Joffrey Lupul to go on LTIR: report

The Toronto Maple Leafs will have been told today, a few hours before their final roster is due, that Joffrey Lupul can be placed on LTIR for the final year of his contract.

If you believe the league is corrupt, doctors lie, and this is all a conspiracy to help a rich team cheat, you can still believe that. You just need to assume a few more people are in on it.

If you believe that Lupul is physically unfit to play, you have more people agreeing with you.

For me, now as always, I think it’s a grey area, not a clean line, and it’s a hard call to make. Is he fit to play at all? Maybe. At NHL level? How would I know? And how do you decide that?

The end result is that the Leafs now have the…