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Originally Posted by CalgaryFan1988
Why is Kylington allowed on IR, but not LTIR? I admittedly don't understand the whole injury Reserve thing. Would the Flames not save a lot more cap if he was on LTIR?
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Flames could I think - I think they have chosen not to for cap management purposes.
With the way the cap works with daily accrual they would be able to add a $5M player near the deadline.
If they add the player at $5M before the deadline, and then are right against the cap, I think they could then put Kylington on LTIR then and be able to go over the cap by the $2.5M of his salary (potentially allowing them to add another player).
But if they put Kylington on LTIR right now then they couldn't accrue cap space and the max they could exceed the cap by was $2.5M all season.
Flames seem to be doing everything they can to avoid going into LTIR so they can continue to accrue cap.