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Originally Posted by jayswin
But I thought they could have put him on LTIR but didn't end up having a need to? LTIR isn't something you just use to open up cap space in case you need it. It allows you to exceed the cap by the injured player's cap hit.
So for example if the Flames became buyers at the deadline, where up against the cap and knew Kylington wasn't coming back, then they could put him on LTIR and bring in player that costs the same Kylingtons cap hit at the time.
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Was it ever confirmed they COULD have put him on ltir if they wanted to? I understand you wouldn't use it unless you wanted to add something that would have otherwise put you over the cap.
So we know they didn't put him on LTIR and didn't add something (because obviously they couldn't exceed the cap). But given how "all-in" Tre went this season it doesn't seem impossible that he would have used that space if it was available to him.