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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Yet I’ve seen “flames can’t call up x and had to call up y because they don’t have the cap space” posted numerous times on this site.
So has the cap situation prevented the flames from calling up who they want or not?
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It's because of the weird way LTIR cap space is calculated. Basically, once you start using LTIR, they take the amount of cap space you have at that time and subtract that from the injured player's cap hit to determine how much you can exceed the cap by during his injury.
So, if you have $1 million in cap space and put an injured player with a cap hit of $2.5 million on LTIR, you can only exceed the cap by $1.5 million while he's on LTIR; but if you had $100,000 in cap space in that situation, you could exceed the cap by $2.4 million.
When they needed to recall 2 d-men, Gilbert and DeSimon have a combined cap hit of $1.525 million and the Flames had just enough cap space to still be under the cap with them on the roster. Meloche and either of the other 2 would have a combined cap hit of $1.7125 million, which would have put them over the cap. That would have required them to use LTIR, but they wouldn't have been able to maximize their use of LTIR.
I don't fully understand all the consequences of that, but that's my understanding of why they didn't want to use LTIR to recall Meloche.