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Originally Posted by Weitz
Ah yah ok. That includes Ference who will be LTIR, so subtract 3.625.
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Not quite that easy as he still has to be paid. They have 2.4 cap space and his salary is 3.6, so they can exceed the cap by 1.2m. It is some sort of calculation that the NHL. Bottom line the 3.625 is not free cap space. Obviously that will change throughout the year.
http://www.fearthefin.com/2010/9/18/...ng-term-injury
In order to qualify for the LTIR, a player must be deemed to be unavailable for 24 days and 10 NHL games after the time of injury.
A team is allowed to exceed the salary cap Upper Limit by x amount after applying this formula: The cap hit of the injured player on LTIR
minus the amount of salary cap space
equals the amount that team can exceed the upper limit by.
And most importantly, a player on LTIR does not generate any extra cap room for the team. He does not come off the books, and will be factored into the calculations of the year-end salary cap of the team.