Kelly McCrimmon: ‘Ridiculous To Suggest’ VGK Are Faking Injuries

Kelly McCrimmon: ‘Ridiculous To Suggest’ VGK Are Faking Injuries

16 teams are using LTIR right now. I’m going to repeat that so you can further process that in your mind before we get to the point. 167 teams are using LTIR right now. Apparently, one team is somehow cheating and that’s the Vegas Golden Knights. That’s what the losers who do nothing but complain and cry because they never faced adversity in their life want you to believe. VGK general manager Kelly McCrimmon stated the obvious. It’s ridiculous to suggest the players on the team are faking these injuries.

"It's ridiculous to suggest that these weren't or aren't significant injuries."
#VegasBorn GM Kelly McCrimmon responds to criticism of the team's use of LTIR with @JeffMarek. pic.twitter.com/bILovCaAJQ

— Sportsnet 590 The FAN (@FAN590) March 11, 2024

“Google ‘lacerated spleen’ and see if you can tell when a player is going to be back,” he told “The Jeff Marek Show,” referring to the ailment that’s sidelined captain Mark Stone since late February. “It’s ridiculous to suggest that these weren’t significant injuries or aren’t significant injuries.

“Furthermore, the National Hockey League polices all of this. The rules are the rules, the NHL watches this very carefully.”

“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.”

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McCrimmon also went into detail about Mark Stone specifically and the job behind replacing his money.

“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.”

Cry all you want but this guy has balls and does whatever it takes to win. If you don’t respect that you’re a loser. Keep this in mind. Tomas Hertl wasn’t in the rumor mill at all. Nobody leaked that until the last minute. That’s a professional at work.

In reality, if you’re complaining about the Golden Knights today it’s because your favorite team didn’t pull off what Vegas continues to do. Ken Holland could never pull something like this off and that’s just the truth.

The repeat is on. End of blog.

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