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Originally Posted by flamesgod
The problem I have with that solution is, let’s say you’re a team that left a 2 million dollar buffer at the start of the season, you’d be able to add a big contract or two at the deadline. Only if you changed the rules, you wouldn’t be able to, because come playoffs, it’d add up to more than the salary cap figure. It would also basically end the trade deadline deals.
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You would just need to build in a buffer where teams that have saved up cap space would have more room to be compliant in the playoffs. If a team had $10 million in cap space at the deadline (without using LTIR), their playoff roster could exceed the cap by $10 million.
Or, they could have a player's playoff cap hit be equal to whatever counted against that team's cap space during the regular season. If a player with an $8 million cap hit was traded with 25% of the season remaining, his cap hit for the purpose of playoff compliance would only be $2 million.