It's simple to me. Does anyone believe that Kucherov just all of a sudden came off of LTIR ready for action in the playoffs? No he was healthy before that. A healthy player should be activated off of LTIR immediately. Simply no stashing of a player until the playoffs. If in that situation, you can't activate the player when he is healthy. That player is then deemed ineligible for the playoffs.
- MJL

Would never happen.

I mean...this is just blatant bullpoop.
- jmatchett383

Joseph how are you doing?

Ok, so if it must be done that way why not drop the LTIR exemption to a non-lineup exemption so teams can legally get exempt on healthy players cap hits.

Ie. the flames tell lucic to sit in the press box for the rest of the season so they can add a player at the deadline worth 5 million aav.

Teams are essentially doing this already with saying healthy players are injured so why not just make it legal
- RedC21

That's not what teams are really doing. When a team places a player on LTIR, they have to submit medical documentation to the league. That documentation can be challenged by the league.

I'm not following how what you suggest changes anything.

I'm not a fan of this idea.
I sent this idea to Ek and Kevin but I doubt they'll see it.
When trading for a UFA over 31 years old, for a 10 day window leading to the trade deadline, teams receiving the player in trade can use the BASE salary instead of the AVV as the value towards the cap.
This number is frequently much lower than the AAV and as the player is a declining asset and a UfA at seasons end, it will promote trades and create deadline excitement

I'm not a fan of this idea.
I sent this idea to Ek and Kevin but I doubt they'll see it.
When trading for a UFA over 31 years old, for a 10 day window leading to the trade deadline, teams receiving the player in trade can use the BASE salary instead of the AVV as the value towards the cap.
This number is frequently much lower than the AAV and as the player is a declining asset and a UfA at seasons end, it will promote trades and create deadline excitement
- Clutch.Oiler76

Won't happen. Think about cap recapture and why that is in place. The league wants at the end of a players contract for the money paid in salary to be the same as the AAV counted. I keep reading ideas with no understanding of the salary cap and why it is in place and what it does.

How about we get rid of the cap entirely? Small & mid-market teams will have to compete. A small market team like Edmonton did quite well in the pre-cap era. The highest payroll rarely wins it all. Look at the Yankees over the past few decades. Look at how long Detroit dominated before they finally won the cup. Get back to a time when team owners owned teams as a status symbol or trophy, not as a primary source of income.

How about we get rid of the cap entirely? Small & mid-market teams will have to compete. A small market team like Edmonton did quite well in the pre-cap era. The highest payroll rarely wins it all. Look at the Yankees over the past few decades. Look at how long Detroit dominated before they finally won the cup. Get back to a time when team owners owned teams as a status symbol or trophy, not as a primary source of income.
- bluelineenforcer

There is no chance for that unfortunately.