REPORT: Boston Bruins are being ACCUSED of 'bending' an NHL rule

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Ryan
March 29, 2023 (4:07 PM)

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During the 2020-21 season, the Tampa Bay Lightning were missing one of their best players in Nikita Kucherov for the entire regular season due to him recovering from an injury.

Controversy sparked though when the playoffs began for them to defend their Stanley Cup title, and Kucherov was completely healthy and ended up leading the playoffs in points en route to taking home the Tampa Bay Lightning's second straight Stanley Cup.

What the issue was here was the Tampa Bay Lightning were up against the Salary Cap and couldn't afford to take Kucherov off LTIR, until the playoffs began, due to their being no salary cap in the playoffs. The Bolts ended up being $18 million over the cap during the playoffs, and it led to a lot of criticism, which Kucherov openly mocked:

.kucherov over cap publicity ?? Wtf..... pic.twitter.com/0gXrdKrQFq� Lachajean (@Lachajean1) July 12, 2021

Now the Boston Bruins are in the same dilemma as they currently have Taylor Hall on LTIR, who is apparently healthy and ready to go, but the Bruins cannot take him off of LTIR due do to not having the cap space.

Sources say that he [Hall] feels that he is ready. The problem is the Bruins don't have the cap space to activate Taylor Hall.

Dreger here: "Sources say that he [Hall] feels that he is ready. The problem is the Bruins don't have the cap space to activate Taylor Hall." https://t.co/TvyOgNDQnW� Scott McLaughlin (@smclaughlin9) March 28, 2023

Hall is having a fairly good season, providing some secondary scoring for the Bruins. He currently has 16 goals and 36 points in 58 games, and will be very valuable come playoff time.