Insider Trading: Major topics discussed on Day 2 of the NHL GM meetings

A month out from this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs and we're looking back at last year's playoffs - specifically Nikita Kucherov missing the entire regular season and then being a star for the Lightning in the post-season. Lots of significant discussions on that front.

Pierre LeBrun: And certainly not any discussions that led to any rules changes, because at the end of the day, that's a broader discussion. But the takeaway is that the discussion is not dead. Ken Holland of the Edmonton Oilers is the general manager that tabled this discussion on LTIR and a potential playoff cap. And the decision is to have this discussion again at the draft in Montreal in July - that perhaps there are ways to tweak this. And NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly afterwards said that he's already had discussions with the NHLPA about this. I think one of the other things we can also ascertain here is that there's been a lot of white noise around Vegas and how they've treated the LTIR this year. Last year was Tampa, this year is Vegas, at least in perception. Gary Bettman and Bill Daly could not be any more unequivocal in saying Vegas has been transparent, there's no issues in how they're handling their LTIR business - there you go.

Darren Dreger: Bettman flat out said that it's not a huge problem. In fact, he called it a "perceptional issue" around National Hockey League media perhaps, certainly the fan base. But it is something that is going to have to be worked with the National Hockey League Players' Association. All of this is contained within the CBA. So if you go to the Players' Association and say, "Look, we have to make an amendment here, because there might be - at least the perception of - a competitive imbalance" in the playoffs,