Frederick Anderson has been injured with a lower body injury for a long time now. So long, in fact, that he's taken to rollerblading with his buddies while he waits around.
What's the hold-up of inserting him back into the roster? Cap issues, of course. Justine Bourne from Sportsnet even writes today "It also seems quite likely that they’ve asked him to “rest” as long as conceivably possible (right until playoffs?) for salary cap purposes, and that him agreeing to do so likely came with some sort of guarantee of not losing the net." https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/analyzing-torontos-turbulent-goaltending-means-playoffs/
Meanwhile, four days ago, Sportsnet writes about how the NHL will closely monitor teams taking advantage of LTIR cap advantages, with Sportsnet's Chris Johnston saying "I think what the league is saying is 'we're going to watch you closely. We can request medical records if we think there's any funny business, cap circumvention, that kind of thing going on here. .. I think especially any players activated just for Game 1 of the playoffs, there will be Spockian eyebrow raised from the league and that's something they intend to enforce quite forcefully." https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nhl-closely-monitor-teams-taking-advantage-ltir-cap-advantages/
So why isn't this a bigger deal for the Leafs? It's so obvious, their own media fan-club is writing about how they're taking advantage, and not one media person is calling them out on it. Meanwhile, Anderson keeps on rollerblading on....
What do you think about it?