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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3897257, member: 1969"] I'm not that upset with it to be honest and its not really an $18M advantage over others -- its closer to $8-$10 M advantage. But I now many are upset by it with some justiication. Many teams used the LTIR to their advantage when they can near season end-- and when you add in trades that occur at deadlines where you only get a portion of the contract for the year quite a few playoff teams are close to $5-$10 million over the cap at the start of the playoffs if you compare their total player salaries at the beginning of the playoffs to the cap line. The Islanders are well over the cap after the injury to Anders Lee allowed them to add some players. Obviously the excess is Kucherov. But he was legitimately hurt and would have been on LTIR or at least 75% of the season. Of course not bringing him back for the last 25% of the year helped them keep a player of about $3-$4 million annual salary. [/QUOTE]