Great read by Gary Lawless after the win last night! I do want to point this stretch of the article out though:
>This and that: There is no such thing as salary cap circumvention. It’s a conspiracy theory invention. The CBA, agreed upon by ownership and the players, sets out the rules by which the NHL and the salary cap system are governed. There are no loopholes. They rules are clear and must be followed. They can’t be skirted or whatever specious verb one wants to apply.
All teams must follow the rules in the same manner. What does vary, from club to club, are the resources managers have at their disposal as well as the skill of a team’s cap management staff.
Owners determine how much money they are willing to spend on their team. Cap managers look for opportunities and ways to use the CBA to their advantage.
There are no convenient injuries in the NHL. The league can and does ask for injury information on a regular basis. The use of Long Term Injury Relief is closely monitored.
Unfortunately no one has sustained more injuries than the Golden Knights in the past three seasons. The CBA stipulates a team can replace injured players but must be cap compliant when they come off LTIR. So, for Shea Theodore, his 38 games missed happened earlier in the season. Vegas had to make sure they had cap room for him to return. Mark Stone’s lacerated spleen happened later in the season. Stone’s return from an internal organ injury is an unknown but certainly it won’t be in the regular season. So Vegas, within the constraints of the CBA, acted accordingly in replacing its captain who suffered a dangerous injury.
NHL ownership is a competitive club of billionaires. They all want to win and are used to winning. They have legions of lawyers. They don’t let anyone get over on them. It just doesn’t happen.<
That is a very well-written way of telling these people accusing us of circumventing the cap, and all these people then drawing a negative connotation about us, to shut the fuck up, because they do not have a clue what they’re talking about, and that they’re just bitter that we pulled those moves off. Well said Gary, well said.
I also must agree that last night was certainly an identity win for the Knights, and being at that game, I could sense the energy, the heightened pace, and the more noticeable pockets of great play by the Knights that ultimately led to the win! It wasn’t a flawless win by any stretch, but it was a good, needed win against what’s been a good Detroit team this season!
Let this be the beginning of our next championship run!
by Steve_Hunts96
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EDIT: I messed up on quoting Lawless. This is the full quote ⬇️
>This and that: There is no such thing as salary cap circumvention. It’s a conspiracy theory invention. The CBA, agreed upon by ownership and the players, sets out the rules by which the NHL and the salary cap system are governed. There are no loopholes. They rules are clear and must be followed. They can’t be skirted or whatever specious verb one wants to apply.
>All teams must follow the rules in the same manner. What does vary, from club to club, are the resources managers have at their disposal as well as the skill of a team’s cap management staff.
>Owners determine how much money they are willing to spend on their team. Cap managers look for opportunities and ways to use the CBA to their advantage.
>There are no convenient injuries in the NHL. The league can and does ask for injury information on a regular basis. The use of Long Term Injury Relief is closely monitored.
>Unfortunately no one has sustained more injuries than the Golden Knights in the past three seasons. The CBA stipulates a team can replace injured players but must be cap compliant when they come off LTIR. So, for Shea Theodore, his 38 games missed happened earlier in the season. Vegas had to make sure they had cap room for him to return. Mark Stone’s lacerated spleen happened later in the season. Stone’s return from an internal organ injury is an unknown but certainly it won’t be in the regular season. So Vegas, within the constraints of the CBA, acted accordingly in replacing its captain who suffered a dangerous injury.
>NHL ownership is a competitive club of billionaires. They all want to win and are used to winning. They have legions of lawyers. They don’t let anyone get over on them. It just doesn’t happen.
The thing that people look past with all the conspiratorial talking points is that EVERYBODY plays injured during the playoffs whereas most players sit out injuries during the season.
Just because Mark Stone was back Game 1 last year and Kucherov was back in Game 1 for Tampa that one year doesn’t mean that they were faking injuries…it more likely means they were playing through an injury and were not fully healed yet.
Was anybody mad when Ekblad played through 3 major injuries in the finals, any one of which would’ve benched him during the season? Of course not…it’s the playoffs and that’s expected.