CrusaderPi wrote on Fri, 23 February 2024 07:40

Skookum Jim wrote on Fri, 23 February 2024 01:41 CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 22 February 2024 21:00 Skookum Jim wrote on Thu, 22 February 2024 17:32 RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 22 February 2024 13:04 inverno76 wrote on Thu, 22 February 2024 13:59 Hunter and the Knights are infamous for doing sketchy things to circumvent CHL rules and although heavily speculated, they have never been caught. Sign me up. Tired of playing within the rules while teams like the Lightning and Vegas screw around without consequence. No kidding. Look at Vegas. Anyone shocked a few players all of a sudden are hurt a couple of weeks prior to the deadline? I just took a look at Vegas roster on IR.. Eichel ($10M), Lehner ($5M) and Bjornfot ($775K) are all on LTIR .. grand total of $16M in cap relief.. with Jack getting ready just in time for game #1 of playoffs... .. and Lehner never coming back off LTIR after hip surgery last year (they used Lehner's cap relief to sign Aiden Hill this past summer) They also currently have Stone ($10M), Carrier, and Dorofeyev on regular IR at $12M .. which could all be put on LTIR retrospectively.. creating lots of cap and roster "flexibility" :) Looks like Vegas is shaping up to have $10M in cap space available for a significant trade at the deadline.. Don't hate the player, hate the game. Actually don't even hate the game, we all signed up for this. The simple truth is the Oilers are playing the cap circumvention game as much as everyone else (Campbell, Smith, Brown) they're just not as good at it. Well then if we want to follow the Vegas lead, Oiler should just call up Campbell for a few games.. and find a doctor to diagnose Campbell has an "inner ear" condition that impairs his balance.. pretty easy.. presto $5M cap available.. ..kind of what Marion Hossa did for the Red Wings.. he had a chronic skin "rash" that "prevented" him from playing.. but he didn't retire.. just stayed on LTIR.. he got paid out in full.. and no cap hit to Red Wings.. Not hard to find a workable medical "opinion" somewhere.. the diagnosis for some conditions are inherently a little fuzzy, not definitive .. hard to prove true, or untrue.. just need the condition to be a legit possibility.. 🙂 Might be harder to find a doctor in Canada to do it though.. in the US no problem.. medical opinions are for sale. but.. that would never happen.. .. what would likely happen is the NHL would require the Oilers to provide indisputable medical evidence proving the accuracy of the diagnosis.. and/or the NHL would send in their own independent specialists to examine Campbell.. just to make sure everything is legit and there isn't any attempt at cap circumvention going on.. 😉 .. Oh.. and of course if they did try it, the Oilers would somehow lose a 2nd round draft pick at the end of the whole process just for making the attempt at playing the LTIR game. It worked with Ference and Smith but the Oilers are only savvy enough to pull that off in the offseason.

Didn't Smith actually retire?

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