Sportsnet: Chris Johnston on the NHL monitoring teams’ use of the LTIR as 17 of the 31 teams are using the LTIR salary cap pool.
“I think what the league is saying is ‘we’re going to watch you closely. We can request medical records if we think there’s any funny business, cap circumvention, that kind of thing going on here. I think especially any players activated just for Game 1 of the playoffs, there will be Spockian eyebrow raised from the league and that’s something they intend to enforce quite forcefully.”