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Are there actually people who want a "playoff cap" who don't also believe Kucherov was deliberately held out? Because this is a fundamental disagreement with the cap being calculated as a pro-rated sum of daily cap hits for the entirety of the regular season. The cap has been around for 15-20 years, and I don't recall ever seeing people advocate for preventing teams from ever rostering a team whose summed cap hits exceed the cap, even for a short period. This would kill the trade deadline, and disincentivize teams from adding meaningful replacements for long term injuries. My impression is that the entire debate about the cap started this year, from a conspiracy theory about TB's handling of Kucherov. Is anyone complaining that Boston was "over the cap" because of the Taylor Hall addition?
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It isn’t an argument that the cap shouldn’t exist. It’s existed in this format for 18 years or whatever. You’re really just arguing for a more restrictive cap.
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Connor McDavid goes down with an injury 10 games into the season. Doctors say he might be back for the second round of the playoffs, if Edmonton gets there. The Oilers use the cap space gained by McDavid’s LTIR stint to acquire a good C with an 8M cap hit, at the cost of a 1st and a couple of good prospects. They trade for a D upgrade with a 3M hit at the deadline. Do people actually believe the Oilers should have to pull 11M or whatever in salary out of their lineup for cap reasons in the playoffs if McDavid is able to come back?
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Because a team's cap number is just the pro-rated cap hit of all players on their roster for every day of the regular season. That's why teams with 2M in cap space at the start of the year can add a 7M player at the deadline. Closing this "loophole" also kills the trade deadline, and for what? Does the NHL expect there to be teams that will start asking players to sit out entire seasons with fake injuries and come back for the playoffs? If so, there are probably ways to tackle the expected widespread fraudulent injuries that don't consist of completely changing the way the salary cap is calculated.
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How would they even do that? Teams have been “exceeding the cap” in this way with mid-season acquisitions since the cap was introduced.
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I think Hurl's team is the first I've ever faced in a 20-team league with 0 active starters. And he's still in playoff contention despite that.
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What won't be permitted?
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Rowdy Tellez to MIL for Trevor Richards and Bowden Francis
BTS replied to King's topic in Toronto Blue Jays Talk
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There isn't even a loophole. TB is maybe the only team in the league good enough to easily make the playoffs despite losing a top-3 player in world for the entire regular season. If Auston Matthews needs surgery this offseason and is going to be out the entire season, nobody is going to call the Leafs lucky because they get to allocate his salary cap hit to their own version of Tyler Johnson and Ryan McDonagh.
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lol The records resulted in her story being edited to correct at least one inaccuracy regarding the skull fracture.
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Every year many teams have playoff rosters that would exceed the regular season cap. This is such a stupid narrative.
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From what I’ve seen, the concussion was suggested using a lot of the same weasel words used to give people the impression that her skull was fractured, when in fact it wasn’t. If she had been diagnosed with a concussion, that would have likely been stated unequivocally.
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Don't forget Wrigley, Great American Ballpark, Truist Park, Target Field, and Kauffman.
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He's pretty much single-handedly tanking my season in BORED.
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Aroldis Chapman also sucks now.
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Rain delay
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#2 hitter Elvis Andrus hitting into the inning-ending DP.
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You Leafs fans think disappointment and incompetence is your ally? As an Ottawa fan I was born in it. Molded by it.
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Jeffrey Springs is available for a pick upgrade.
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This series is going about as expected.
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Pablo Lopez just got tossed for hitting Acuna, the first hitter of the game for Atlanta.
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Luba released a statement last night:
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Hasn’t MLB almost always acted immediately to place players on admin leave in these situations? Surprising, and maybe also telling of the status of the investigation, that they haven’t acted yet despite the huge amount of pressure.
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Deleted your post because of political content DigitalRock. This thread is about baseball and BDSM.
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Have you been reading any of the Twitter comments on this? 95% of them read like this. In the eyes of the Twitter-using public, Bauer is a rapist skull-fracturing woman beater who should be locked up for life. Even the Dodgers subreddit has almost unanimously buried him. I’m guessing that the Dodgers are legit concerned about the public backlash of continuing to roster him.
