Once we can finally get rid of some of the truly welfare teams (Zona to Houston, etc), it might be possible to add a dollar for dollar luxury tax or at the least a different way of calculating the cap that allows additional cap flexibility. Because yeah, this system that incentivizes this type of fuckery is kind of dumb. It's bad for fringe/young players as they are liable to spend a lot of the season "with" the NHL club but being paid their AHL salary because they've been paper shuffled to the AHL club to save a couple of bucks on the cap.
Actually maybe not - he only had 34 in year two so the best round number streak he could have is 30gl seasons....which he's a shoo-in to get to as well.
think they said he's got 18 in his last 16 games. crazy stuff. and yes, it sucks that covid is happening right smack in McDavid/Matthews/etc statistical prime seasons. actually sucks for Ovy as well, honestly.