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Originally Posted by Zoller
From what I understood if we are at the cap limit when we put Smid on LTIR we get all of his contract in cap relief. It would just be a matter of shuffling bodies around to get to the top of the cap at the start of the season. Doesn't seem so difficult.
I fail to see the benefit of losing assets when we don't have to.
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With LTIR, you can only replace the value of the contract at any moment in time and you don't accumulate any unused cap space for later. If you have real cap space, you can use the full value of that space at any time to acquire the remaining portion of a player's salary, so it essentially gains value as the season progresses.
If you have $3 million in LTIR space to start the season, you can only ever use that to add $3 million in contracts over the season. If you have $3 million in actual cap space at the start of the season and don't use it, you could add about $12 million in contract value at the deadline (when there's only about 25% of the season left).