This in from former Florida Panthers Asst. GM Steve Werier on the PDOcast with Thomas Drance, Werier’s description of a nuclear option some NHL teams will almost certainly use on under-producing veteran players in this year’s playoffs. I’ll suggest the nuclear option may even used in relation to high-price but low-productivity vets on the Oilers in coming playoffs years. Article content

Under the NHL new rules, all teams must now be cap compliant every game in the playoffs, just as they have been for years now every game in the regular season. This means a team like Florida can’t pick up high-price players near the deadline, with Seth Jones and Brad Marchand coming on board last season because Matthew Tkachuk was injured at the end of the season and the Panthers had his free salary slot

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