Why is there no salary cap in the playoffs though?
I don't like the idea of just saying if a guy gets hurt, tough shit, but if teams are just to keep doing this garbage they ruined it for everyone.
make it easy. if you finish the season on LTIR you don't play the playoffs. simple
Simple solution playoffs are still part of the current season and teams should be required to be cap compliant until the end of the cup finals.
I had no idea about Ryan Keslers groin thing got dang i cringe when i saw that
If you finish the season on LTIR then you can't play in the playoffs. It's simple, but I don't expect it to change.