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Originally Posted by Demzy84
But at the deadline, teams make trades and still have to be under the salary cap. So why would that change? To me, only impacts teams who have players sitting on LTIR that they are waiting to move off once the regular season ends.
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If you have $2 million of cap space all year, you can acquire an $8 million player at the deadline. The Flames have essentially done this by banking some cap space without using LTIR.
IMO the easy answer is that the AAV of the lineup you dress for every playoff game needs to be under the regular season cap. Still gives lots of wiggle room and ability to make trades but stops teams from icing a $90 million lineup.