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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
can we LTIR stone and bring up Phillips?
if edmonton can just decide Smith is LTIR qualified when he never got hurt then can't we
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In theory yes… but LTIR has implications on two things:
1. The amount of games that Stone will have to miss. He will have to miss at least 10 games and 24 days.
2. The amount of cap space you will have for the trade deadline will be reduced significantly.
In our case, I’m pretty sure that Stone is expected back before the 10 games pass.
In addition, the way LTIR works, you want to be as close to the cap as possible when you place a player on LTIR. Before the call ups the Flames had about $1.3M in cap space, since it’s higher than Stone’s cap hit LTIR would’ve given the Flames exactly 0 additional cap space. Currently, we have $75k of cap space so placing Stone’s $750k on LTIR will allow us to exceed the cap by $675k while he is injured.