Mark Stone, the captain of Vegas, may be the most valuable player on the Golden Knights, if only because his extended absences due to injuries free up cap space for the team.
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It’s obviously unfair.
It’s unfair in the same manner that Wayne Gretzky’s NHL rights were originally acquired by the Edmonton Oilers without The Great One having to go through the entry draft.
It was unfair in the same sense that St. Louis once advanced to three straight Stanley Cup finals due to NHL owners having expanded the league from six to twelve teams in 1967 and placing all of the new teams in one division. Experts in their fields.
Therefore, it is unjust to permit teams in the modern NHL to compete in the postseason with greatly inflated payrolls by deftly utilizing long-term injury regulations. Not quite the “sound system” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly previously described it to be, it’s actually more of a running joke.
But be aware, people: this is a league with a track record of making other leagues seem like Einsteins by going with the flow and taking things by surprise. There are already several regulations in place in the Professional Women’s Hockey League that most people believe would make sense in the NHL.
