Rejoint: mars 2021
Messages: 11
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I'm trying to wrap my head around LTIR and teams going "over the cap" and I just wanted to sort this one out. If a player is injured for a period of time and they are exempt from the cap during their injury so if they're out 25% of the season and make $4m against the cap the team can now use $1m of that cap hit against another player. There are players who, like Marian Gaborik are effectively retired but still earning their salaries because they are technically out with injury. Those players will not be on a roster during a whole season so Gaborik's salary of $4.8m can be used in LTIR to offset his salary.
What someone was telling me was that Gaborik or players like him don't count against the cap AND their cap hit is used as LTIR. What am I missing here? This seems counter intuitive. Why doesn't every team in the league sign an injured player to a 14 million dollar deal keep him on LTIR and have a magical $14m extra to spend?