Calling all CBA Pros - how much cap space for TDL

Équipe: 2018-19 Maple Leafs de Toronto

Date de création initiale: 18 janv. 2019

Publié: 18 janv. 2019

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Hoping to get a technical discussion going to see if we can figure out what cap space we have to work with at the deadline.

THINGS I KNOW:

1. Under no circumstances can we let performance bonuses for this year carried over to next year's cap

2. $3.7m is the conservative number for performance bonuses earned this year. Unless Par Lindholm turns into Pavel Bure or Ozhiganov turns into Paul Coffee, they aren't sniffing any performance bonus money. So that's $1.7m we can knock off the $5.4m figure that CapFriendly shows.

There's also a real possibility now that Matthews won't hit his Schedule A bonuses if he doesn't snap out of this funk. His $2m kicks in most likely if he's top 10 in points or goals per game. He's sitting 5th/7th in the per game columns currently.

3. Horton has not been placed on LTIR this season (nor has any other leaf)

4. I enjoy you guys

THINGS I THINK I KNOW:

1. If a team uses any kind of LTIR relief in the season that causes their average annual cap to exceed the cap limit of $79.5m, all performance bonuses will get carried over onto the next year's cap

2. The Leaf's projected cap hit is $73,962,231 according to this website

3. We need to add last year's bonuses ($2.55m) and account for the $3.7m in this year's bonuses...which already puts us over the $79.5m ceiling. Does this mean we're already in a position to carry some bonuses over?

THINGS THAT CONFUSE ME:
1. Does adding Horton to LTIR at any point this season automatically force us to pay all performance bonuses this year?

2. Do we realistically have ANY cap space to play with this year?

3. How to calculate any of the above