Despite the last chapter of Edmonton Oilers“The season being written in the Stanley Cup final, sources indicate that the NHL plans to continue to examine the relief of the salary ceiling by Edmonton Using the long -term injury (LTRI) with striker Evander Kane in the days and weeks in advance.
The NHL may require more information to be satisfied that the Oilers respected collective negotiations when Kane returned to the second match of the round 1 against the Kings of Los Angeles After not having appeared in a single match during the regular season.
The NHL is still deliberate on the next steps. There is the potential for retroactive punishment if the league finds that the spirit of the ABC was violated. No team in the era of the salary ceiling has been punished for the use of the LTIR, despite the hot button problem and no shortage of complaints in recent years.
Until now, sources have said that the Oilers had respected all requests for information and medical opinions from the NHL, as is typical of any Ltir return scenario for the playoffs, which are examined by the League. It is not known exactly what the NHL can have found its problem when they continue to examine the circumstances.
Kane, 33, underwent surgery last September to repair two torn hip adductor muscles, two hernies and two torn lower abdominal muscles. It was an important procedure which on itself was to prevent Kane from leaving the range until the end of March, beyond the commercial deadline of March 7.
But Kane then underwent additional surgery on January 9 to eliminate congenital tumor type growth in his knee which still complicated his calendar. With knee surgery, he was forced to suspend his detoxification cure for groin surgery for a period of seven to eight weeks. He started to practice with the ilers at the end of February after the 4 nations break.
Kane was not authorized by the doctors to play in match 1 of the Stanley Cup qualifying series against Los Angeles, returning two days later for match 2. He collected six goals and six assists for 12 points during the EDMONTON race, including a goal in the Stanley Cup final. Kane was also whistled for 32 minutes of penalties in the final and was thrown moments of end of the season under a 10 -minute fault. He did not participate in the handshake of traditional congratulations with the champion Florida panthers.
Kane enters the last season of an $ 20.5 million agreement over five years and is expected to be commercial fodder this summer, the Oilers will require the flexibility of the salary ceiling. Any potential retroactive punishment of the NHL will be looming as each penny counts in Edmonton with extensions that start for Leon Draisaitl and probably Evan Bouchard.
The Oilers did not spend Kane’s money from Kane all season until the clarity of doctors in the last 24 hours preceded the deadline that Kane could not play before the playoffs.
GM Stan Bowman could have used this space to match the Blues St. Louis’ Offer sheets for Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg last August, or to exchange their replacements. In fact, when Edmonton exchanged for Trent Frederic in an agreement to three teams on March 4, they paid the Devils from New Jersey And Boston Bruins To each keep half of the Frederic agreement, which would have allowed them enough ceiling space to activate Kane in the regular season. It was only when they announced that Kane would not be able to return and exchange against defender Jake Walman that they used the space created by Kane on Ltir.
Kane was far from being on the level of the league to return from a Ltir injury in time for the playoffs. THE Toronto Maple Leafs’ Max Pacioretty returned to match 3 of the first round series of the Leafs against the Ottawa senators After being released since February 8. And Colorado Avalanche Captain Gabriel Landeskog returned for match 3 of the first round match of the AVS against the Dallas stars After missing nearly three civil years of action after an unprecedented knee procedure. Landeskog played matches with the Eagles of the AHL Colorado in the penultimate week of the NHL regular season in its process to return, but they would not have had the ceiling space required to activate it during the regular season. Matthew Tkachuk, Florida, also returned for match 1 of the second consecutive continuation of Lord Stanley in Florida, but the panthers had in fact the cap to activate it for the last games of the regular season following the suspension of 20 matches of Aaron Ekblad for drugs improving the performance – and Tkachuk was not eliminated.
There has been a wave of support at the GM level in recent years so that the league has tackled the use of the LTIR with return players for the playoffs. The teams allegedly alleged that the opponents deliberately hid the players on their ceiling until the playoffs, then spent this rescue money on the deadline for trade, only so that the hidden players return to the playoffs when there is no limitation of salary ceiling. In fact, the subject remains on the table during the current ABC negotiations between the NHL and NHL players’ association, with the idea of a “soft” salary ceiling for the playoffs discussed to potentially close the fault.
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