Really slanted trades for Montreal. So the Vegas moves down in the draft what 20 places for no reason.

they get out from underneath clarksons cap issues. look at LTIR FAQ as it relates to salary cap

Weal is a RW Lehkonen LW, are you sure you're a habs fans > And what are those trade ? Every team reject

You're making stuff up. Clarkson is NOT a cap issue. 99% of the the time any LTIR does not affect a teams cap.

i've seen your trades and just didnt waste my time to respond.

Actually he is palhal (to a certain extent). LTIR doesn't solve all your problems and in some cases like this one in Vegas, it would be beneficial to move him out. Obviously if Vegas trades Pacioretty and Eakin and Miller tomorrow, then there's no worries but I have a feeling, they're trying to not move those players right now as they would be dealing from a point of weakness and certainly have to give up those guys for peanuts rather than their true value. Clarkson is dead cap no mater what way you look at it.

Moving Clarkson's contract gives them a little more time and flexibility to sign Karlsson and then start working on who else they would need to move out to get back under the cap before the season starts.

My trades makes sense for both team, you are way off. 1 year capdump doesnt bring you a 1st round pick. So your trade with Alzner, you got to send 3 1st round pick to OTT because he got 3 years remaining

Nope. It doesn't affect their flexbility at all. Gee the Leafs have Lupul, Horton and Rodibas almost 15m in LTIR money during the summer. Did not affect there ability to sign to the cap with "live" players during the summer.
Have a player on LTIR...especially permanent LTIR, may affect when the team can pay their performance bonus.
Even if was a concern, Ottawa or others has of cap and certainly wouldn't demand a such a big premium

Cap is ~82M
10% cushion makes it ~90M
Vegas right now has ~83M in cap
Vegas still needs to sign Karlsson @ 7M, Gusev @ 3M, Engelend @ 1M, Subban @ 1M

Their cap will be well over 90M at that point.

This stuff is pretty complicated so I won't pretend to be an expert but during the season, Vegas is allowed to exceed the salary cap by 5.25M max due to LTIR. During the offseason though, they can only exceed the salary cap by the difference between the LTIR saving and the bonus cushion of 10%, not the 10% and then the 5.25M from the LTIR. Meaning they can't sign everybody until they move out salary. That's why I said, if they trade a guy like Eakin right now for a 7th rounder, they could be potentially fine to sign everyone (I don't know for a fact I would have to recalculate) and then start working on the rest of the players they'd have to ship out to fit under the cap when the 10$ bonus cushion is removed.

@CapFriendly - Can one of you guys refute/validate this? This seems to be a common mistake that people make around here but then we hear contradictory reports that wouldn't make sense given what we think we know and being that the salary cap is extremely complicated, I'd like to squash this one so I can pass on the right information going forward.

tldr - why would Vegas need to trade Clarksons contract if they can just use LTIR to give themselves the additional exceeding of the cap they would need to sign all their pending RFA's and UFA's?

Where does it say its for "live players"? And if that's the case, Clarksons LTIR only lets Vegas exceed the 82M cap by his 5.25M cap. Not the 82M plus the 10% cushion and then the 5.25M LTIR on top of that. If there was no 10% cushion, Vegas could only spend another (Cap ceiling + LTIR = 87M. They are at 83 now so that leaves them 4M) The add the + 10% cushion gives them another 3M because that brings it up to 90M total. 90 - 83 equals 7M to sign karlsson and the rest of the gang.

If you think LTIR is included in the 83m and 10%...so be it.