Once the season starts, you can put Smid or Dupuis on LTIR, but not before. Which means both teams will need to be under the cap at the "official" start of the season before they can move those players to LTIR.
Which means, Pittsburgh will probably need to make some paper transactions and move guys down to the minors until the season starts.
Like others have said, the whole way LTIR works is kind of broken. I'd love to see it fixed in the next CBA.
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