The second-round draft picks are safe.

<a href="https://x.com/MLarkinHockey/status/1965461923773952245">According to Daily Faceoff&#8217;s Matt Larkin</a>, the NHL&#8217;s deputy commissioner, Bill Daly, confirmed on Tuesday that the league&#8217;s investigation into the Edmonton Oilers&#8217; use of the Long-Term Injured Reserve has been closed, and that the team won&#8217;t be handed any punishment for wrongdoing.
<blockquote>“I would say we&#8217;ve closed the book on last season,&#8221; Daly told Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic on Tuesday. &#8220;And obviously we&#8217;ve done this every year, right? We look into the situations of players who are going to finish the season on LTIR and who might become available early in the playoffs.</blockquote>
Back in April, the Oilers were among the teams <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/edmonton-oilers-evander-kane-scrutinized-nhl-long-term-injured-reserve">scrutinized by the NHL</a> for LTIR usage as the playoffs began.
Evander Kane had been sidelined for the entirety of the regular season after undergoing multiple surgeries, then joined the team following Game 1 of their first-round series against the Kings. The winger scored two goals and three points in five games as Edmonton took down Los Angeles in six. He finished the playoffs with six goals and 12 points in 21 games.
The investigation continued even <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/nhl-continues-investigation-edmonton-oilers-ltir-evander-kane">after the Oilers fell to the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final</a>. Frank Seravalli reported back in June that &#8220;there is the potential for retroactive punishment if the league finds the spirit of the CBA was violated&#8221; by Edmonton using Kane in the playoffs after not having him count against their salary cap during the regular season.
<blockquote>&#8220;Evander was one of many individuals we looked at last year, and it was a close one, right?&#8221; Daly added. &#8220;It was a close one as to whether he was capable of playing at the end of the season and didn&#8217;t. And we were concerned that if that were the circumstance, in case it may be a circumvention of the salary cap, and we made the Oilers aware of that. I think Evander did not play the first game of the playoffs, but he played the second game of the playoffs. So, in any event, it&#8217;s a closed matter. No repercussions.&#8221;</blockquote>
The 33-year-old Kane landed on the LTIR ahead of the regular season after <a class="text-accent" href="https://oilersnation.com/news/early-feeling-on-oilers-evander-kanes-recovery-from-surgery-carries-four-to-six-month-timeline">undergoing surgery in September</a> to repair two torn hip adductor muscles, two hernias, and two lower abdominal muscle tears. He was expected to remain on the shelf recovering into late March, but that timeline changed when the winger <a class="text-accent" href="https://oilersnation.com/news/oilers-winger-evander-kane-undergoes-knee-surgery-causing-him-to-pause-abdominal-surgery-recovery">underwent knee surgery in early January</a>.
With Kane on the LTIR, the Oilers added <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/edmonton-oilers-acquire-jake-walman-from-san-jose-sharks">Jake Walman from the Sharks</a> and <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/oilers-acquire-trent-frederic-max-jones-from-bruins-in-three-team-trade">Trent Frederic from the Bruins</a> ahead of the trade deadline. Walman played a major role on Edmonton&#8217;s blueline down the stretch, while Frederic was held to just one regular-season tune-up game before the playoffs because of an injury suffered before the trade.
Though it might seem at a glance like the team capitalized on having Kane on the LTIR to load up their roster ahead of the playoffs, they never actually used the entirety of the $5.125 million bonus cushion they had available. Seravalli noted back in June that general manager Stan Bowman turned away from multiple opportunities to leverage that cushion.
<blockquote>&#8220;GM Stan Bowman could have used that space to match the St. Louis Blues’ offer sheets for Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg last August, or to trade for their replacements. In fact, when Edmonton traded for Trent Frederic in a three-team deal on March 4, they paid for the New Jersey Devils and Boston Bruins to each retain half on Frederic’s deal, which would have allowed them enough cap space to still activate Kane in the regular season. It wasn’t until they announced the Kane would be unable to return and traded for defenseman Jake Walman that they used up the space created by Kane on LTIR.&#8221;</blockquote>
Teams icing a playoff roster well above the regular-season salary cap ceiling has been a problem in the past, with the Panthers, Golden Knights, and Lightning among the Cup Champs to be criticized for hiding players on the LTIR.
The league&#8217;s solution is a <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/nhl-notebook-playoff-salary-cap-being-implemented-this-season">playoff salary cap</a>, which is among the early parts of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement being rolled out this season. Under the new rule, clubs will have to keep their playoff roster under a defined cap number rather than there being no upper limit after the conclusion of the regular season.

