Vegas Golden Knights could be in trouble - are they breaking the rules?

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S. Harper
April 13, 2022 (9:29 PM)

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It's looks like the Vegas Golden knights General Manager Kelly McCrimmon could be in trouble. On Tuesday the Knights added their captain Mark Stone to the roster after being out with an injury since February 8th.

The Golden Knights had to make some moves being up against the salary cap so they had move William Carrier, Nolan Patrick and Laurent Brossoit all to the Long-term injury reserve to fit enough cap space to activate Stone.

However Daily face-off shared some interesting stats believing,:

"The Golden knights could be cheating the Long Term Injury moves."
- Daily face-off

They compare what the Golden Knights are doing to what the Tampa Bay Lightning did with forward Nikita Kucherov. Matt Larkin and Scott Burnside of Daily face-off are wondering if the Golden Knights are cheating to bring players in exploiting the long-term injury reserve rule.

«It's not exploiting, assuming those players are actually injured. And you have to wonder, is management in Los Angeles, Dallas, Nashville, all of the teams fighting for one of those couple of playoff spots, how do they feel about this move? You have to trust that the NHL does what it always says it does in these situations, which is to watch very closely what the medical issues are that surround these players that were conveniently put on the LTIR. To me, it's the timing that brings up the issue for people, it's a natural reaction because the convenience to get Mark Stone back in the lineup can't be ignored,» - Scott Burnside

While what they have done is technically allowed under the rulebook, but if any of these players are actually healthy enough to play it's definitely against the rules.

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