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Quick Strikes: NHL announces an update to the rules

Welcome to 2019 NHL Draft day! Let’s get to the news.

The Tampa Bay Lightning have announced that Ryan Callahan has a degenerative back disease and he will be placed on Long-Term Injured Reserve for next season, his final season under contract. This is both a really crappy way for Cally to end his heroic career for a myriad of reasons, as well as a convenient way to alleviate some of their salary cap issues. Both can be true and both are true. [Raw Charge]

While it has been clear that his time with the Lightning was coming to an end, this is definitely not the way you’d like to see a player like Callahan end his career.