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Originally Posted by stemit14
Does anyone know if there is any salary cap benefit to waiting till the season starts before acquiring eichel? My understanding is that every team has to be under the cap on day one of the regular season before it can put players on LTIR.
In that case, Buffalo could hold onto him until after day one of the regular season and then put him on LTIR. At which point they could trade him to a team without that team having to send back salary since he would remain on LTIR (as long as the team would be over the salary cap if he were not on LTIR).
It would only be temporary as he would eventually come off LTIR but a team could pull a kucherov with him and not have to give up roster players. The team could keep everyone on their current roster and worry about making cap space for him later (either later in the season or in the offseason if he’s not healthy until playoffs).
Is this a possibility or am I wrong about how the LTIR cap relief would work?
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I can't think of any players who were traded while on LTIR, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work that way. Something like that would almost be like trading cap space, which is not allowed.
Also, right now, Buffalo is nowhere close to the cap even with Eichel's $10 million accounted for, so they can't put him on LTIR to start the season. As it stands, they will need his $10 million cap hit just to reach the floor.
If a team is already using LTIR space, they might be able to wait until the final rosters are set and acquire him while putting him directly on LTIR, but I don't know if that would really be any better than acquiring him now.