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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Would somebody please explain what Grossman's signing and wavering had to do with LTIR relief on Smid's contract?.
Dummy terms would be great.
Thanks
Signed dummy
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When a player gets put on LTIR, their contract continues to count against the salary cap. However, what the LTIR move does is allow you to exceed the cap by a portion of the injured player's AAV. The closer the team roster is to the cap ceiling, the more the team can exceed the cap.
Say the Flames were $2M short of the cap when they placed Smid on LTIR. His contract is for $3.5M. Thus the Flames could only exceed the cap by ($3.5M - $2M = $1.5M) $1.5M during the season.
The Grossmann signing brought the Flames total cap hit to $72,991,734. Just $8,266 under the cap. Thus, when the Flames placed Smid on LTIR, the Flames can now exceed the cap by ($3.5M - $8,266) = $3,491,734.
The Flames didn't have another player in the system that could have been called up to get close to the cap. The cheapest contract prior to Grossmann was Tom McCollum at $612,500. That contract still would have put the Flames over the cap. By signing Grossman to a $575K contract, they got as close as possible to the cap. Without the signing, the Flames would only get to exceed the cap by $2,916,734.