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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Question: How does LITR work in Buffalo's situation? They're $7,966,667 under the floor right now, with Eichel's $10m on LITR. Does that mean as soon as they trade him, they go to $2,033,333 above the floor, or is there only a % of Eichel's LITR hit subtracted from their cap?
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LTIR is never subtracted from the cap, it's only shown that way on the sites that show these things to make it easier for people to understand.
For the official cap calculations, the player's full contract value counts as part of the team's cap payroll. The only thing that LTIR space does is allow the team exceed the cap up to the amount of the injured player's cap hit.
If a team is under the cap, they won't put the player on LTIR because there is no actual relief.
On CapFriendly, they aren't showing Buffalo using any LTIR room. They're almost $8 million below the floor with his $10 million cap hit included. If they trade him away, they're going to need to add a lot of salary just to reach the floor.