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Originally Posted by Canada 02
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Thanks for posting this. This is exactly what I was trying to get at. There should be a mechanism to remove the cap hit for a player who misses a whole contract year because of a personal matter, and it shouldn't be related to LTIR. It's good to know that this indeed appears to be the case.
I still wonder if the cap relief would be retroactive back to game 1, or would they just make it from the time a return this season was ruled out. If it was retroactive, $2.5 million accrued over a whole season would allow for some substantial flexibility.