NHL General Managers complaining about Kelly McCrimmon and the Vegas Golden Knights exploiting Long Term Injured Reserve only have themselves to blame for what they deem to be a problem. For years, teams have been given a free pass at terming injuries as ‘upper body’ or ‘lower body’ and then being allowed to term the length of time players are out of the line-up as ‘week to week’ or ‘day to day’ or ‘indefinitely’. Seldom do you hear of a specific injury with a specific timeline to come back. If the NHL made this very fundamental change with regards to injury reporting, it would be a lot more challenging for any team to utilize LTIR as a form of vacation time for top stars in order to circumvent the cap. I should also point out that while it seems as though Vegas is the only club doing this, the rule is sitting right there for every team to take advantage of it. It’s not like what the Knights are doing is ‘unfair’.
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NHL General Managers complaining about Kelly McCrimmon and the Vegas Golden Knights exploiting Long Term Injured Reserve only have themselves to blame for what they deem to be a problem. For years, teams have been given a free pass at terming injuries as ‘upper body’ or ‘lower body’ and then being allowed to term the length of time players are out of the line-up as ‘week to week’ or ‘day to day’ or ‘indefinitely’. Seldom do you hear of a specific injury with a specific timeline to come back. If the NHL made this very fundamental change with regards to injury reporting, it would be a lot more challenging for any team to utilize LTIR as a form of vacation time for top stars in order to circumvent the cap. I should also point out that while it seems as though Vegas is the only club doing this, the rule is sitting right there for every team to take advantage of it. It’s not like what the Knights are doing is ‘unfair’.