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The simplest solution is just to declare that your total on-ice salary, prorated to an 82 game season, can’t exceed the cap in any individual game, playoff or otherwise.

EDIT: similar to IronMaiden above, but make it so that if a team like Vegas wants to pick up an extra 6M player to cover for a 6M player on LTIR and that LTIR player returns in the playoffs, then they have the option of playing either of them throughout the playoffs, but wouldn’t be able to play both in one game (unless they scratch 6M elsewhere).