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There was still cap limits under the old CBA for LTIR. And again, if med students could prove using all available information about Stone's injury, why was there no investigation? If everything was good, why no information on the matter after the fact?
Kuch was subject to internal investigation, the same as Kane, and Bill Daley cleared their findings, Why did that not trigger any flags for Bettman then? Kuch was iced for game 1, Oilers got told if they did that they'd be searched and they didn't, why the search anyways? Why the investigation when both teams went through almost the exact same procedures?
Vegas iced a roster that wasn't even cap compliant, they were about 2 mil over under the CBA since they were playing Jonathan Quick. You also have to consider this, dead cap. If you want to critique the Oilers, part of their overages this past season were almost entirely from the Campbell buyout. You have to factor in for Vegas the 1.2 mil for Nolan Patrick, the 5 mil for Lehner, and 5.69 mil of Shea Weber's dead cap, which is entirely different from LTIR.
Vegas explicitly broke the rules by faking Stone's injury to some capacity. If you wanna say the Oilers did that for Kane, why not blame Vegas as well? Why not call for that investigation? If Kucherov's internal investigation and and medical reports were enough to clear him without suspicion, why did the rules need to change when Edmonton went through an identical process? A majority of Edmonton's 2 mil overage this past season was from Campbell's buyout, why is 18 mil not subject to the same level of scrutiny 2 is? Why was Vegas not scrutinized for over 14 mil of cap overages from buyouts, dead cap, and LTIR combined?