Edmonton Oilers Evander Kane L.A. Kings Darcy Kuemper

The second-round draft picks are safe.



<a href="https://x.com/MLarkinHockey/status/1965461923773952245">According to Daily Faceoff's Matt Larkin</a>, the NHL's deputy commissioner, Bill Daly, confirmed on Tuesday that the league's investigation into the Edmonton Oilers' use of the Long-Term Injured Reserve has been closed, and that the team won't be handed any punishment for wrongdoing.
<blockquote>“I would say we've closed the book on last season," Daly told Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic on Tuesday. "And obviously we've done this every year, right? We look into the situations of players who are going to finish the season on LTIR and who might become available early in the playoffs.</blockquote>
Back in April, the Oilers were among the teams <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/edmonton-oilers-evander-kane-scrutinized-nhl-long-term-injured-reserve">scrutinized by the NHL</a> for LTIR usage as the playoffs began.

Evander Kane had been sidelined for the entirety of the regular season after undergoing multiple surgeries, then joined the team following Game 1 of their first-round series against the Kings. The winger scored two goals and three points in five games as Edmonton took down Los Angeles in six. He finished the playoffs with six goals and 12 points in 21 games.

The investigation continued even <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/nhl-continues-investigation-edmonton-oilers-ltir-evander-kane">after the Oilers fell to the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final</a>. Frank Seravalli reported back in June that "there is the potential for retroactive punishment if the league finds the spirit of the CBA was violated" by Edmonton using Kane in the playoffs after not having him count against their salary cap during the regular season.
<blockquote>"Evander was one of many individuals we looked at last year, and it was a close one, right?" Daly added. "It was a close one as to whether he was capable of playing at the end of the season and didn't. And we were concerned that if that were the circumstance, in case it may be a circumvention of the salary cap, and we made the Oilers aware of that. I think Evander did not play the first game of the playoffs, but he played the second game of the playoffs. So, in any event, it's a closed matter. No repercussions."</blockquote>
The 33-year-old Kane landed on the LTIR ahead of the regular season after <a class="text-accent" href="https://oilersnation.com/news/early-feeling-on-oilers-evander-kanes-recovery-from-surgery-carries-four-to-six-month-timeline">undergoing surgery in September</a> to repair two torn hip adductor muscles, two hernias, and two lower abdominal muscle tears. He was expected to remain on the shelf recovering into late March, but that timeline changed when the winger <a class="text-accent" href="https://oilersnation.com/news/oilers-winger-evander-kane-undergoes-knee-surgery-causing-him-to-pause-abdominal-surgery-recovery">underwent knee surgery in early January</a>.

With Kane on the LTIR, the Oilers added <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/edmonton-oilers-acquire-jake-walman-from-san-jose-sharks">Jake Walman from the Sharks</a> and <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/oilers-acquire-trent-frederic-max-jones-from-bruins-in-three-team-trade">Trent Frederic from the Bruins</a> ahead of the trade deadline. Walman played a major role on Edmonton's blueline down the stretch, while Frederic was held to just one regular-season tune-up game before the playoffs because of an injury suffered before the trade.

Though it might seem at a glance like the team capitalized on having Kane on the LTIR to load up their roster ahead of the playoffs, they never actually used the entirety of the $5.125 million bonus cushion they had available. Seravalli noted back in June that general manager Stan Bowman turned away from multiple opportunities to leverage that cushion.
<blockquote>"GM Stan Bowman could have used that space to match the St. Louis Blues’ offer sheets for Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg last August, or to trade for their replacements. In fact, when Edmonton traded for Trent Frederic in a three-team deal on March 4, they paid for the New Jersey Devils and Boston Bruins to each retain half on Frederic’s deal, which would have allowed them enough cap space to still activate Kane in the regular season. It wasn’t until they announced the Kane would be unable to return and traded for defenseman Jake Walman that they used up the space created by Kane on LTIR."</blockquote>
Teams icing a playoff roster well above the regular-season salary cap ceiling has been a problem in the past, with the Panthers, Golden Knights, and Lightning among the Cup Champs to be criticized for hiding players on the LTIR.

The league's solution is a <a href="https://oilersnation.com/news/nhl-notebook-playoff-salary-cap-being-implemented-this-season">playoff salary cap</a>, which is among the early parts of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement being rolled out this season. Under the new rule, clubs will have to keep their playoff roster under a defined cap number rather than there being no upper limit after the conclusion of the regular season.

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