Jordin Tootoo has had a successful post-NHL career as an author, writing My Life on the Ice in 2014, and has followed up with a second book called Mind Over Matter.
A page out of his new book is going viral, though, as it reveals what many suspects happen in the NHL. The story that Tootoo tells is how he didn't want to be sent down to the Minors, so he asked to be placed on LTIR. The Blackhawks, the team he was playing for at the time, only requested an MRI to be done to do so, and didn't talk to him the rest of the season.
This doesn't come as a massive surprise to anyone who is a hockey fan, as it seemed to be that teams would take advantage of LTIR to put themselves in a better position. While in this case, it was to simply allow Tootoo to stay with his family, it does open up questions about whether the Blackhawks were doing similar things to avoid the Cap limit.
