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Originally Posted by devo22
once you have a player on LTIR, you can go slightly over the cap and replace him with another player. However, this replacement can't have a bigger cap hit than the injured player ... and Hagelin has a 2.25m cap hit. They could instead put Callahan on LTIR, but he is apparently a lot closer to returning than Hagelin. If they sign Stepan before LTIR kicks in, they avoid this issue: they're slightly over the cap once Stepan signs, but then assigning Hagelin to LTIR frees up 2.25m that they could spend on a replacement. Confusing, I know. A good explanation of the issue can be found here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/ran...orks-cap-expla |
Interesting... but couldn't they simply waive their $762,500 in bonuses to next year's salary cap and have ~$3.5M free space to sign Stephan at any time?