Yes. It takes away the doubt and questioning. Cap should apply to playoffs.
rethrast
No dynasties since the Oilers
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A great man once said, if you ain’t cheatin you not trying. The salary cap been tree fity for like half a decade. What’s a GM to do?
EyeHeartBidets
Can’t be done. Stupid question.
The NHL created the problem by insisting on a hard cap. Because it exists, LTIR must exist since the only other option that works in the NHL’s made up internal economy is unlimited compliance buyouts which the PA wouldn’t agree to unless it didn’t count against their 50% of HRR.
A soft cap would allow teams with injury problems to go above the cap if they want, but unlike now, that cap overage would be recaptured as league wide sharable revenue
Prestigious_Team3134
I’m not familiar with all the details of LTIR but could the nhl just make it so any player placed on LTIR can’t play in the playoffs?
booksmctrappin
Vegas is not a dynasty 🤦♂️
Ginger-Beefcake
Stone shouldn’t be on this.
-EatTheRich
Yes, but not until next year so the Avs can use it with Landeskog
JerbearCuddles
Until a Canadian team really benefits from it, it’s not a problem. But I guess you could argue Toronto popularized it with « Robidas island. »
weezeloner
No team wants to change the rules in case they find themselves in a similar situation.
There is no good « fix » to this issue.
Ban LTIR players from participating in playoffs? Yeah right. I can’t imagine teams agreeing to that.
Make teams carry cap hit? That would doom any team that lost a star player. Lose a player and have no chance to replace him? Can’t see many teams going for that.
mynamehere999
If you can show up after not playing in an nhl game for months and jump into the playoffs without missing a beat, all the power to you. The only reason anyone is having this conversation is because kucherov is such a freak of nature that he just showed up and led the playoffs in scoring after being out for so long. The regular season and the playoffs are such different animals 99% of that league can’t just jump in and be effective in the playoffs
Swimming-Fan7973
This is a tired and dumb take. They’re not circumventing anything. There is no cap. They knew what they were doing when they allowed this, it wasn’t a loophole suddenly discovered when Kucherov got hurt.
abassassasssin
Only change i would make is let teams pay out a whole contract immediately if someone is forced into early retirement by injury. Dont make it stick on their cap for years and let them just pay out the whole remainder of the contract in one big lump sum
itisntreallythateasy
I don’t think the rules should be reversed, and others in this thread do a good job of outlining that argument. What I think should be done is make players on LTIR at the time of the trade deadline ineligible for the playoffs, much like how a player acquired in a trade after the deadline is ineligible. Forces teams to get cap compliant by the deadline, since a star like kucherov or stone would have to be off LTIR by middle of the season, but still allows teams to use LTIR if there’s a player they know will not come back that season
Nin9RingHabitant
Just get rid of the fans thing already. Baseball does fine without it.
Scissors4215
No they shouldn’t. A better rule though would’ve if a player ends the season on LTIR then they are ineligible for the first round of the playoffs.
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What dynasties ? But yes they should
Yes. It takes away the doubt and questioning. Cap should apply to playoffs.
No dynasties since the Oilers
A great man once said, if you ain’t cheatin you not trying. The salary cap been tree fity for like half a decade. What’s a GM to do?
Can’t be done. Stupid question.
The NHL created the problem by insisting on a hard cap. Because it exists, LTIR must exist since the only other option that works in the NHL’s made up internal economy is unlimited compliance buyouts which the PA wouldn’t agree to unless it didn’t count against their 50% of HRR.
A soft cap would allow teams with injury problems to go above the cap if they want, but unlike now, that cap overage would be recaptured as league wide sharable revenue
I’m not familiar with all the details of LTIR but could the nhl just make it so any player placed on LTIR can’t play in the playoffs?
Vegas is not a dynasty 🤦♂️
Stone shouldn’t be on this.
Yes, but not until next year so the Avs can use it with Landeskog
Until a Canadian team really benefits from it, it’s not a problem. But I guess you could argue Toronto popularized it with « Robidas island. »
No team wants to change the rules in case they find themselves in a similar situation.
There is no good « fix » to this issue.
Ban LTIR players from participating in playoffs? Yeah right. I can’t imagine teams agreeing to that.
Make teams carry cap hit? That would doom any team that lost a star player. Lose a player and have no chance to replace him? Can’t see many teams going for that.
If you can show up after not playing in an nhl game for months and jump into the playoffs without missing a beat, all the power to you. The only reason anyone is having this conversation is because kucherov is such a freak of nature that he just showed up and led the playoffs in scoring after being out for so long. The regular season and the playoffs are such different animals 99% of that league can’t just jump in and be effective in the playoffs
This is a tired and dumb take. They’re not circumventing anything. There is no cap. They knew what they were doing when they allowed this, it wasn’t a loophole suddenly discovered when Kucherov got hurt.
Only change i would make is let teams pay out a whole contract immediately if someone is forced into early retirement by injury. Dont make it stick on their cap for years and let them just pay out the whole remainder of the contract in one big lump sum
I don’t think the rules should be reversed, and others in this thread do a good job of outlining that argument. What I think should be done is make players on LTIR at the time of the trade deadline ineligible for the playoffs, much like how a player acquired in a trade after the deadline is ineligible. Forces teams to get cap compliant by the deadline, since a star like kucherov or stone would have to be off LTIR by middle of the season, but still allows teams to use LTIR if there’s a player they know will not come back that season
Just get rid of the fans thing already. Baseball does fine without it.
No they shouldn’t. A better rule though would’ve if a player ends the season on LTIR then they are ineligible for the first round of the playoffs.
Should they? Yes will they? No