Vegas GM Slams Back at Rumors About Faking Injuries

"Last year ... we acquired Ivan Barbashev, Jonathan Quick, and Teddy Blueger (at the deadline)," McCrimmon said. "I would suggest to you we probably could have acquired all three players without Mark Stone's LTIR. This year, it happened that there were opportunities available to use that space, so that's what we did.


"The flip side is to have $9.5 million of LTIR space as a general manager and sit on your hands, and I don't think that's doing our job the way that we should."

"LTIR is collectively bargained between the Players' Association and the NHL," he said. "The idea behind it is, if you have a player suffer a significant injury, you can replace that player. Obviously from there, it's the timing of injuries."
Fans have grown suspicion as it has been the third year in a row that Vegas' captain Mark Stone has been placed on LTIR weeks before the trade deadline.


Obviously, Kelly McCrimmon insists that the injury is serious.

Curious to know if the NHL will be switching up the famous LTIR rule after all the drama it has stirred.