Vegas' loophole is Cap circumvention. Well so is the cap penalty over 10 teams are going to get. In both cases it has been said no one did anything wrong, but the NHL is not using the same logic.
The biggest difference is Vegas is over, using an extra 9.5 to 10 million. Which is about 5 times more than what the worst offender has used.
My take is this is another ridiculous example of the league playing favorites again. They let Tampa and Vegas ( Vegas 3X) subvert the cap, while 10 plus teams, many NOT in the playoffs, will be held to a different standard and have a cap penalty.
Cliff Notes bottomline- if a team Bettman is not fond of did this I contend the loophole would be closed immediately! Think a team like Ottawa, that is all! I put it here because the NYR are one of the team's and it is wrong because the biggest "cheater/benefactor" will NEVER get any punishment. Vegas.