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When you trade for a player on IR, you add his cap hit to the team, so their cap amount goes up. When you place the player on LTIR, the teams cap doesn’t go up, it isn’t relief. The amount the cap changes is complicated, and the term “pools” is used. There are two types of “pools”, but basically, each day the team is above the $81.5MM cap limit, that exceeded amount is withdrawn from the pools. So the team cap is not raised, and there isn’t extra cap for other players. The exceeded amount is actually the LTIR players cap hit that went over the cap limit.
If a team trades for Zetterberg, they must add his $6.083MM to their cap, immediately. Then if the team goes over the $81.5MM, then the team gets to use the pools for Zetterbergs cap hit, not other players. There’s no benefit to trading for an injured player unless you have an unsigned RFA, but that’s another situation altogether.