Vegeta Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) after the david clarkson trade I was left wondering why would a cap strapped team would acquire a ltir players. After some diggin I think I got it down So the Capceiling is 81.5m ltir bonus is additive to the Hard cap not deductive to your own cap, meaning a team that is not spending to the cap gets 0 releif from placing a guy on ltir, but a Team that sits at the cap lets say right on it at 81.5m and a 10m player gets hurt they now have a 91.5m Hard cap ( until player is activated). what it changes is this. exemple 1) say toronto had 2m in space with marner unsigned and they wanted to sign him. they would have to put horton right away on ltir so you take horton cap hit of 5.3m you substract the 2m in space they already had and you end up with a real 3.3m in space or if you prefer you can now spend up to 81.5 +3.3 = 84.8m . exemple 2) say toronto had exactly 5.25 in cap space before the clarkson trade ( lets ignore sparks) Now they sit at right on the 81.5m limit they can now put them both on LTIR and spend up to 81.5+10.55 = 92.05m so the big picture here is you only get bonus cap space of the actual amount your over the cap reguardless of the player cap hit. in theorie a team that is not against the cap say ottawa, and their full roster goes on ltir at the same time you actually get no bonus Edited July 24, 2019 by Vegeta 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 Super interesting. Thanks for posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta Posted July 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) I felt tsn and sportsnet knew WHY did they the trade but didnt know HOW it actually worked . At least they were super vague about it hopefully i got it right. The capwise implication is now you understand why some team dont put player on ltir ( screweing up our ir flag situation. They either dont need the space or are banking on adding up to their team and will wait to get max value out of ltir bonus Edited July 24, 2019 by Vegeta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta Posted July 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 Ithink the"easy" explanation is: (player cap hit going onto ltir ) - (your room under the cap) = ltir bonus over the cap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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